25 reasons why avocado is the world’s most perfect food

There are so many delicious salad dressing recipes that use avocado to replace the bad fats you usually find in creamy dressings with good fats. This recipe from Global Table Adventure is one of our favorites.

Hass Avocado, we salute you for developing a brilliant marketing scheme that we can actually benefit from. The company's Avocado Central website offers every avocado recipe you could ever imagine.

Gabrielle Hamilton’s summer sandwich is one of our favorite warm-weather lunch solutions — it's topped with ricotta, avocados, grape tomatoes, red pearl onions and lemon zest, and garnished with sesame seeds.

No words. Get the recipe, from Two Peas And Their Pod, here.

The California Avocado Commission shared this recipe for avocado-cilantro bagel spread, and the only downside to it is that we’re now bummed our favorite New York bagel joints don’t offer it.

This chilled avocado cucumber soup recipe from Framed Cooks is refreshing AND nutritious on a hot summer day.

Replace bad fats with good ones in such dishes as egg salad — like this one from Skinnytaste — or potato salad.

This recipe for California eggs benedict from the Curvy Carrot tops English muffin halves with tomato, avocado, Monterey Jack cheese and hollandaise.

This guacamole bruschetta recipe from Just A Taste uses French bread, garlic, tomatoes, avocados, onion, cilantro, olive oil and lime juice — yum!

Who wants a loaded baked potato when you can have this incredible mix of shrimp, tomatoes and avocado from the Spicy Stiletto?

The Diva Dish concocted this awesome recipe for lemon quinoa cilantro chickpea salad with avocado, and we were suddenly reminded that salad can be yummy.

Avocados make a great garnish for soups, like this Mexican lime soup with chicken from Williams-Sonoma.

An ingenious combination of guacamole and hummus, this guac hummus from Martha Stewart accompanies us to many a summer picnic.

This avocado smoothie from the Little Kitchen is a mix of avocado, sweetened condensed milk, almond milk, sugar and crushed ice.

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It turns out grilled avocados are delicious — make sure you add a dollop of sour cream and salsa where the pits used to be after grilling. Click here for more unusual foods to throw on the grill.

These avocado truffles from the Golubka blog are not only absolutely beautiful, but they’re also coated and stuffed with healthy ingredients. The recipe stuffs an avocado with a filling of mango, cilantro, black sesame seeds and lime juice; then it coats the whole thing with dried mango, black sesame seeds, pistachio and freeze-dried corn, peas and red bell pepper, ground together with a mortar and pestle.

We all love dips — but our waistlines usually don’t. Enter the creamy avocado yogurt dip from Two Peas And A Pod, which cuts the bad fats by using avocados and Greek yogurt.

Our obsession with healthy summer finger foods led us to these avocado pesto-stuffed tomatoes from Better Homes & Gardens.

Get some greens with this Green Goddess grilled cheese sandwich from Taste Spotting, which uses herb pesto, mozzarella, baby spinach, avocado and goat cheese.

Eliminate some of the butter you usually use in baked goods by using avocado instead — like this this avocado pound cake recipe from Joy The Baker.

Instead of making some cheesy pasta dish, try using an avocado pesto on pasta. Check out this recipe from the Comfort of Cooking.

Get creative with your breakfast and bake your eggs in the empty space of an avocado where the pit used to be.

These avocado witches' fingers from Domestic Fits are simple and yummy: avocado slices stuffed with goat cheese and then wrapped in prosciutto.