What can I cook with avocado? Many get into a stupor when they hear this question. Because we are so often told how to make an avocado salad with different ingredients, which gives the impression that more avocados are worthless. In fact, the options are not small, from the dishes of classic Mexican cuisine to sandwiches.
How tasty to cook sandwiches from avocados?
Some lovers of this fruit believe that the fewer ingredients in a snack with avocados, the more delicious.
Ingredients:
- white bread - 4 pieces;
- avocados - 1 piece;
- tomatoes - 2 pcs .;
- lemon - ½ pcs .;
- salt, greens, pepper - to taste.
Preparation
Cut the avocado, remove the stone and scrape the pulp with a spoon. Put the flesh in a bowl, pepper, salt, add the juice of half a lemon. Thoroughly rub everything until the mass is uniform. We spread the resulting paste on the bread, from above we put tomato mugs and twigs of greens.
In general, this recipe is quite universal, the avocado is well combined with many products. Therefore, tomatoes can be replaced by something else, according to your taste. For example, delicious sandwiches with slices of sweet pepper are obtained.
How to cook soup puree from avocado?
Variants of preparation of soups-puree from avocados set, and with cheese, and with mushrooms. To begin with, try to cook here such a simple option.
Ingredients:
- avocados - 3-4 pieces;
- chicken broth - 3 cups;
- cream - ½ cup;
- sherry dry - 2 tbsp. spoons;
- salt, white pepper - to taste;
- cornmeal - 4 tbsp. spoons.
Preparation
Cut the avocado into halves and take out the stone. The flesh is scraped from the peel and put into a bowl. Grind the pulp of avocado to mashed potatoes (can be kneaded with a fork) and mix with cream. Broth poured into a saucepan, put on a fire and bring to a boil. Remove from the fire and gradually add it to puree from avocado. Pour into the soup sherry, salt, pepper and put the saucepan in a warm place. Corn flour mixed with 2 teaspoons of salt, diluted with water and kneaded a steep dough. From the dough roll out a cake 3 mm thick and fry it from both sides in a pan. The ready cake is rolled into a roll and cut into strips in a width of about half a centimeter. Soup-puree poured on plates and sprinkle with corn sticks.
How to prepare an avocado salad?
Well and where without the traditional dish with avocado, lettuce? Since the avocado is a fruit, then let's prepare a dessert salad.
Ingredients:
- avocados - 1 piece;
- Strawberry - 10 berries;
- grated walnuts - ½ cup;
- honey - 4 tsp;
- green salad - 2-3 leaves;
- lemon juice - 1 teaspoon;
- sugar - 2 tbsp. spoons;
- apple cider vinegar - 1 tbsp. a spoon;
- olive oil - 2 tbsp. spoons.
Preparation
In a small bowl mix sugar, lemon juice, honey, olive oil and vinegar - this will be the dressing sauce. We cut in half the berries of strawberries, cut into pieces of avocado. In a salad bowl we beautifully lay out lettuce leaves, want whole, want cut. On top, spread the pieces of avocado and strawberries, sprinkle with grated nuts and pour the sauce. It is not necessary to stir, as however, and to hesitate with the use - the avocado will darken, and the dish will lose its attractiveness.
How to cook guacamole from an avocado?
What else can you make from avocado? Have you tried a dish of traditional Mexican cuisine with guacamole?
Ingredients:
- tomatoes are solid - 3 pcs .;
- red sweet pepper - 1 pc .;
- pepper jalapeno (you can take pickled) - 3 pieces;
- coriander (parsley) - 1 bunch;
- avocados - 3 pieces;
- lime - ½ pcs .;
- black pepper and salt - to taste.
Preparation
We cut finely tomatoes, peppers and coriander. Everything is mixed in a large salad bowl. Pour the mixture of juice with halves of lime and salt to taste. We mix it up, try not to do it so as not to spoil the appearance of the mixture.
We cut the avocado in half, get the bones, and the flesh is taken out in a flat plate. We knead the flesh of the avocado with a fork until the condition of gruel. Mix the resulting paste with the vegetable mixture, add salt and pepper. You can pour lime juice on top again.