[iwanttogoback]

my neighbour has just given me four big, fat avocadoes which should be ripe in four or five days.

does anyone have any recipes using avocado that they might like to share?

[jyotirmoy]

Chicken noodles with Avocado, Bacon cheese Avocado omelet or Chicken Avocado soup, which one?

[jyotirmoy]

Ok you may try this filling thing:

INGREDIENTS:
1 cup broad flat green noodles
1 large ripe avocado, peeled and sliced
2 tablespoons fresh lime juice
1/2 cup butter
1/4 cup flour
1 teaspoon salt
5 dashes Tabasco sauce
2-1/4 Half & half (dairy type)
1 cup grated cheddar cheese
6 (6-ounce) boneless, skinless chicken breast halves, (approximately 2 pounds) poached
1/2 cup roasted, peeled, and coarsely chopped fresh chiles or 1 (4-ounce) can whole green chiles, chopped coarse
PREPARATION:
Prepare noodles according to package directions, drain, and set aside.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.

Drizzle avocado slices with lime juice and set aside.

Melt butter in a 2-quart saucepan over low heat. Stir in flour, salt, and Tabasco over low heat until mixture bubbles. Add half-and-half slowly, stirring constantly until mixture thickens. Add cheddar cheese and stir until it has melted. Reserve 1 cup of this sauce. Mix remainder with cooked noodles. Place chicken in bottom of a 9 x 12 x 3-inch rectangular baking dish. Cover with chopped green chiles. Spoon noodle mixture over chicken and chiles. Place avocado slices on top and pour reserved sauce over avocados. Bake, uncovered, 35 minutes.

Yield: 6 servings.

[Hyderabadi]

Never liked Avocado. No comments.

[iwanttogoback]

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Never liked Avocado. No comments.

damn, i was hoping for a patio recipe!!

thanks jyoti, i knew you'd have something. when they're ripe i'll let you know how it went.

[cyberhippie]

Tuna, Rice and Avocado salad.

Rice
Tomato
Sweetcorn
Canned Tuna
Avocado
Lemon
Virgin Olive Oil
White wine vinegar
Sea Salt
Cracked pepper

Boil rice and allow to cool
Marinade the tomatoes and sweetcorn in the olive oil, lemon, and vinegar.
Drain the tinned tuna and add to the cooled rice mix through.
Add the tomatoes and sweetcorn, including the vinaigrette.
Slice The avocado meat  and add to the rice, tomatoe etc, mix through gently.
Add salt and pepper to your taste.
Chill in the fridge.

Great with Baguette and creamy butter on a hot day!

[noflylist]

Avocado salsa

Grind Avocado, cut tomato, pepper, mix it up.

Chips, Salsa, shredded cheese - send me some!

[jyotirmoy]

Yes noflylist this salsa is very good. Natchos go very well it.

[Hyderabadi]

iwanttogoback, on Aug 4 2007, 08:29 AM, said:

damn, i was hoping for a patio recipe!!

OK.  

I said no comments because I'd probably say some thing nasty, but come to think of it.... talking of patio recipes....here's a really nice one:

1.Select as many ripened Avocados as you can, put them in a 'lap-sized-basket'.
2.Invite neighborhood goats/lamb outside your patio.
   (If you do not have any goats/lambs living in your neighborhood, move to one which has them.)
3.Relax on your favourite chair in the patio with the lap-sized-basket-with-avocados-in-it.
4.Pick one ripe Avocado after another, take careful aim at the best looking goat/lamb. Throw it at him/her.
5.Watch him/her enjoy it.
6.Repeat every day for a couple of months or until all Avocados and the plants/trees/whatever-they-grow-on are completely eliminated.
7.Identify the goat/lamb that ate most of the Avocados.
8.(I said 'No Comments' for a reason) Look here for visual representation for next step:  
9.Step 9  
10.Sit on your patio, preferably when it's raining and slightly chill with a Kashmir shawl around your shoulders.
11.Enjoy with Double-Ka-Roti or Naan, or Phulka, or Chapati, or Tandoori Roti or Rice, or.....

Can a Avocado recipe get any more versatile than this?                                    I think not.

Edited by Hyderabadi, 04 August 2007 - 09:53 PM.

[iwanttogoback]

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7.Identify the goat/lamb that ate most of the Avocados.
8.(I said 'No Comments' for a reason) Look here for visual representation for next step:
9.Step 9

    

[70s-80s overlander]

Wow! I was excited to hear that one could even get avocados in India! For a diabetic like myself, fresh avocado is an idea food.(1)Then a quick Google search revealed that avocado is not yet a commercial crop for India even though it can be grown in Tamil Nadu and in Sikkim.(2)

(1)  see, for example: “A low-carbohydrate, ketogenic diet to treat type 2 diabetes.”
Yancy WS et al. Nutr Metab (Lond). 2005 Dec 1;2:34.  http://www.ncbi.nlm....t_uids=16318637
(2) see, for example: “Avocados : The Alternate Fruit Variety Future India.” Parminder. Jul 16, 2007
http://citizenxpress.../blog/view/3195 [this is an excellent article!]

