Avocado is an exotic fruit with a delicate creamy taste, which gives greens and nuts. It is used in the preparation of various salads, appetizers, casseroles and sauces. For high-quality and tasty dishes, choose only ripe avocado fruits.
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You will need
Avocado, cheese, garlic, mayonnaise, sour cream, lemon juice, potatoes, carrots, pickled cucumbers, green peas, tomatoes, shrimp, chicken.
Instruction manual
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Start learning how to cook avocados with the simplest recipes, and then move on to the complicated ones. So you 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, take out the stone. Using a spoon, remove the flesh of the avocado and grate it until a homogeneous mass is formed. You can grind avocados with a blender. Rub the cheese on a fine grater and add to the avocado. Finely chop or crush the garlic in a garlic press. Add garlic and mayonnaise to the avocado and mix. You can put the resulting mass into the skin of the avocado, as well as on pieces of sliced loaf.
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You can make Olivier salad with avocados. To do this, take 1 avocado, 2-3 potatoes, green peas, 1 carrot, 1-2 pickled cucumbers. Cook the potatoes and carrots in their skins, then peel and cut into cubes. Cut the avocado in two and cut into cubes as well. Then dice the pickled cucumbers and mix all the ingredients in a salad bowl. Cook 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 some salt. Whip the sauce with a blender and fill it with salad.
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Avocado smoothies are a good dessert for a festive table. To prepare it, take a ripe avocado, half a cup of tofu cheese, 1 cup pear juice, 2 tablespoons of honey, half a teaspoon of vanilla extract. First cut the avocado, remove the skin and bone. Then mix the avocado pulp, tofu cheese, vanilla, honey and juice in a blender. The mass should be homogeneous: pour it into glasses and add two ice cubes to each. Instead of pear juice, you can use liquid yogurt without additives. The consistency of an avocado smoothie should resemble a milkshake.
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Guests will be pleasantly surprised if you make a chicken salad with avocado. You will need: 250 grams of delicious chicken, 1 avocado, mayonnaise to taste, 1 tbsp. lemon juice, fresh herbs, a pinch of salt and pepper. Peel the avocado first and cut into cubes. Then finely chop the chicken fillet. In an salad bowl, mix avocado and mayonnaise and add the chicken meat. Sprinkle the salad on top with greens and add lemon juice. Salad ready! The combination of avocado and chicken is very successful. In addition, the mass is so thick that it is convenient to spread on a sandwich.
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Fried shrimp with avocado is also a festive dish. For cooking, take 350 grams of shrimp, 2 tbsp. vinegar, 1.5 tbsp lemon juice, 3 tablespoons oils, 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 pan, fry 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 vinegar (marinade). Put the oil and chilli on the shrimp, cover with wrap and refrigerate all night. Before serving, mix shrimp with chopped tomatoes, put everything in half an avocado and pour the sauce on top.
note
Avocado pit is not suitable for eating. It can cause indigestion or allergies in both humans and animals.
Useful advice
If you rub an avocado with lemon juice, its taste will change a little. Moreover, such an avocado will stay fresh longer and will not blacken.