Avocados or the Perseus fruit of the American (a species of evergreen fruit plants from the family of the Laurel) is a valuable food product; About 400 varieties are known.
Currently, avocados are cultivated in many countries (not only in America, but also in some countries of Asia, Africa, Australia and even Spain). The oily pulp of this wonderful fruit contains many useful substances, vegetable fats, vitamins, microelements, antioxidants. Regular use of avocados in food has a rejuvenating effect on the human body. The taste of the avocado pulp is completely neutral, so eating this fruit is simply not interesting. Usually avocados are used in the preparation of complex dishes from several ingredients, for example, salads or cook on its basis various sauces, delicious and very useful. Avocado sauces will perfectly match meat and fish, as well as for different salads. Familiar dishes with such sauces will acquire new exotic flavors.
Here are some recipes for avocado sauces.
Important points:
- When choosing and buying fruits, pay attention to the integrity of the skin and the color (from green, dark green, green-brown to almost black). Fruits can be hard as a stone (these unripe, will ripen about 2-4 days). Fruits should not be too soft and fleshy (these are overripe, have a rancid taste);
- Immediately after cutting the fruit of the avocado and extracting the pulp, sprinkle it with lemon or lime juice to avoid darkening due to oxidation in the air.
Mexican base sauce "Guacomole" from avocado
There are many options for making this very popular sauce, but the main ingredients that make up it remain unchanged. This is avocado pulp, lime juice or lemon and salt.
Ingredients:
- fruit avocado - 2-3 pcs .;
- lime - 1 pc. (or a lemon - 0,5 pieces);
- salt - to taste.
Preparation
Cut the fruit of the avocado along and extract the stone. Using a spoon, remove the pulp and immediately sprinkle it with lemon or lime juice. We mash the pulp with a fork (or use a blender for this). Prisalivaem to taste.
Of course, in this form the sauce will be uninteresting, especially for residents of warm countries, where they like dishes with spicy and sharp tastes. This is just the basis for the sauce, the rest of the ingredients will give it a finished taste.
Avocado sauce - green mole with garlic
To the basic ingredients of the sauce (see above), add crushed garlic, fresh finely chopped green cilantro, green hot chili, you can add green onions and green sweet peppers. Of course, it is better to cook everything at once in a blender.
Mole red
To the basic ingredients of the sauce, instead of unripe hot chili peppers and sweet peppers, add red hot pepper and ripe sweet red pepper. Sauce "Mole" red from avocado is prepared with the addition of tomatoes (you can use tomato paste). We also add garlic and ground coriander seeds. It is also interesting to modify this version of the sauce by adding pumpkin puree .
Mole chocolate
To the base sauce of avocado, add 1-3 teaspoons of a mixture of powdered cocoa with sugar (1: 0.5) or a little melted black
This version of the sauce can be interestingly modified by adding sour cream, natural milk cream or unsweetened classic yogurt.
Using avocado pulp, lemon, yogurt and a mixture of ground curry spices, well, and for example, puree from plum or other fruits, you can cook refined Indian chutney sauces.
Serve sauces to the table can be in half the shell of the fruit avocado, it looks very impressive.