Avocado Egg Salad (with Cottage Cheese)
This Avocado Egg Salad recipe has eggs, avocado, cottage cheese, celery, green onions, and the perfect lemony dressing. And this is a delicious variation on traditional egg salad that’s extra tasty, low in carbs, high in protein, and gluten-free!
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Avocado Egg Salad (with Cottage Cheese) was a recipe I loved from the very first bite! Amd even though I wasn’t always a big egg salad fan, I knew this was something I was going to make over and over. For sure it’s partly the flavors in my lemony dressing that made the this fun egg salad with avocado such a wow for me. If you’re an egg salad fan who likes lemon, avocados, and cottage cheese, I bet you’re going to love this recipe too!
I first made this when my brother Rand came to Utah for a visit. Back then he was a vegetarian, so I made the egg salad as something that would work for both a vegetarian houseguest (Rand) and a protein-obsessed salad eater (me), and we both loved the egg salad with avocado and cottage cheese. Rand ate his inside Joseph’s Low-Carb Pita Bread and I just ate mine plain.
And I was happy to discover that Avocado Egg Salad was still delicious after being in the fridge overnight! I don’t think it will keep for much longer than one night though, but I bet you won’t have much left over! I hope you enjoy trying it!
What ingredients do you need for this recipe?
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- boiled eggs
- cottage cheese
- sliced celery
- sliced green onions
- avocados
- fresh-squeezed lemon juice, I used my fresh-frozen lemon juice
- salt to taste, I used Vege-Sal (affiliate link)
- fresh-ground black pepper
- mayo
- Dijon Mustard (affiliate link) (or use any mustard you prefer)
- dried dill weed (affiliate link)
- Celery Seed (affiliate link)
How did I make the boiled eggs for Avocado Egg Salad?
I’m a fan of using an Egg Steamer (affiliate link) to make hard-cooked eggs, but check out my post about Perfect Hard-Boiled Eggs for several foolproof methods for cooking eggs that are easy to peel.
Why I rinse the cottage cheese for Avocado Egg Salad:
Frequently when I’m using cottage cheese to add protein to a recipe I rinse the cottage cheese and just use the curds to keep the finished dish from being too wet. But in many cases that is not 100% necessary, so if you don’t think you’ll mind egg salad that’s a bit more creamy, you can skip that step.
How low in carbs is the Avocado Egg Salad?
This delicious egg salad with avocado has 4.4 net carbs and 12 grams of protein per serving!
Want breakfast ideas with avocado?
If you’re looking for tasty breakfast recipes with avocado check out my collection of Avocado Breakfast Recipes.
How to Make Avocado Egg Salad (with Cottage Cheese):
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- I love my little Egg Steamer (affiliate link) for cooking eggs, so I used that to make six eggs. (Just use one of my methods for Perfect Hard-Boiled Eggs.)
- While the eggs cook and cool, rinse cottage cheese with cold water and let it drain.
- Whisk together mayo Dijon mustard, lemon juice, dried dill weed, and Celery Seed to make the dressing.
- Slice green onions and celery.
- When eggs have cooled, peel eggs and cut each egg lengthwise into quarters and then into pieces.
- Peel and dice the avocado and toss with 1 tablespoon lemon juice and plenty of salt (or use Vege-Sal (affiliate link) if you have it.)
- Gently mix together the avocado, egg, drained cottage cheese, sliced celery, and sliced green onion.
- Then add dressing and gently stir to coat all the ingredients with dressing. (You might not need all the dressing if you aren’t a huge mayo fan like I am. Start with part of the dressing and add more until it’s as wet as you prefer.)
- Season the salad with salt and fresh-ground black pepper to taste. This can be chilled or served right away.
- Avocado Egg Salad will keep quite well in the fridge overnight, but mine didn’t last more than a day!
Make it a Low-Carb Meal:
This Avocado Egg Salad is delicious eaten inside Low-Carb Pita Bread, but I ‘d love it with one of these low-carb side dishes:
- Kalyn’s Low-Carb Coleslaw
- Sweet and Sour Cucumber Salad
- Marinated Fresh Mozzarella with Herbs
- Cucumber Salad with Parsley and Feta
- Sweet and Sour Broccoli Salad
More Ideas with Boiled Eggs:
Avocado Egg Salad (with Cottage Cheese)
Boiled eggs, avocado, cottage cheese, celery, green onions, and the perfect lemony dressing make this Avocado Egg Salad a complete wow! And this egg salad recipe with cottage cheese is also very low in carbs and has 12 grams of protein per serving.
Ingredients
- 6 boiled eggs
- 1 cup cottage cheese, rinsed with cold water and drained
- 1 cup sliced celery (inner small pieces of celery preferred)
- 1/2 cup sliced green onions, white and green parts (more or less to taste)
- 2 avocados, peeled and diced
- 1 T fresh-squeezed lemon juice, for tossing with avocado (I used my fresh-frozen lemon juice, see notes)
- salt to taste, for salting avocado (I used Vege-Sal, see notes)
- fresh-ground black pepper and salt to taste for seasoning finished salad
Dressing Ingredients:
- 1/2 cup mayo
- 1 T Dijon mustard (or use any mustard you prefer)
- 1 T fresh-squeezed lemon juice
- 1/2 tsp. dried dill weed
- 1/2 tsp. celery seed
Instructions
- Use your preferred method to cook six hard-boiled eggs. (I love my counter-top Egg Cooker (affiliate link)and many people cook eggs in the Instant Pot (affiliate link), or use one of my methods for Perfect Hard-Cooked Eggs.) Rinse eggs with cold water and let them cool.
