Avocado Recipes: 12 Tips for Enjoying the Fruit

Everyone loves avocado recipes! The fruit is versatile, which allows the chefs on duty to do it freedom to create different dishes. No wonder our list has 12 savory and sweet avocado recipe options!

Avocado is a widely consumed fruit throughout Latin America, especially here in Brazil. Confess, if you’ve ever eaten avocado with sugar, you know that this fruit is very tasty and very easy to eat when you strike hunger between meals.

The benefits of the fruit are many: ccontains fiber, potassium, copper, vitamins B, K and C, monounsaturated fats – those that are good for the heart – and antioxidants. In addition to being tasty, it gives satiety, making the fruit ideal for those on a diet!

The fruit is good for heart health, eye health, aids in weight loss and is able to reduce cortisol, the hormone that causes stress. It’s better than eating it in natureprecisely by preparing recipes with avocado, which can be both savory and sweet.

Taking advantage of the fact that the fruit is easy to find at fairs and fruit and vegetable markets in general, take the opportunity to make one of the 12 recipes with avocado that you can see in the list below:

Quick and easy avocado recipes for any time of day:

Snacks of chicken, avocado and olives

Weather: 15 minutes

Performance: 12 portions

Difficulty: easy

Ingredients:

• 1 meter bread
• 2/3 cup of mayonnaise
• 1/3 cup chopped black olives
• 2 1/2 cups (tea) cooked, shredded chicken breast
• 2 cups of grated mozzarella
• 1 thinly sliced ​​avocado
• 1/2 bunch iceberg lettuce, cut into strips
• salt to taste
• Black olives to decorate

Method of preparation:

1. Slice the bread horizontally and set aside.
2. In a bowl mix the mayonnaise with the olives and spread on the two halves of the bread.
3. Spread out the chicken, mozzarella, avocado and lettuce.
4. Season with salt and close the snack.
5. Garnish with black olives, slice and serve.

original guacamole

Weather: 15 minutes

Performance: 8 portions

Difficulty: easy

Ingredients:

• 3 avocados
• 1 grated onion
• 1 chopped seedless tomato
• 1 seedless chilli, minced
• 1 lemon juice
• salt to taste
• Doritos®-style snacks to accompany

Method of preparation:

1. Remove the flesh from the avocados and, in a bowl, mash them with a fork to form a paste.
2. Add the grated onion, the chopped tomatoes, the seedless chilli and mix.
3. Add the lemon juice and season with salt.
4. Mix until smooth.
5. Place in a small refractory and serve with the Doritos® snacks around.

Sandwich with avocado paste

Weather: 10 minutes

Performance: 4 portions

Difficulty: easy

Ingredients:

• 4 slices of white cheese
• 8 slices of black bread

avocado paste:

• 2 avocados, diced (flesh only)
• 1 chopped onion
• 1 lemon juice
• Olive oil and salt to taste

Method of preparation:

1. For the pasta, mix the avocado, onion, lemon juice, olive oil and salt in a bowl.
2. Mash with a fork until you get a paste.
3. Prepare sandwiches by placing avocado paste and cheese slices between two slices of bread.
4. Serve immediately.

Avocado Salad

Weather: 20 minutes

Performance: 6 portions

Difficulty: easy

Ingredients:

• 1 bunch iceberg lettuce, cut into strips
• 1 cup cherry tomatoes (halved)
• 2 sliced ​​avocados
• 1 lemon juice
• Salt, black pepper, olive oil and coriander sprigs to taste

Method of preparation:

1. Arrange the lettuce in a salad bowl, arrange the tomatoes, avocado and drizzle with the lemon juice.
2. Sprinkle over the cilantro sprigs and drizzle with salt, pepper and olive oil before serving.

Tuna and avocado sandwich

Weather: 15 minutes

Performance: 4 portions

Difficulty: easy

Ingredients:

• 1 can of tuna
• 2 chopped green onions
• 2 tablespoons of mayonnaise
• 1 teaspoon of salt
• 1 ripe avocado
• 1 tablespoon of lemon juice
• 4 slices of crustless rye bread
• Lime wedges, avocado wedges and parsley for garnish

Method of preparation:

1. In a bowl, break up the tuna.
2. Stir in the chives, 1 tablespoon mayonnaise, and salt.
3. Cut the avocado in half, peel it, slice it and pour the lemon juice over it.
4. Stuff two slices of bread with the tuna mixture, cover with the avocado slices and spread the rest of the mayonnaise.
5. Close the sandwich with the other two slices and garnish with lemon, avocado and parsley.

