Avocado Recipes

Avocado Recipes

The avocado is one of the fruits in the world with a higher fatty acid content, making this a fruit with potential unique potential in the kitchen. Below you will find a few very interesting recipes where an avocado is used for both a healthy and tasty addition to your diet.

Note that you also have avocado oil which can use used in many recipes especially salads and other cold dishes but technical it is possible to use this to cook to, sometimes used as a lubricant or for cosmetics this avocado oil has a unusual high smoke point allowing this to be used without damaging the oil in the process. 



Avocado oil is High in mono-unsatured fats and vitamin E this is a great healthy alternative to certain other oils commonly used in the kitchen up to this day.

Avocado Dip

To make an avocado Dip you need the following ingredients

1 avocado, it has to be ripe and soft

1 tablespoon lemon juice

1 tablespoon mayonnaise

1 clove garlic

½ teaspoon salt

The preparations for avocado dip are :

Cut the avocado in half alongside the lenght and remove the pit, then remove

the inside pulp to a bowl and mash this pulp with a fork

Add the lemon juice, mayonnaise, garlic and salt and mix all of it well.

      Serve at room temperature and enjoy with some cut vegetables, chips , crackers …

Avocado Smoothie

The benefits of avocado in a smoothie is that you combine this with a great many different ingredients , a few examples are this a chocolate-avocado smoothie a citrus-avocado smoothie or maybe you prefer a pear-avocado smoothie, some might even prefer a kiwi-avocado smoothie, in short the benefit of avocado in this is that the possibilities are endless and there are a great many tasty options when you try to make an avocado smoothie. Here is a recipe worth tasting :

chocolate Avocado smoothie

The ingredients you need for this avocado smoothie is the following:

1 small avocado, peeled, remove the pit and cut it in little pieces

1 banana peeled and cut in pieces

½ tablespoon cocoa powder

200grams of natural yoghurt(preferable fat free and no sugar)

2 teaspoons honey

100ml cold water

The preparations for a nice tasty chocolate avocado smoothie are:

Put the avocado and banana in a blender or smoothie maker and mix it a little before adding some cocoa powder for taste then mix again, after which add the yoghurt, honey and water(optional) before mixing it all up.

Then serve it and enjoy a nice smoothie on a hot day!

 

Avocado Salad

Once again when you try to make a salad the benefits of avocado show itself, due to the fact that it is a very unique flavor compared to some other fruits it is possible to make a great mix of avocado salad with added fruits, dried fruit or fresh fruit it all works! Here is a little recipe that tastes great and is healthy on top of that.

Avocado Salad with dried fruits, nuts and lemon—cumin vinaigrette

The ingredients you will need to make a excellent Avocado Salad are:

3 tablespoons of raisins

1large Lemon

3 tablespoons of olive oil

2 tablespoons of dried apricot

¼ tablespoon of coriander

¼ tablespoon cumin

¼ tablespoon Sweet Paprika

2 medium ripe avocados, peeled and pitted and cut in pieces

2 tablespoons of chopped almonds

Fresh black pepper

2medium scallions of white and light green parts thinly sliced

The preparations to make this avocado salad are as following:

Get a medium bowl, soak the raisins and apricots in hot water for 5minutes, drain set aside.

Grate the zest from the lemon and squeeze about 1 tablespoon juice, in a small bowl mix the lemon zest and juice with some olive oil, coriander, cumin and paprika and if you really want some salt then add ¼ tablespoon of salt on top of that. 

When combined you take a large bowl and mix  all ingredients you have and already prepared together and toss some vinaigrette into it, season a little bit with pepper and maybe a little extra salt and you’re done.

Avocado Sandwich

Well I’m not going to tell you how to make a sandwich but once again the benefits of avocado is the potential for combinations and this becomes evidence here to.  Here are some combinations you can use that taste great. Here is an easy Avocado sandwich example

Avocado sandwich with mayonnaise, mustard, tomatoes and chicken/turkey.