'we recommend avoiding' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to give advice or suggest something that should not be done. For example: "We recommend avoiding processed foods as much as possible."
Therefore, we recommend avoiding overstocking at the feed bunk to increase feeding activity and reduce competition.
We recommend avoiding the third Bay Area airport, Oakland (OAK), as ground transportation from there is considerably less convenient.
Rarely, people have reactions to drugs, such as peeling or blistering skin, or liver or kidney injury, that are so troubling that we recommend avoiding the medication in the future.
To mitigate the impact of this road we recommend avoiding further road expansion, reducing and enforcing speed limits, limiting traffic volume at night, managing habitat near the road and, importantly, enhancing patrolling and other anti-poaching efforts.
Therefore, we recommend avoiding immediate loading of the implants.
Given the uncertainty, we recommend avoiding the energy, commodity, big-cap technology and metals sectors.
We strongly recommend avoiding any surgery other than CLET in the context of prospective clinical studies and trials so as not to mask results from CLET.
In contrast to Stephens (2000) and Jasra et al. (2005), we strongly recommend avoiding the label-switching problem by restricting attention to marginal distributions of only those parameters which are invariant under permutations of the labels of the categories.
Medical authorities also recommend avoiding excessive exposure to the sun.
They recommend avoiding stereotypes and presenting Muslim Americans "acting as Americans".
They also recommend avoiding driving or moving around at night, but coastal areas are pretty safe.
