Avocado is an exotic fruit with a delicate creamy taste that gives off greens and nuts. It is used in a variety of salads, appetizers, casseroles and sauces. For quality and delicious meals, choose only ripe avocados.
It is necessary
Avocado, cheese, garlic, mayonnaise, sour cream, lemon juice, potatoes, carrots, pickled cucumbers, green peas, tomatoes, shrimps, chicken fillet
Instructions
Step 1
Start mastering cooking avocado dishes with the simplest recipes, and then move on to the complex ones. So you will gradually learn to work with this product and learn its features. To prepare a snack, you will need: one avocado, 2 cloves of garlic, 40 grams of hard cheese, a tablespoon of mayonnaise, a teaspoon of lemon juice. First, cut the avocado, remove the pit. Use a spoon to scoop out the avocado pulp and grate until smooth. You can grind the avocado with a blender. Grate the cheese on a fine grater and add to the avocado. Finely chop the garlic or crush in a garlic press. Add garlic and mayonnaise to the avocado and mix everything. You can put the resulting mass in an avocado peel, as well as on slices of a chopped loaf.
Step 2
You can make Olivier salad with avocado. To do this, take 1 avocado, 2-3 potatoes, green peas, 1 carrot, 1-2 pickled cucumbers. Boil the potatoes and carrots in their skins, then peel and dice. Cut the avocado in half and also cut into cubes. Then cut the pickled cucumbers into cubes and toss all the ingredients in a salad bowl. Go ahead and prepare the sauce. Mix 100 grams of sour cream, 100 grams of mayonnaise, 100 ml of vegetable oil, 2 tbsp. lemon juice, 1 tsp. honey, add a little salt. Whisk the sauce with a blender and pour over the salad.
Step 3
Avocado smoothie is the perfect dessert for the holiday table. To prepare it, take a ripe avocado, half a cup of tofu cheese, 1 glass of pear juice, 2 tablespoons of honey, half a teaspoon of vanilla extract. First, slice the avocado, remove the skin and pit. Then combine the avocado pulp, tofu, vanilla, honey and juice in a blender. The mass should turn out to be homogeneous: pour it into glasses and add two ice cubes to each. You can use plain liquid yogurt instead of pear juice. The consistency of an avocado smoothie should resemble a milkshake.
Step 4
Guests will be pleasantly surprised if you prepare a chicken and avocado salad. You will need: 250 grams of delicious chicken fillet, 1 avocado, mayonnaise to taste, 1 tbsp. lemon juice, fresh herbs, a pinch of salt and pepper. First, peel the avocado and cut into cubes. Then finely chop the chicken fillet. In a salad bowl, combine the avocado and mayonnaise and add the chicken meat. Sprinkle herbs on top of the salad and add lemon juice. Salad ready! The combination of avocado and chicken is very good. In addition, the mass turns out to be so thick that it is convenient to spread it on a sandwich.
Step 5
Fried shrimp with avocado is also a festive dish. For cooking, take 350 grams of shrimp, 2 tablespoons. vinegar, 1, 5 tablespoons. lemon juice, 3 tbsp. butter, 2 avocados, 1 onion, 1 tomato, a pinch of red pepper, salt, a clove of garlic. Add lemon juice, pepper to vinegar. Heat oil in a frying pan, sauté onions, garlic and add shrimp to them. Fry for no more than 5 minutes, and then remove the shrimp from the pan and dip them in the vinegar (marinade). Add butter and chili to the shrimp, cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate overnight. Before serving, mix the shrimp with the chopped tomatoes, put everything on the avocado halves and top with the sauce.
