Avocadoes? Can anyone suggest any nice ways of cooking and eating avocadoes?!
Avocadoes? Can anyone suggest any nice ways of cooking and eating avocadoes?
Answers:
You don't cook avocadoes. Wait until they are ripe, then mash them up. Add fresh lemon juice, salt and pepper, and a tablespoon of fresh minced garlic - voila! Guacamole!
I have never heard of anyone cooking avocado. Personally, i can't stand the stuff, bland and green and gross. But my mum spreads it on toast, and cuts it into cubes and puts it in salad, and she also makes guacamole too.
on toast
I have a standby recipe that uses avocado...
scramble some eggs, place on tortilla, top with a spoon full of salsa and a bit of cheese...
slice some avocado and place on top...
roll it up, eat it...yum, yum!
to decide if an avocado is ready to eat, (if you don't know) try cutting it from the stem end for about 3/4 inch with a knife. if it cuts easily, continue. if it is very hard, wait a day. i do this and the slit does not harm the fruit.
eaten cooked??!?, never did that. my guacamole follows:
if lazy, simply salt ripe avacado and enjoy.
mash into a mush with a strong fork on a flat-bottom plate(i will buy a "potato ricer" one day to try...), add juice of a key lime, or 1/2 of a big lime, mince some onion, 2-3 tablespoons, as tiny as you can, smash it likewise with the fork, add salt 1/4 to1/2 teaspoon (you can always add more, but it is hard to take out salt!!), now, mexico comes alive-add cilantro. a teaspoon or more dry, or about six individual fresh leaves w/o stems, more or less to taste, smash to pulp by mixing into avocado-onion mix. add to tacos, eat on corn chips, or eat with a spoon. lick the plate, make more, etc; but don't overdo it! this is de-lish!
most people do eat them raw after they have ripened, but there is no reason you can not cook them in foods. i have an old Sunset cookbook from the 1970's and it has a few recepies that include them in cooked dishes.
spread on toast as has been mentioned is popular. i enjoy them diced up and tossed in a green salad. they can be used as a topping for burgers or an ingredient in omelettes. and yeah, of course you can make guacamole with it, but do use a potato masher, it makes the process so much easier than a fork. basically just get a taste for them and experiment for yourself, you will know better than anyone else how you like your foods.
when all else fails, check out www.fooddownunder.com for various receipes... you can type just about anything in there and find 100 different ways of making it. one of them is probably exactly what you are looking for or actually calls for ingredients you have on hand.
put slices of them with shrimp and place in a rice paper wrap.
these should be like a burrito would be. Deep fry until a golden brown. These are a type of spring roll. Use a nice dipping sauce and you have some great food.
Here are my 3 favorite ways to eat avocadoes:
Sliced with a bit of lemon juice. Simple but delicious.
Cut up into a salad of spinach with walnuts and crumbled bacon. Add some crumbled blue cheese if you like and dress with a drizzle of olive oil and salt and pepper.
Easy guacamole: smash a ripe avocado (I like to keep in a little chunky, but you can make it smooth if you prefer), mix in salt, a few cloves of garlic chopped fine (the more the better but you can do it to your tastes), a chopped tomato and the juice from one fresh lemon. Eat with tortilla chips or on toast or to dress all kinds of Mexican foods.
Enjoy!
You dont cook them you eat it as is!!!! U