Avocado in Russia is considered an exotic fruit, native to Mexico and Central America. Its fruit has an egg-shaped green color, a large bone and tender pulp with a pleasant, slightly bland taste. Avocado is also a real storehouse of useful substances, for which it is appreciated not so much by gourmets as by adherents of a healthy diet.
Instructions
Step 1
Avocado does not have a bright taste, so this fruit is best revealed in combination with additional products that perfectly set it off. After heat treatment, the fruits often give off bitterness - for this reason, avocados are usually eaten raw, used to make sandwiches, salads and other types of cold snacks, including various sauces. In addition, in this form, it retains all the vitamins, which, by the way, are not few in it.
Step 2
To enjoy the taste of this fruit to the fullest, choose juicy and ripe fruits. Proceed from the firmness of the fruit, as a dense and rough skin will tell you little about its condition. Make sure that the avocado is firm, to do this, take the fruit in your palm and squeeze it lightly. If it is too hard, it needs some time to ripen, too soft may already have slightly rotten flesh, but if the dents on the skin quickly regain their shape, the avocado is ideal for consumption.
Step 3
Wash and peel the fruit before eating. Then cut the fruit in half lengthwise. Don't be surprised when you come across a hard bone, don't try to cut it, just cut all the flesh around the bone. Break the avocado along the cut, the pit will come off easily and you can just take it out. Cut the fruit into thin wedges or cubes if needed for a snack. It is better not to peel softer fruits first, just cut the fruit in two halves, take out the bone and cut out the pulp with a teaspoon until one peel remains in the palm of your hand.
Step 4
If the taste of the avocado is pleasant for you, the pulp can be eaten just like that, without any seasonings or other additional ingredients. Eat hard varieties like apples, and use softer ones on bread or toast instead of butter. It is no coincidence that the fruits seem slightly oily in taste - they contain a large amount of essential fatty acids necessary for the body, vitamin E, thiamine and riboflavin. At the same time, sugar and carbohydrates are quite small - thereby it compares favorably with other fruits.
Step 5
If it's not fun to eat an avocado just like that, and its taste seems bland, try sprinkling the pulp with lemon juice, olive oil and sprinkle with black pepper. All of these ingredients can be added directly to the hole in the fruit after removing the seed, and then eat the pulp with a teaspoon. Avocado goes well with fresh herbs - young arugula, dill, green onions. You can also eat this fruit with feta cheese or fresh cottage cheese, and if you mix all these ingredients in a blender and spread on fresh crispy bread, you get a healthy and tasty breakfast option or an excellent snack.
Step 6
Also combine avocado with seafood or lightly salted fish. The pulp of this exotic fruit perfectly sets off the taste of shrimp or salmon. It is no coincidence that this combination of products is often used in salads or appetizers. A sandwich with avocado, a slice of trout and herbs, sprinkled with lemon juice and sprinkled with black pepper, for example, is the perfect treat for gourmets and adherents of healthy eating - tasty, satisfying, healthy and beautiful. When preparing a snack, you can use an avocado in another way - just peel the fruit from the skin, cut it lengthwise into two halves and remove the pit. Salt the pulp, put a mixture of cottage cheese and herbs, pre-boiled tiger shrimp in the depression and sprinkle everything with lemon juice.
Step 7
In addition, avocados can be used to make salads. This fruit goes well not only with eggs, cottage cheese and seafood, but also with a wide variety of vegetables. It can be safely mixed with cucumber, bell pepper, different types of salad, tomatoes and celery. A tasty and healthy dish, for example, comes from diced avocado, cucumber, tiger prawns and arugula. You can also add apple, pineapple, tuna to salads with this fruit. Well, natural unsweetened yogurt or just olive oil, lemon juice and mustard are perfect as a dressing.
Step 8
The pulp of the fruit can also be used as a base for sandwiches. Take an avocado and puree it using a blender, mixer, or meat grinder. Then crush the garlic and add the unsweetened natural yogurt. Stir the entire mixture thoroughly and serve as a base for a snack. You can add herbs or ground allspice.
Step 9
Avocados can also be used to make a traditional Mexican dish - guacamole. Simply grind the pulp of an avocado, one tomato, a bell pepper, an onion and a couple of garlic cloves in a blender. Add salt, lemon juice and olive oil to taste, stir everything and serve as a sauce with toasted bread or chips. Well, if you just cut all these ingredients into cubes, you get one of the options for a salad or side dish.
Step 10
If desired, you can also cook soup from avocado fruits. To do this, prepare and cool the chicken broth in advance. Peel the avocado, remove the pit and cut the flesh into cubes. Mix in a blender until smooth with broth, salt and pepper to taste. You can pour in a little olive oil or lemon juice. Pour into bowls, garnish with slices of fresh avocado and dill, serve with garlic croutons.