[jyotirmoy]

Yes it is possible to get anything you want these days in the metros but Avacado is not popular in India and is not grown. Tamil Nadu & Sikkim are very different places so I wonder how both can be suitable for Avacado farming.
Thanks overlander I was not aware that Avacado is good for diabetic persons. Well we learn every day.

[70s-80s overlander]

As the cited article points out, avocado would be an ideal food for solving many of India's nutritional problems. Among other things, for example, it is high in magnesium. In regard to where it would be grown in India, yes, I, too, was surprised about Sikkim -- but, then, I was surprised to find bananas growing in the hills around Kathmandu, Nepal.  
[I have an avocado sandwich every mid-morning. It provides quick energy AND has anti-inflammatory action for whatever sore joints one might have.]

[iwanttogoback]

half an avocado, still in the skin, slit and sprinkled with lemon juice and a little salt and eaten with a teaspoon...

guys, thanks for the recipes, i'm going to try them all. oh, except the goat, but only because there are no goats in the neighbourhood...

[jyotirmoy]

Overlander, now I am interested....

[dzibead]

Hyderabadi, on Aug 4 2007, 05:02 AM, said:

Never liked Avocado. No comments.

I love avocados now.  But the first time I tasted one (as an adult - they didn't exist where I grew up) I thought it tasted like it was made of melted plastic grocery bags.

[dzibead]

iwanttogoback, on Aug 4 2007, 09:36 PM, said:

half an avocado, still in the skin, slit and sprinkled with lemon juice and a little salt and eaten with a teaspoon....

or a little balsamic vinegar instead of lemon juice ... m-m-m

overlander, I had no idea avocados were so healthful!  And oranges grow in Sikkim, so avocados might be "a natural" there.   Sikkim: "The California of India"  

[iwanttogoback]

california " the sikkim of america"...

[WonderWomanUSA]

I got this from a cooking forum; haven' tried it but it sounds really good. The notes about how it might be prepared differently are from the person who posted it there,

CHILLED AVACADO SOUP FLAVORED WITH TARRAGON

Source: Le Titi de Paris, Buffalo Grove, Illinois (recently voted Best French
        Restaurant in the North Shore Readers' Choice Awards)
Serves 4

Ingredients

1     Fresh Haas Avacado
1C    Chicken strock
1/2C  Cold water
1T    Fresh lime juice
2oz   Plain yogurt
2t    Chopped fresh tarragon
2oz   Sour cream, plus 4T for garnish
Salt and White pepper to taste

Procedure

Peel and pit avacado. Place in blender with stock, water, lime juice, yogurt,
1t tarragon and sour cream. Blend until smooth. Taste and adjust seasonings.
Refrigerate until chilled in an airtight continer. To serve, mix sour cream
garnish with remaining tarragon. Pour soup into bowls; garnish with sour
cream and diced tomato.

Hint: You can use any fresh herb you might prefer.

Note: When I had this as an amuse bouche, tiny slivers of smoked salmon were
mixed in with the sour cream; a very tasty addition.

I would do it a bit differently, cooking the onions separately until caramelized. Also cook the mushrooms very well adding water if necessary at least half an hour as I find the flavor gets very much better and strong with long slow cooking. Also, I love tomato paste but don't see the reason for the tomato paste in this recipe. Would rather use 2 teaspoons lemon juice.

[WonderWomanUSA]

And one other avocado recipe that I've never tried -- this one from Ivory Coast:

Chilled Avocado Soup from the Ivory Coast
(Soupe d'avocat abidjanaise)

This thick, clean-tasting soup cries out "tropics"--bright plumage with the bite of pepper and lime. Chances are you won't be able to find the creamy thin-skinned purple avocado varietals native to the Ivory Coast, but buttery Haas avocados are just as good. Serve this to 4 people as a rich first course.

2 very ripe avocados
4 cups cold chicken or vegetable stock
2 Tablespoons lime juice
1 Tablespoon plain yoghurt
2 hefty dashes of Tabasco sauce
salt and black pepper
Garnish: 4 paper-thin slices of lime and Tabasco sauce

Dump the avocado flesh into a blender and puree. Add the stock and continue processing until smooth. Blend in the lime juice, yoghurt, Tabasco sauce, and salt and pepper. Refrigerate for at least one hour.

When ready to serve, spoon into bowls, top each with a thin lime slice, and sprinkle a bit of Tabasco sauce over each portion.