Features cooking avocado

Today, on the shelves of shops you can see previously unknown fruits and vegetables.One of them is avocado - an exotic fruit with an unusual creamy taste.

Avocado, or alligator pear - is the fruit of a green shade spherical, elongated or pear-shaped. It is covered with a hard, slightly wrinkled skin, under which lies a tender, oily flesh. In the middle of the fruit is a large ovoid bone, also covered with the skin.

The flesh has a yellowish, sometimes yellowish-green hue. It is used as food. The taste is sweetish, slightly tart, at the same time resembling a mixture of pumpkin and pear with a nutty aftertaste. Some compare the taste of avocado with the taste of butter, fat cream cheese.

The fruit is considered an effective natural remedy in the fight against old age. It contains a record amount of vitamin E (provides for the production of elastin and collagen, promotes healing of the reproductive system), as well as vegetable fats. The latter eliminate the "bad" cholesterol, thereby preventing the development of atherosclerosis.

In addition, avocados are rich in potassium, which also helps to improve the elasticity of blood vessels, skin condition. Finally, exot is considered a natural antioxidant that removes toxins from the body and promotes the enrichment of tissues with oxygen.

In addition, it strengthens the immune system, improves the functioning of the digestive tract, in particular, acts as a mild laxative. Alligator pear is considered an aphrodisiac, that is, it helps to increase potency.

Dishes from this amazing fruit should not be prepared well in advance, but only immediately before serving. If the cut fruit is not planned to be eaten immediately, then a bone should be left in its half, this will save it for up to 3 days without darkening.

Avocados go well with vegetables, cheeses, seafood and chicken. It is used to prepare sauces and pastes (the most famous is Mexican guacamole), added to salads, used as a fatty basis for vegetarian and pp-sweets.

Avocado appetizers are those dishes that are called “quick and tasty”. As a rule, we are talking about salads and sandwiches on the basis of the fruit.

You will need:

• 1 avocado fruit;
• olive oil - ½ or slightly less than a teaspoon;
• greens - a bunch of parsley, cilantro, dill;
• onions - 1 small head;
• baguette, toast bread or bread.

All ingredients, except bread and butter, should be washed, cleaned if necessary, cut into small pieces, and then chopped in a blender. Then add a drop of olive oil until the mixture acquires the consistency of the paste.

This paste spreads bread or bread. The “top” of a sandwich can be different. The combination with shrimps, salted red fish, pastor or a piece of baked meat, cucumber will be delicious.

If you cut the fruit lengthwise into two parts, remove the bone, and then scoop out the pulp from each half with a spoon, you will get the original boats. They can be filled with various salads - crab, "Caesar", vegetable mixes.

The proposed variant is distinguished by originality, besides it allows "to use" the extracted pulp. Ingredients:

• 1 avocado fruit;
• 500 g fresh-frozen shrimp;
• 3 cherry tomatoes (or 1 ordinary);
• Natural Greek yogurt (or sour cream, mayonnaise).

As already mentioned, avocados should be turned into “boats”. The flesh is finely cut into cubes, the tomatoes - in half (or also diced, if we are talking about a normal tomato).Throw the shrimp in boiling water (add a little of it, throw in peppercorns, bay leaf), boil for 5 minutes and drain in a colander. Cool, clean if necessary.

Mix all the ingredients and put them inside the avocado halves. Season with mayonnaise or natural yogurt, in which pre-add garlic pressed through a press.

One of the most famous dishes not only in Mexican, but also in world cuisines is avocado paste. At home, it is used as a side dish for meat or fish, spread on bread, added to salads. In a word, guacamole is a worthy alternative to unhealthy mayonnaise and ketchup. Ingredients:

• 3 avocado fruits;
• 2 tomatoes;
• 1 onion;
• 1 lime;
• cilantro bunch;
• 1 pod of chili;
• garlic clove.

