Avocado is an excellent food to include in your diet. This fruit and oilseed is the healthiest for cardiovascular health. Thanks to its monounsaturated fats, it regulates blood sugar and cholesterol levels. Not to mention its high fiber content and good fats, which make it easy to feel full and avoid cravings during the day. Eating half an avocado a day is enough to enjoy its benefits, and above all, its melting texture! It is often easier to savor avocado for its texture than for its taste, which is particularly subtle. In fact, avocado has more flavor when it starts to go beyond its ripening stage, and, just ripe, you can barely taste its flavors. This is why we use very (or even too) ripe avocados to prepare guacamole. If you want to taste avocado when mixed with other ingredients (in a salad for example), it is therefore important to find the right ingredients to enhance its flavors.
What I like about avocado is to enhance it. My favorite quick preparation? Mash half an avocado with feta, some herbs from Provence and a drizzle of balsamic vinegar. Add it all to a wholemeal muffin or incorporate it into a bowl. As I experimented, I quickly noticed that fresh cheese, herbs and spices pair perfectly with avocado! Here are my 3 favorite recipes to prepare with avocado for the summer.
Recipe #1: Avocado Nuggets with Ranch Sauce
Avocado nuggets are the ultimate original appetizer preparation. It’s a change from mozzarella croquettes, and with its ranch sauce, it awakens the taste buds to the point of losing your mind!
How do we do it? Cut 2 avocados in half, remove their skin and pit. Then divide each half into 4 slices, which will become our nugget base. Dip each slice in a mixture of flax seeds, 4 tablespoons of water, lemon juice, paprika, pepper and salt to flavor them, then bake the avocado for 15 minutes at 200 °C on a baking sheet. Meanwhile, prepare the ranch sauce. With garlic, mix 200 g of tofu, mustard, oil, vinegar, paprika, turmeric and salt, then add herbs. The sauce is ready, the nuggets too. All that’s left to do is dip them in this creamy sauce and enjoy!
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Recipe #2: Caesar salad with avocado
I like to add avocado to Caesar salad. Its softness brings a real “little extra” with the crispiness of the grilled chicken! Also, the avocado is particularly substantial, it makes this salad more complete and creates a very filling meal.
How do you do it? Quite simply, in a frying pan, brown some nice chicken strips, then, next to it, mix mayonnaise with vinegar, Worcestershire sauce, lemon juice, salt, pepper, and add grated parmesan. Once the sauce is ready and the chicken is warm, cut the avocado into cubes, slice the onion and broccoli into florets. Mix everything together and you get a salad rich in flavors and especially in textures!
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Recipe #3: Avocado toast, soft-boiled egg, miso
Avocado toast is served for breakfast, brunch or lunch, and we never get tired of it. It combines starches with bread, proteins with soft-boiled egg, and vegetables with avocado. All seasoned with spicy peanut oil for an original flavor that spice things up!
How do you do it? Coat an egg cooked for 5 minutes in boiling water in miso and refrigerate for 3 hours. Once this time is up, toast slices of bread, mash avocado on them, season with lemon, peanut-chili oil and salt. Then take the egg, cut it in half and place one half on each toast!
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