Such a fruit as avocado has gained fame in our country recently and even now, when it can be bought in almost any store, many simply do not know what can be cooked from it. First of all, it is worth saying that the avocado is very useful, it contains a significant number of micro- and macro elements, vitamins, and the fats that make up it are easily digestible and useful.
Particular attention should be paid to vegetarians, as well as to people who care about their health and do not consume meat. It is an avocado serving as an excellent substitute for eggs and meat in various dishes. It has a light nutty taste and perfectly complements any other products. There are many options for using avocados: it can be eaten as a separate fruit, used in the preparation of sandwiches and snacks, added to sushi or soups. But, perhaps, most often avocados can be found in various salads, and we will share with you the recipes of some of them.
Salad with avocado and seafood
If you want to prepare a festive and at the same time a useful dish, then a delicious salad with avocado and seafood will come in handy.
Ingredients:
- avocados - 1 piece;
- shrimp - 200 g;
- canned squids - ½ jar;
- cucumber - 1 piece;
- olives - 5-8 pieces. (you can and more, if you like);
- mayonnaise.
Preparation
Avocado clean from the skin, remove the bone and cut into cubes. Cucumbers and squid, too, cut. Shrimp the boil, and then chop. Cut the olives into rings.
Stir all the ingredients and season with mayonnaise. A delicious and simple salad with avocado is ready.
Vegetable salad with avocado
As we have already said, avocado is an excellent substitute for meat and eggs, so it is simply indispensable during fasting, diets or for vegetarians, as it makes the vegetable salad more nutritious and nutritious. So if you need a light and useful dinner or dinner, we will tell you how to prepare a salad of avocados and vegetables.
Ingredients:
- avocados - 1 piece;
- sweet pepper - 1 piece;
- tomato - 2 pcs .;
- red onion - head floor;
- garlic - 1 clove;
- rucola - 1 bundle;
- hot pepper - 1 pod;
- pistachios - a handful;
- olive oil;
- lemon juice - 1 tbsp. a spoon;
- salt - to taste.
Preparation
Avocado clean and cut into pieces. Tomatoes and Bulgarian peppers are also cut arbitrarily. We remove the sharp pepper from the seeds and cut it together with garlic. Onions - rings. Now in the salad bowl we mix the ingredients, season them with lemon juice, butter and if desired salt.
Fried pistachios cut (not very finely), sprinkle them with our dish, and enjoy a diet salad with avocado.
Avocado salad with egg
The following salad recipe is interesting not only for the speed of cooking, but also because it can be eaten separately or used as a pasta for a sandwich.
Ingredients:
- avocado - half;
- eggs - 4 pieces;
- mayonnaise - 1 tbsp. a spoon;
- yoghurt (unsweetened) - 1 tbsp. a spoon;
- garlic - 1 clove;
- wine vinegar - 2 tsp.
- bread - 2 slices;
- salt, black pepper.
Preparation
Eggs boil and separate the yolks from the proteins. Chop the yolks with a fork. Then take half an avocado, cut into slices and add to the yolks. Again, mix everything together with a fork and add the mayonnaise with yoghurt. Stir, season with wine vinegar, salt and pepper. Garlic squeezed in a garlic and combine with a mixture of avocado.
Now cut small cubes of protein and mix with a mixture of avocado and yolks. You will have a light salad with avocado, which you can eat separately, and you can grease them with slices of bread and enjoy an unusual sandwich.
Salad with avocado and fish
Another decoration of the festive table will be a salad with avocado and red fish.
Ingredients:
- avocados - 1 piece;
- red fish salted and boiled - 100 g;
- Bulgarian pepper - 1 pc .;
- olive oil;
- Red caviar.
Preparation
Fish, avocado and pepper cut into cubes and season with olive oil. Prepare the salad in the crockery, and put on top with a spoonful of caviar. It will be very tasty and beautiful.