Avocado... What to do with it?

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  • GiddyNZ
    GiddyNZ Posts: 136 Member
    On toast with salt and pepper, or hummus..

    great to add to all kinds of salads..

    Turn it into guacamole..

    I love corn fritters.. dice tomato, avocado and capsicum.. mix in bowl with basil pesto, little oil and S&P.. put on top of fritters.. nomnomnom..

    Avocado and chicken sandwich..

    So many yummy things to do with it :)
  • ggxx100
    ggxx100 Posts: 520 Member
    Endless possibilities...I can't imagine life without a daily avocado.

    One of my favorite breakfasts is an avocado egg bowl: 1 whole avocado sliced in half, crack an egg into each hole and bake ;)

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    My chocolate avocado cake! (sound's weird, but so good) There's avocado in the cake AND frosting

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    And usually in my "detox" salad, which I have after a, a breakfast of French toast and bacon or b, after a night of ribs...sorry, poor quality
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  • mylittletribe
    mylittletribe Posts: 84
    This is one of my favorite things, EVER: Avocado Cashew Pesto. http://thepassionatecook.typepad.com/thepassionatecook/2009/06/spaghetti_with_.html

    I tweak the recipe a bit to suit me, but either way, it's a great use of avocado. Personally I buy at least 5-10 avocado each week. Both my daughter and I love to just cut them up and eat them plain.
  • amyljl77
    amyljl77 Posts: 43 Member
    This might be weird but I mash it up and spread it over a piece of wheat toast and then top it with basil, tomato and a little mustard. Very yummy!
  • tinkerbell42381
    tinkerbell42381 Posts: 44 Member
    all great ideas - can't wait to try them!
  • CMay16
    CMay16 Posts: 144 Member
    Eat it with a spoon!! *drool*

    I love to mush mine up and add a little Greek yogurt, pinch of salt, and put it on some toast.

    There's also a new cookbook out (or almost out) called "Absolutely Avocado". I'm assuming its full of great ideas :)
  • Kaliforniagurl
    Kaliforniagurl Posts: 2 Member
    I take and mash a medium avocado and mix with a 5oz can tuna add salt and pepper and press 1 clove garlic into it .I know it sounds weird but it is great served on cucumbers or crackers :)
  • Szacoma
    Szacoma Posts: 1 Member
    A REALLY good recipe for breakfast that includes avocado is as follows:

    Layer in this order;
    Toasted Whole Wheat english muffin half
    Slices of fresh avocado
    Hashbrowns(optional, its still great without it)
    A poached or over easy egg(salt and pepper to taste)
    Fresh lettuce and spinach
    Drizzle of balsalmic vinegar on top

    It is so rediculously good! I hope you try it.
  • mrsjoyw
    mrsjoyw Posts: 80 Member
    Omygosh, Really? EAT IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!! A little lemon juice, garlic salt... Or mash it and add the lemon juice, garlic salt, finely chopped onion and tomato, jalapeno, cilantro and you have guacamole! I LOVE avocados! I would truly eat one a day if I could! And they are good for you too!! Enjoy!

    Look on line for recipes.. there is even a recipe for green ice cream using avocado!

    LOL!! I so agree!!! I would eat one every day too if I could! I COULD but I know it's not a good thing. Just give me a spoon, that's all I need to eat an avocado. Geez you guys are experts! All of these recipes are killing me!! Avocado milk shakes, tuna/egg salad...this is avocado heaven!! I have one at home now just waiting on me!
  • ggxx100
    ggxx100 Posts: 520 Member
    Omygosh, Really? EAT IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!! A little lemon juice, garlic salt... Or mash it and add the lemon juice, garlic salt, finely chopped onion and tomato, jalapeno, cilantro and you have guacamole! I LOVE avocados! I would truly eat one a day if I could! And they are good for you too!! Enjoy!

    Look on line for recipes.. there is even a recipe for green ice cream using avocado!

    LOL!! I so agree!!! I would eat one every day too if I could! I COULD but I know it's not a good thing. Just give me a spoon, that's all I need to eat an avocado. Geez you guys are experts! All of these recipes are killing me!! Avocado milk shakes, tuna/egg salad...this is avocado heaven!! I have one at home now just waiting on me!

    How is it not a good thing to eat a whole avocado in a day?? I can't imagine life without my daily avocado (Slight exaggeration, haha). Granted, I keep my nut intake lower than I used to. If you're counting fat grams, monounsaturated fats are clearly good for you and I do like to get my fats from one main source a day.
  • mrsjoyw
    mrsjoyw Posts: 80 Member
    Omygosh, Really? EAT IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!! A little lemon juice, garlic salt... Or mash it and add the lemon juice, garlic salt, finely chopped onion and tomato, jalapeno, cilantro and you have guacamole! I LOVE avocados! I would truly eat one a day if I could! And they are good for you too!! Enjoy!

    Look on line for recipes.. there is even a recipe for green ice cream using avocado!

    LOL!! I so agree!!! I would eat one every day too if I could! I COULD but I know it's not a good thing. Just give me a spoon, that's all I need to eat an avocado. Geez you guys are experts! All of these recipes are killing me!! Avocado milk shakes, tuna/egg salad...this is avocado heaven!! I have one at home now just waiting on me!

    How is it not a good thing to eat a whole avocado in a day?? I can't imagine life without my daily avocado (Slight exaggeration, haha). Granted, I keep my nut intake lower than I used to. If you're counting fat grams, monounsaturated fats are clearly good for you and I do like to get my fats from one main source a day.

