How to eat a Avocado

[Ampli]

It don't have a good taste as fruit, because it isn't sweet.

So, how can I eat this fruit???

All advise and recipe will be appreciated.

[kahili]

I love avocados. There are many different kinds and they all taste differently, but I love them just cut up with soy sauce and black pepper. Quarter them and the skin peels right off if they are ripe. I eat them a lot with rice and beans or salads etc.

[Ampli]

Hi kahili, thanks for the advise.

[KPL]

Giovanni,

Try this, remove the seed and add cottage cheese in the center.

Sounds a little different, but very good.

KPL

[Breadfruit Bill]

Guacamole!!

smash avocado meat with a fork, add diced tomato, a couple dashes of lemon juice, some worcestershire and garlic salt to taste.

serve with tortilla chips!

[Kathryn]

Use a non-sharp knife (such as a butter knife) to chop up the avocado in the shell. Add a little olive oil, vinegar, salt and pepper (or any salad dressing you like). Eat from shell.

[BS Man about Palms]

I live 20 miles from what is supposed to be the Avocado capital of the world... Fallbrook, California. As has been said, the type you have has a lot to do with the taste. The Haas has be come a mainstay due too its good taste and shipping durability. The Fuerte is my favorite, but ships poorly. The Bacon, has a nutty taste and is better "in or with" something rather than eaten alone. I think there are over 70 varieties..

The fruit should be "mashable" in your hand (yielding to moderate pressure) then you know it is ripe. For those in the know, often the uglier an Avocado looks outside, the better it tastes inside! (Most will turn some shade of brown outside to be ripe, some will be very dark brown..)

That being said, raw if a fuerte! But, with mayo, or garlic salt, or cream cheese, sour cream, cottage cheese, or any combination thereof!

Enjoy!

[Kim]

Avocado is versatile and can be consumed in many flavorful ways. Add slices to a green salad, put a few slivers in an omelette at the last minute, or lay some thin slices inside your turkey sandwich. For breakfast, I like to toast 1/2 a bagel, add a smear of cream cheese, top with diced or sliced avocado and diced tomato, maybe a dash of Tobasco sauce. Kind of like bruschetta!

[MattyB]

Our Hass & Fuerte avos have been yeilding for many months now. I love that you can leave the fruit on the tree for a long period of time and pick only what you want to use that week. We just half it, remove the seed, put salt on it and eat it with a spoon. Sometimes we squeeze some lime on it as well. Yummmmmmmmmmm

[sur4z]

My favorite is the large green Florida avocado (of course)...when ripe I cut in half the long way, remove the seed and fill up the whole with salad dressing of choice.

[DoomsDave]

Cut up the avocado into tiny pieces and sprinkle on pasta with clam sauce. The more garlic in the clam sauce the better.

A slice of avocado with some rye bread, some cheese and ham, also good.

La Habra is one of the avocado capitals of the world. This used to be a commerical avocado farm, but now it's a house farm . . . .

If you get bored, avocados throw well, and make the best splat . . . . (Cucina lotta . . . . )

[Really full garden]

GUATEMALA is the center of the universe for avocadoes.This is where it all began. I am fond of cold avocado soup. Use only ripe avocadoes. Blend 3 or 4 avocadoes, half cup chicken stock, 1 cup plain yogurt in the blender until smooth.Chill for several hours.Salt ,pepper to taste and serve with diced cucumber on top.

[aussiearoids]

green slime smoothie bought at juice bar many years ago ,,

orange juice and frozen yoghurt an avocado , whiz and enjoy

Consider it natures butter and use on sandwiches .

An excellent guacamole I have made had tomatillos and lots of cilantro , a very different flavour .

guaca is native word for avacado , and mole means thick sauce .

Infinite variations , I love lime juice and chillis , and often make a meal of a large bowl .

[trioderob]

this is the best way to eat them bar none

(I make it this way all the time. then I watch horror movies while eating it - ohhh yeaa)

rosa mexicana guacamole

This recipe is based on one in Rosa's New Mexican Table by Roberto Santibañez (Artisan, 2007); it's for the same dish that is prepared at Rosa Mexicano restaurants in New York City. "It is our signature dish—nine out of ten guests order it," says Santibañez. "One of the things that make our guacamole special is that when we opened, in 1984, we were among the first, if not the first, restaurants on either side of the border to serve it prepared tableside in a traditional molcajete [a mortar made from volcanic rock]." We think it's the best guacamole we've ever had.