Cooking begins with the preparation of vegetables. Tomatoes should be peeled. To do this, on their "ass" is a cross-cut, after which the vegetable is poured over boiling water. Now, a little pulling the corner, obtained during the incision, will be able to easily remove the skin. For convenience, tomatoes are sliced.

Chilli should be cut lengthwise and peeled from seeds, onions should also be peeled and cut into slices, peeled garlic clove.

Next, using a blender to puree the ingredients, adding to them also cilantro. After that 2 tablespoons of pure water are added to the gruel, lime juice is squeezed. In the original Mexican recipe, avocados are peeled, diced and added to pasta. After that, he kneaded a little fork, and the mixture is thoroughly mixed.

For breakfast alligator pear can be used as part of sandwiches. These are simple recipes that can be made even by people who are far from cooking. What is nice - these are quick recipes that require a minimum of products. The result will be a rich, healthy and balanced breakfast.

Bread with curd and avocado:

• 1 or ½ avocado fruit;
• A pack of bread;
• soft cheese in a briquette;
• cottage cheese;
• a small bunch of dill;
• salt to taste

All you need to do is chop the greens (you can punch in a blender, but not for long), knead the curd and mix the two components. Next, salt to taste the resulting pasta, put it on top of the loaf. Top with diced or thin slices of avocado.

If, after breakfast, you do not go to work, you can make the dish more piquant by adding crushed garlic to the cheese. Instead of loaves you can use baguette, toast bread and even croutons. True, the calorie snack will increase.

Eggs baked in avocado “pods”:

• 1 large avocado fruit;
• 2 or 4 chicken eggs (the amount depends on the category).

The fruit is cut into 2 parts, remove the bone and part of the pulp. Beat in the resulting "boats" eggs, salt to taste. Bake in an oven preheated to 200 degrees for 5-10 minutes.

Serve hot, garnished with herbs, cucumber and ham slices.

Avocados should not be baked for a long time, because the fruit will lose its elasticity, shape, becoming a mush. It is usually put on for 5-10 minutes in a preheated oven in combination with other ingredients.

Baked with chicken and avocado vegetables:

• 500 grams of chicken fillet (you can buy ready-made or cut from the breast);
• 1 avocado fruit;
• 1 orange;
• 1 Bulgarian pepper;
• half red or purple bulb;
• 5-10 cherry tomatoes;
• wasabi;
• soy sauce;
• 100 grams of durum cheese, grated as for pasta.

The first step is to prepare the breast. You can boil it and disassemble it into fiber, but it is tastier to cut into thin slices and fry in a small amount of oil on the hot side. Cool the prepared chicken.

Next, proceed to the preparation of the sauce - for this juice is squeezed out of the orange, which is mixed with wasabi and soy sauce. You can also cut onion into thin rings here.Orange gives the finished dish original sweet and sour notes.

You should also prepare the avocado - wash, cut into two halves, remove the bone, remove the pulp with a spoon. The last cut into cubes, as well - pepper. Cherry cut in halves. If desired, you can remove the skin (although these tomatoes are quite tender).

It remains to "collect" the dish. Pre-mix the chicken with vegetables and avocados, add the marinated onion rings. This mixture is filled with "boats" of avocado - it should be applied with a slide. Then the dish is watered with sauce and sent to the oven for 5-7 minutes at a temperature of 170-180 degrees. After a specified time, remove the delicacy and sprinkle it with grated cheese and send it back to the oven for 2-3 minutes until the cheese melts.

Unlike many fruits and vegetables, avocados are “friendly” with heat treatment, retaining most of the nutrients in this cooking method. The most famous delicacy of this kind can be considered avocado cream soup. The fruit here gives a real extravaganza of tastes, acts as a natural thickener.

Avocado Cream Soup:

• 2 avocado fruits;
• 500 ml vegetable broth;
• 100-150 g of crayfish necks, peeled boiled shrimp or seafood;
• 150 ml of coconut milk;
• salt, herbs to taste.