- While eggs cook and cool, put 1 cup cottage cheese into a fine-mesh strainer and rinse with very cold water. Let the cottage cheese drain well.
- Whisk together the mayo, Dijon, lemon juice, dried dill weed, and celery seed to make the dressing.
- Slice the green onions and celery.
- When eggs are cooled, peel and cut each egg in quarters lengthwise and then slice into pieces.
- Peel the avocado and dice into pieces. I used my favorite Avocado Tool (affiliate link).
- Put diced avocado into a bowl that’s large enough to hold the salad and toss with 1 T lemon juice and generous amount of salt or Vege-Sal.
- Add the chopped egg, drained cottage cheese, sliced celery, and sliced green onion.
- Stir salad ingredients together gently to combine. Then add dressing and stir (again gently) until all the ingredients are coated with dressing. If you’re not a big mayo fan you might not want to add all the dressing. Start with some of the dressing and add more until the salad is as wet as you prefer.
- Season salad to taste with salt and fresh-ground black pepper.
- The salad can be chilled or served right away. It was great after being in the fridge overnight, but mine didn’t last more than one day so I’m not sure how many more days it would keep!
- This egg salad mixture could be served over lettuce, in lettuce wraps, inside Joseph’s Low-Carb Pita Bread, wrapped in a low-carb tortilla, on regular bread for a sandwich, or in a variety of other ways; enjoy!
Notes
I used Vege-Sal (affiliate link) and my fresh-frozen lemon juice for this salad.
This recipe created by Kalyn with inspiration from other eggs salads she saw around the web.
Nutrition Information
Yield
6Serving Size
1Amount Per Serving Calories 356Total Fat 31gSaturated Fat 5.9gUnsaturated Fat 22gCholesterol 200mgSodium 504mgCarbohydrates 9.8gFiber 5.4gSugar 3gProtein 12g
Nutrition information is automatically calculated by the Recipe Plug-In I am using. I am not a nutritionist and cannot guarantee 100% accuracy, since many variables affect those calculations.
Low-Carb Diet / Low-Glycemic Diet / South Beach Diet Suggestions:
This Avocado Egg Salad (with Cottage Cheese) is great option for low-carb or Keto diet plans. I used full-fat mayo and cottage cheese but if you wanted to make this for the original South Beach Diet, it would be South Beach Diet friendly with light mayo and low-fat cottage cheese. Avocados are a limited food for South Beach, so limit portion size if you’re strictly following that plan.
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Historical Notes for this Recipe:
This recipe for high-protein low-carb egg salad with avocado and cottage cheese was first posted in 2017. It was last updated with more information in 2025.
15 Comments on “Avocado Egg Salad (with Cottage Cheese)”
Love, love, love this recipe!!!! This avocado, cottage cheese egg salad is going into the rotation for summer meals. Hubbie loves it too. Thank you so much!!!!
RATING is 5 stars out of 5. Delicious and perfect.
Thanks so much! So glad to hear you enjoyed it. And thanks for taking time to leave a star rating too, those are so helpful!
Thanks Ginny! Glad you are enjoying the recipes.
In late 2017 I switched my site from Blogger to WordPress, which ended up causing me to have to edit more than 2,000 recipes to the format required by Google. But that is now done, and every recipe has nutritional information.
Since there’s lemon juice in the dressing mix and tossed with the avocado, is there 2 T total or 1 T split? The main ingredient list only calls for 1 and I don’t want to overpower this. Thanks for the change up from regular egg salad!
I used 2 T total. I am a huge lemon fan, but this was definitely not over lemony for me!
Did you use the dill and celery seed. Egg salad isn't a strong flavor but it should be flavorful. You might want more mustard than I used if you'd like it more tangy.
I love that you rinse off the cottage cheese! I have been doing that for years! I am not a fan of all that creaminess and so I rinse it off and mix it into all kinds of things. My favorite is to mix in chopped tomatoes or bruschetta. Anyway I never thought to mix into egg salad and love the addition of avocados too. Making this today! Thank you!
Fun to find another cottage cheese rinser. I just like it better that way. Hope you enjoy this as much as we did!
Definitely going to try this, but please tell me why you rinse the cottage cheese.
Hope you enjoy. I feel the salad might be too watery with the creamy liquid from the cottage cheese. I often rinse cottage cheese when I want to use the curds but don't want added liquid, but it might work without it if you want to try that.
thank you!
Hi Kalyn….About Jadams comment on the cottage cheese….could one not use crumbled Feta cheese. you get the really salty version with black pepper bits in it that would go well if you liked a salty Feta, or a much milder, creamier one from Denmark…i live in South Africa and i buy the Mediterranean Danish Feta which is lovely and creamy and not to salty and i think a perfect match for your creamy Egg Salad recipe…just a thought….
Fun hearing from someone in South Africa! I do like the idea of using mild crumbled Feta to replace the cottage cheese. I think that would be a winner (and maybe the source of a future recipe inspiration!) I would leave out the salt until you taste it.
Can you really taste the cottage cheese? This may sound like a stupid question, but I'm not a fan. I have used it some of your baked recipes and I didn't really notice it. If it's not prominent in the dish I may give it a try.
Not a stupid question at all! Truthfully I don't think you can taste the cottage cheese in this at all. If you try it, let me know what you think!