Sweet recipes with avocado

avocado smoothie

Weather: 20 minutes

Performance: 4 portions

Difficulty: easy

Ingredients:

• Pulp of 1 ripe avocado
• 1 jar of low-fat natural yogurt (200g)
• 1 1/2 cups ice-cold coconut water
• 1/2 pear, peeled and seeded, chopped
• 1/2 cup mint (chopped)
• 1 tablespoon of oats
• honey, to taste
• mint to decorate

Method of preparation:

1. In blender, beat avocado, yogurt, coconut water, pear, mint, oatmeal and honey.
2. Switch off as soon as the smoothie has a creamy and homogeneous consistency.
3. Transfer the avocado smoothie to glasses and garnish with mint leaves.
4. Serve immediately with straws.

Avocado cream with muesli and honey

Weather: 10 minutes

Performance: 10 portions

Difficulty: easy

Ingredients:

• Pulp of 1 ripe avocado
• 500 ml of skimmed milk
• 1 lemon juice
• 1/2 cup (tea) of fructose
• Muesli of your choice for dusting
• Honey to taste for seasoning

Method of preparation:

1. In the blender, blend the avocado pulp, milk, lemon juice and fructose until it is homogeneous and smooth.
2. Transfer to individual bowls, sprinkle with granola, drizzle with honey, and serve immediately.

avocado pudding

Weather: 20min (+4h of fridge)

Performance: 8 portions

Difficulty: easy

Ingredients:

• 1 sachet of unflavored gelatin powder
• 4 tablespoons of water
• 1 pack of lemon flavored gelatin powder
• 1 cup boiling water (tea)
• 1/3 cup lemon juice (lemon)
• Pulp of 1 ripe avocado
• 2 cups sugar (tea)
• Ready whipped cream and avocado pieces to decorate

Method of preparation:

1. Hydrate the unflavored gelatin in water and dissolve it in a water bath.
2. Blend the lemon jelly dissolved in the boiling water, the lemon juice, the avocado and the sugar in a mixer until you obtain a homogeneous mixture.
3. Pour into a medium decorated mould, moistened with water, and leave to rest in the fridge for 4 hours.
4. Unmold, unmold and decorate with whipped cream and avocado pieces.
5. Serve immediately.

Avocado mousse with caramel sauce

Weather: 1h (+3h fridge)

Performance: 12 portions

Difficulty: easy

Ingredients:

• 1 sachet of unflavored gelatin powder
• 1 cup of water (tea)
• 1 chopped avocado
• 1/2 cup (tea) sugar
• 1 can of condensed milk
• lemon zest to decorate

Caramel

• 1 1/2 cups (tea) sugar
• 3/4 cup water (tea)

Method of preparation:

1. Dissolve and hydrate gelatin in water according to package directions.
2. Beat all the ingredients in the blender until a homogeneous mixture is formed.
3. Melt the sugar in a saucepan until it starts to caramelize, add the water and stir for another 2 minutes.
4. Pour a little caramel into individual cups, add the mousse and finish with the remaining caramel.
5. Refrigerate for 3 hours.
6. Decorate with lemon zest.

Strawberry avocado cream

Weather: 10 minutes

Performance: 6 portions

Difficulty: easy

Ingredients:

• Pulp of 1 ripe avocado
• 1/2 cup (tea) of milk
• 1 lemon juice
• 1 cup condensed milk (tea)
• 300 g of chopped strawberries

Method of preparation:

1. In blender, beat avocado, milk, lemon juice and condensed milk until smooth and creamy.
2. Transfer to bowls decorated with strawberries and serve afterwards.

Avocado ice cream with cherry jam

Weather: 10 minutes

Performance: 2 portions

Difficulty: easy

Ingredients:

• 5 tablespoons of light cherry jam
• 2 tablespoons of lemon juice
• 1 avocado
• 2 cups of ice cream (tea)

Method of preparation:

1. In a pan, put the gelatin with 1 tablespoon of lemon juice and stir until it boils.
2. Remove from heat and set aside.
3. In the food processor, put the avocado pulp and the remaining lemon juice.
4. Process and add the ice cream.
5. Place in individual bowls and cover with jam.
6. Serve immediately.

Avocado cake

Weather: 1h (+1h of fridge)

Performance: 8 portions

Difficulty: easy

Ingredients:

• 2 cups wheat flour (tea)
• 1 tablespoon of baking powder
• Juice of 1/2 lemon
• 1 ripe avocado
• 4 eggs
• 1 cup of oil (tea)
• 1 cup (tea) of sugar
• Margarine and flour for greasing

Roof

• 1 can of condensed milk
• 6 tablespoons of lemon juice
• 1 jar of cream (without whey)
• Lemon zest for garnish

Method of preparation:

1. Put the flour and baking powder in a bowl, mix well and set aside.
2. Beat the remaining ingredients in the blender and mix in the reserved flour and baking powder.
3. Place in a buttered and floured 25cm round cake tin.
4. Bake in a preheated medium oven for 30 minutes, or until a toothpick comes out clean.
5. Remove from the oven and unmold.
6. Mix the topping ingredients together and spread over the cooled cake.
7. Decorate with the lemon zest and refrigerate for 1 hour.

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