Pre-prepared vegetable broth, which is then brought to a boil. Avocados are peeled and cut in small pieces. Seafood is also cleaned, if necessary, boiled in salted water. Similarly, come with cancer necks.

Further, these ingredients are placed in the bowl of a blender together with coconut milk and squeezed to the state of a homogeneous slurry. Then it is transferred to an empty pan or stewpot, poured hot broth. The latter should be infused gradually, with constant stirring. The amount of broth is determined by eye to make a thick cream soup.

If such a recipe for soup seems too easy, "diet", you can cook a more rich analogue in chicken broth.

Avocado soup with chicken and vegetables:

• 2 avocado fruits;
• 500 g chicken fillet;
• 400 grams of canned tomatoes in their own juice;
• 2 onions;
• garlic clove;
• 2 l of chicken broth (can be non-fat beef);
• vegetable oil;
• 70 grams of grated cheese;
• spices - coriander, cumin, chili 1 teaspoon;
• 1 lime

First of all, you should heat the pan, add a little vegetable oil, in which to fry garlic squeezed through a press and diced onion. When they become transparent, add coriander, cover and extinguish for 1-2 minutes.

After that, the mixture should be pureed together with tomatoes and juice in a blender, and then return the resulting composition to the pan and sprinkle with cumin. Cook for 5 minutes until thick, stirring continuously.

The next step is to put the vegetable puree in a saucepan, add water, cook for 15 minutes. After this time, add thinly sliced ​​chicken to the vegetable broth and let the broth boil.

After that, add diced avocado, lime juice, cheese, chili into the soup. Stir and cook until the chicken is cooked.

Besides the fact that the fruit is rich in vitamins and microelements, it contains only 165 kcal per 100 g, and is also a “supplier” to the body of healthy fats. Natural fats and fiber, which are part of the alligator pear, make it effective in gaining muscle mass.

That is why avocados are widely used in PP-rations (PP - proper nutrition). On its basis, lean dishes, smoothies and slimming cocktails are prepared.

Vegetable salad with avocado:

• 2 avocado fruits;
• 2 cucumbers;
• 2 bell peppers of different colors;
• a big bunch of greenery;
• several leaves of Chinese cabbage;
• 2-3 tomatoes;
• 2 cloves of garlic;
• for dressing - 2 tablespoons of olive oil, 2 teaspoons of balsamic vinegar, 1 teaspoon of lemon juice, sesame seeds.

All vegetables are pre-washed and cleaned. Cabbage and peppers cut into thin strips, tomatoes (peeled from the skin) - diced, cucumber - in a semicircle. Peel the avocado, remove the bone, cut into thin plates.

Put cabbage, cucumbers, peppers, avocados, tomatoes in layers in a plate. Next, you need to mix all the ingredients (except sesame) for the sauce, add garlic pressed through a press. Thoroughly mix and pour salad dressing, sprinkle with sesame seeds.

This salad can be made more satisfying by adding quail eggs, sliced ​​in half or “plates” of red fish, fried chicken. In this case, the calorie content of the dish increases, it is better to use it as a self-made lunch or dinner.

From snacks and salads, you can go to a more satisfying hot PP-dishes. One of them is chickpeas with an alligator-based sauce. Chickpeas are especially loved by athletes who want to gain muscle mass, because this type of legume is rich in protein.

Chickpeas with avocado sauce:

• 400 grams of chickpea;
• 1 teaspoon salt;
• 1 avocado fruit;
• 3 tablespoons of olive oil;
• cilantro and parsley - on a bunch;
• garlic head;
• 1 teaspoon ground cumin.

Soak chickpeas in cold water for 5-6 hours, then rinse and cook until done (like peas). Do not allow cooking. Cooked chickpeas to cool and put on a dry baking sheet, and then place in an oven preheated to 180 ° C for 10-15 minutes. During this time, it is recommended to stir 1-2 times on the baking sheet. It is important to ensure that it is baked, being laid in one layer.

