Grilled peach, onion, and avocado salad
Author Notes: In the most recent issue of Food & Wine I saw a recipe for charred sweet onions and peaches, and I thought, "Hey! I bet that would be good with avocados!" So I decided to give it a try. Except, in the process I wound up changing the dressing, and a bunch of the cooking technique, and wound up with something a bit different and extremely delicious. Although at first I was going to grill the avocado and bacon as well, in the end I decided I liked the flavors better with them raw and fried respectively. This salad - if you can quite call it that - tastes seriously of summer! - fiveandspice
Food52 Review: I whipped up fiveandspice’s green goddess-like dressing using my freshly made creme fraiche, as recommended here, and I will be slathering this dressing on all sorts of things this summer. You should too. The kids voted with their stomachs, and I’ll report both went back for seconds. Using a sweet onion is key. The grill times for the peaches and onion are right on and this results in a crunchy onion, which it needs to be as a contrast to the creamy peaches and avocado. I might add some more herbs to the actual salad mix and not just the dressing. I did not use all of the dressing; rather about 2/3 of it. All in all it was a hit here. - Summer of Eggplant
Serves 4-6
Creamy herb dressing
- 2 tablespoons Creme fraiche
- 2 tablespoons Greek yogurt
- 2 tablespoons Mayo
- 2 tablespoons apple cider vinegar
- 1 tablespoon fresh basil, finely chopped
- 1 tablespoon fresh cilantro, finely chopped
- 1 tablespoon chives, finely chopped
- sea salt
Avocado and peach salad
- 4-5 slices of thick center cut bacon
- 1 large sweet onion such as Vidalia or Walla Walla Sweet
- 3 small-medium peaches, ripe but not crazy soft
- 2 ripe avocados
- olive oil
- salt and pepper
- Whisk together all the dressing ingredients in a bowl adding salt to taste. Refrigerate until you're ready to use.
- Fry your bacon slices until crispy. Transfer to a paper towel line plate to drain. Cut into bite size pieces.
- Peel and slice the onion into 1-inch thick slices. Cut the peaches in half and remove the pits. Brush the onion slices and peach halves with olive oil and sprinkle with salt and pepper.
- Grill the onion slices and peaches over high heat until they are lightly charred and blistered on the outside and getting pretty tender. The onions should take about 10-12 minutes, the peaches about 5-7. Be sure to turn everything halfway through the cooking process to get them cooked on both sides.
- Slice the peaches into 1/2 inch thick slices. Peel, pit, and thinly slice the avocados. Break apart the onion slices into their individual rings. Arrange everything together, mixed, on a big serving platter. Sprinkle with the bacon, then drizzle with the dressing.
- Serve, passing any remaining dressing alongside.
- This recipe is a Community Pick!
- This recipe was entered in the contest for Your Best Avocados



11 months ago arielleclementine
i love everything about this! the combination of the dressing with some of my very favorite ingredients makes this a must-try for me. thanks for the recipe!
11 months ago fiveandspice
Emily is a trusted source on Scandinavian Cuisine.
Thanks so much Arielle! I do hope you give it a try!
11 months ago arielleclementine
i definitely will! especially after making my own creme fraiche for the first time last week- so easy and so much cheaper! congrats on the CP!
11 months ago sdebrango
Suzanne is a trusted source on General Cooking.
Really wonderful idea. I bet it tastes delicious.
11 months ago fiveandspice
Emily is a trusted source on Scandinavian Cuisine.
Thank you! We loved it! It's pretty rich though!
11 months ago hardlikearmour
hardlikearmour is a trusted home cook.
YUM! Summer!!!
11 months ago fiveandspice
Emily is a trusted source on Scandinavian Cuisine.
Hear hear!