    Hold on! LOL!! Wait a minute!! Are you saying that I CAN eat an avocado EVERY DAY!?!?!? Whewwwwwwww dont tell me THAT!!! I need to sit down, I feel faint! LOL!! I know they are the good fat but I still thought that it would be too much of a good thing if I ate one every day. I've been limiting myself to one a week although I do eat the entire thing in one sitting.
  • melindasuefritz
    melindasuefritz Posts: 3,509 Member
    guac
  • bluebirds5
    bluebirds5 Posts: 92 Member
    peel, pit, and slice sprinkle generously with lime juice add a little sprinkle of salt. Super yummy!
  • KlaMorgan
    KlaMorgan Posts: 72 Member
    Spinich Smoothie with Avocado and Apple

    1 1/2 cups apple juice
    2 cups stemmed and chopped spinach or kale
    1 apple—unpeeled, cored, and chopped
    1/2 avocado, chopped

    puree while adding water for consistency of your liking...
    its SO GOOD.

    I also like to put avocado in my tuna with salsa.. YUM
  • davidboyd0041
    davidboyd0041 Posts: 14
    Chicen el greico,
    Take 2 chicken boneless chicken breasts cook them up, make sure they're flat kind of, you'll be aiming to make a sort of sandiwch with them(Also if your caloric intake needs to be lower just use 1 breast and cut it in half)
    Tear that avocado open mash it up, put a little bit of salt and pepper on it.
    Take about 7 whole olives cut them in half, now lay out a chicken breast
    Smear that acovado all over it, the whole thing! top it with the cut olives, place the other chicken breast over it.
  • CarlyQ80
    CarlyQ80 Posts: 3 Member
    this is a yummy recipe and uses avocados!

    http://www.myrecipes.com/recipe/cilantro-lime-chicken-with-avocado-salsa-10000001886432/


    It's great during summer months.
  • 37434958
    37434958 Posts: 457 Member
    I LOVE making avocados this way :

    Boil an egg or two and put them in the same bowl as the avocado, mush everything with a fork, add salt, olive oil, and some pepper and eat it with bread!
  • bayofham
    bayofham Posts: 2
    I just found a choco-vado. Which is avocado with carob powder and a bit of almond milk blended together. Real creamy, smooth like mousse. Sometimes I put in honey or garnish with strawberries.

    I love avocado- salads, solo, with shrimp, doesn't matter.
  • RhineDHP
    RhineDHP Posts: 1,025 Member
    bump to read for later :)
  • christinehetz80
    christinehetz80 Posts: 490 Member
    I eat avocado pretty much every day...actually even have a profile pic that says keep calm and eat avocados. I eat them on my eggs or toast for breakfast, on sandwiches, mixed in with egg salad, regular salad, or chopped salad which I just chop cucumbers, bell peppers, and avocado. Avocado stacks with tomato and balsamic. Hummus, As a pasta "sauce", with edamame and kale, with fish tacos, on pizza, tossed with quinoa, seriously I feel like Bubba in Forest Gump....you can pretty much eat it with anything savory. I've heard people eating it as an ice cream but I prefer eating mine in savory ways versus sweet.
  • shastacrystal
    shastacrystal Posts: 262
    I cut it in half sprinkle it with spices like sea salt and black pepper or whatever and then eat it with a spoon! One of my fave snacks!
  • aneonoelle
    aneonoelle Posts: 2
    I also make Alfredo sauce with it! YUM!
  • pkinblue
    pkinblue Posts: 140 Member
    avocado, almond milk, strawberry smoothie,
    baked with an egg in the hole
    guacamole
    chopped with mango in a salad with a rasp. vinaigrette
  • scapalbo
    scapalbo Posts: 19


    Cut avocado in half, remove the pit, crack an egg into the pit hole and bake in oven until the egg is cooked how you like your eggs and then top with salsa before serving....yummy breakfast.

    this sounds fabulous!!!
  • supahstar71
    supahstar71 Posts: 926 Member
    Lawry's seasoned salt + Tapatio
  • Rbacchiega
    Rbacchiega Posts: 52 Member
    A REALLY good recipe for breakfast that includes avocado is as follows:

    Layer in this order;
    Toasted Whole Wheat english muffin half
    Slices of fresh avocado
    Hashbrowns(optional, its still great without it)
    A poached or over easy egg(salt and pepper to taste)
    Fresh lettuce and spinach
    Drizzle of balsalmic vinegar on top

    It is so rediculously good! I hope you try it.

    I need this in my life
  • pauldavis1028
    pauldavis1028 Posts: 2
    A lot of good ideas here.
    I tend to add mine to breakfast.
    I will do a plain cheese omelette, with usually a chicken breast sliced.
    maybe a biscuit.

    The ways you can use it are endless.
    I know that at the deli where I work, there are lots of people that add it as a spread for their sandwiches.
    This is a great way to introduce yourself to it.
    You also might try some of the recipes that are listed here from other members as well as asking some of your local eateries how they would use it.
    I know that while I was in school for Culinary arts that we did not use them that much, most people were just not that creative.
    I also have been know to grab a box of Triscuts (Cracked Black Pepper) and a fresh tomato and combine the three and have that for breakfast.
    Good Luck in finding ways to eat them!
  • Candi_land
    Candi_land Posts: 1,311 Member
    Bumping for ideas. But pretty much all I need is my face. MMM
  • JenniTheVeggie
    JenniTheVeggie Posts: 2,474 Member
    I don't know if I already replied to this or not....I'm not going back to look.

    I :heart: avocado. I eat it sliced or cubed with either:

    Salt and pepper
    Salt, pepper and lime juice
    Cilantro and lime juice
    Black beans, tomato, cilantro, lime juice and green onions
    On a veggie burger

    :heart:
  • teehee1211
    teehee1211 Posts: 39
    My favorite is an avocado chickpea salad

    1/4 avocado mashed w salt and lemon
    1/3 cup chickpeas
    1 cup shredded cabbage
    sesame soy dressing.

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