While chickpeas are prepared, you can make the sauce. To do this, in the blender bowl whip greens, garlic and avocado pulp. The mixture is brought to the desired consistency by adding oil.

Next you should get the beans, sprinkle them with cumin and pour a tablespoon of olive oil. You can serve chickpeas in this form with the sauce, and you can also puree in a blender.

Smoothies are very popular among slimming and athletes - these are thick cocktails based on vegetables, fruits and berries. Dilute them with water, as well as milk, natural yogurt without additives. Despite the fact that smoothies are drunk, but not eaten, it can be quite high-calorie, so you should include it in your daily calorie. Typically, this cocktail is used as a second breakfast or snack.

Fat Burning Smoothies:

• 2 avocado fruits;
• a bunch of spinach;
• 2 green apples;
• 2 Kiwis;
• 400 ml of mineral water without gas;
• bunch of parsley;
• honey, salt - to taste.

All ingredients must be washed and dried. Spinach and parsley can be torn by hand and placed in a blender bowl. Peeled kiwi fruit, pieces of apples without skin and seeds are sent there. Alligator pear is also cleaned, cut into pieces and added to the bowl.

Further, all the ingredients are whipped at low speed. Once a smooth mash is obtained, you can increase the speed, at the same time adding mineral water until the composition becomes airy.

Next, you can add salt and honey to taste and smooth the smoothie again.

Those who follow low-carb or protein diets do not eat sweets.However, the body may fall into depression because of this, which is why such nutritional principles provide for chitmal. Chitmil is a planned violation of the diet, which involves the use of prohibited foods (for example, sweets). Usually chitmil accounts for the 7-10 day diet.

Easy cocktail for chitmala:

• 2 avocado fruits;
• 100 grams of fresh strawberries;
• 2 ripe bananas;
• 250 ml of yogurt;
• 2 tablespoons of bitter chocolate or carob shavings;
• ½ lime;
• Mint leaves for decoration.

Wash strawberries and free from sepals. Banana peel and mash with a fork. Peel and slice the avocado. Then these ingredients are mashed, after which yogurt and lime juice are added to them. In conclusion, you should whip the cocktail again.

Exotic fruit is completely ready to eat immediately after purchase. Naturally, it should be washed thoroughly. Next is a vertical incision, due to which the avocado is divided into halves. In one of them will remain a large bone. It should be removed.

If the recipe involves the use of "boats" of avocado, the skin should be left, and most of the pulp removed. It is more convenient to do it with a dessert or a teaspoon.

If pulp is required, the peel is removed, the pulp is cut into cubes, thin plates or mashed.

If the purchased avocado is not fully ripe, there is a way to help it do it. It is necessary to place the fruit for 2-3 days in a dry dark place. You can speed up the ripening process by putting an alligator pear in a kraft package along with a ripe banana.

It is better not to cook solid avocados - it will not give up its creamy consistency, it will not make the dish light and juicy.

Choose a mature avocado will allow light pressure on his finger. Optimally, if the skin is slightly pressed through - the fruit has reached optimum maturity. If it is hard, then the avocado needs to lie down a bit to mature. When pressed, the finger literally "leaves" the fetus, and then a dent remains on the product? The fruit is overripe and, most likely, spoiled.

It is possible to determine the degree of maturity by color: ripe fruits have a yellow-green hue, immature fruits are saturated green. If you shake an exotic pear, you can hear the dry knock of the bone inside.

If the cutting is preserved, you should pay attention to its shade. A light yellow stalk indicates the fruit’s juiciness, while a dark brown indicates that it has retired.

Like any product, avocado requires moderate consumption. Naturally, it should not be taken in case of individual intolerance. It is not recommended that children eat the fetus, as well as people suffering from diseases of the pancreas, liver.

All others can eat half of the fruit or a whole avocado per day. If there are contraindications (except for allergies), the rate should be reduced to 5-6 slices, and the frequency of administration to 3 times a week.

See how to make avocado sandwiches in the next video.