Ingredients:

1 tbsp white onion

cilantro

jalapeno

3 hass avocado

3 tbps diced tomato

2 tbs chopped cilantro

Tortilla chips

Preparation:

1. Grind 1 tbsp. finely chopped white onion, 1 firmly packed tbsp. chopped fresh cilantro, 2 tsp. finely chopped jalapeño, and 1 tsp. salt together in a molcajete until all the ingredients are well ground. (Alternatively, use a fork to mash the ingredients to a paste in a wide bowl.)

2. Cut 3 medium-ripe hass avocados (about 8 ounces each) in half. Twist the halves to separate them and remove the pit with the tip of the knife. Place an avocado half, cut side up, in your palm and make 3 or 4 evenly spaced lengthwise cuts through its flesh down to the skin, without cutting through the skin. Make 4 crosswise cuts in the same fashion.

3. Scoop the diced avocado flesh into the molcajete. Repeat with remaining avocado halves. Gently fold the avocado into the chile–onion paste, keeping the avocado pieces fairly intact.

4. Add 3 tbsp. diced tomato, 2 firmly packed tbsp. chopped fresh cilantro, and 1 tbsp. finely chopped white onion.

5. Fold together all the ingredients. Taste and add salt, if necessary.

6. Serve immediately, directly from the molcajete (or bowl), with tortilla chips. Makes 4 servings

Edited April 4, 2011 by trioderob

[Dypsisdean]

When I first read the topic title, I thought it was a joke.

There is no way that you can't eat an avocado. It goes with everything. I've even seen milkshakes made with it.

[Ampli]

Hi people, thanks to all for the advise!!!

So, I have to consider the avocado more like a vegetable than a fruit.

I'll try to put it in salads and make guacamole and if I will not like his taste, I'll follow the David's advise and I'll use it to unload stess!!!

[palmmermaid]

Well, technically most vegetables are fruits. A fruit is the fertilized ovary of a flower. Now vegetables like potatoes are not fruits. And many fruits are not sweet but bitter.

[Walter John]

love it spread on toast for brekky, add pepper, and do the cha cha cha...

[The Silent Seed]

Guys,

What do you do with all your seeds? I'd love to offer to take them off your hands, if you are a "big avocado eater" - I'm happy to help with postage, or swap you something else.

(Or any other fruit seeds, for that matter.)

[calyptrocalyx&licuala freck]

YUMMM.......Great topic

Mikey .

[Ampli]

Hi Guys, I followed your advise and I tried a sandwich with Avocado (Hass), fried eggs and salad.

And this is my face during I eat the sandwich. :drool::drool::drool::drool::drool:

The next time I'll try to make a guacamole sauce.

Thanks to all!!!

[updog]

Try putting some in a blender with some sweetener and ice and a little water. Swiral a little chocotate syrup on top and enjoy Balinese style.

[paulgila]

i just happen to have an example of that!

[BS Man about Palms]

Try putting some in a blender with some sweetener and ice and a little water. Swiral a little chocotate syrup on top and enjoy Balinese style.

[nachocarl]

One just ripe large chopped avocado mixed with pico de gallo (diced tomato (orange better than extra ripe red) white onion, cilantro, jalapeños or Serrano chilies, key/mexican lime juice and salt.

Add boiled shrimp (chilled) and serve on a tostado shell.

If in Ensenada replace boiled shrimp with Pismo clams, raw and fresh.

Other ingredients that can be included with or replacing the shrimp are scallops, octopus, and lobster.

Should be served with a mexican beer and a nice snifter of one’s favorite tequila! I like Casa Noble Anejo or Reposado.

MMMMM hungry.

[paulgila]

Try putting some in a blender with some sweetener and ice and a little water. Swiral a little chocotate syrup on top and enjoy Balinese style.

and this means...?

[BS Man about Palms]

Try putting some in a blender with some sweetener and ice and a little water. Swiral a little chocotate syrup on top and enjoy Balinese style.

and this means...?

It means what it looks like. Confusion and wonderment... the way I live my life.

[paulgila]

thats not true. you live your life by trying the most outrageous food,buying the ugliest & most expensive palm,driving the ungainliest british car.now when someone says "try a blended avocado drink" you get all wussified.

that is not the bill sanford i know.

[BS Man about Palms]

Did you see any where that I said I WOULDN'T try it?

You are misinterpreting my yellow faces..

oops

[paulgila]

[waykoolplantz]

if youre a squirrel in Florida you take just a bite of each and every one on the tree

[JEFF from Trabuco Canyon CA]

Here is a cool poster!

http://www.fruitlovers.com/AvocadoPoster.html