Product Category: Avocado

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup frozen corn kernels
• Pork mince
• 1 large Blush® truss tomato, coarsely chopped
• 1/2 pkt salt-reduced taco seasoning
• 4 wholemeal pizza bases
• 1/2 cup coarsely grated reduced-fat pizza cheese
• 1 avocado, peeled, seeded, finely chopped
• 1/2 cup fresh coriander leaves

Method

1. Preheat oven to 220°C. Heat a large non-stick frying pan over medium-high heat. Add the pork mince and cook, stirring with a wooden spoon to break up any lumps for 5 minutes or until mince changes colour. Add the corn, tomato and taco seasoning and cook, stirring, for 5 minutes or until mixture is well combined and heated through. Remove from heat.
2. Place the pizza bases on an oven tray. Sprinkle evenly with the grated cheese. Spoon the pork mixture evenly among the pizza bases. Bake in preheated oven for 10 minutes or until cheese melts and the pizza bases are crisp. Remove from heat.
3. Meanwhile, combine the avocado and coriander in a small bowl. Place the pizzas on a clean work surface and use a large sharp knife to cut each pizza into quarters. Top each quarter with avocado mixture. Serve immediately.

Tips
Use beef or chicken mince instead of pork.

Recipe sourced from Australian Avocados.

Ingredients

Brownies

• 2 x 250g ripe avocados, halved lengthways and deseeded
• 2 tbs lemon juice
• 200g dark chocolate, chopped
• 1 ½ cups caster sugar
• 4 eggs, lightly beaten
• 1/3 cup cocoa powder, sifted
• 3/4 cup plain flour, sifted
• 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
• Icing sugar, for dusting
• Strawberries, halved, to serve

Avocado ice-cream

• 1 litre vanilla ice-cream
• 1 just-ripe avocado, halved lengthways
• 1 tbs lemon juice

Method

Brownies

1. Preheat oven to 180ºC/ 160ºC fan-forced.
2. Grease and line a 20cm square cake pan with baking paper. 
3. Place chocolate in a heatproof bowl over a saucepan of simmering water. Stir until smooth.
4. Scoop avocado flesh into a large bowl and add lemon juice. 
5. Using a stick blender, blend avocado until smooth (it is important to not have any lumps).
6. Add sugar, eggs, cocoa, flour, baking powder and chocolate to avocados.  Mix until well combined.
7. Pour mixture into prepared pan. Bake for 25 minutes or until just set. Allow brownie to cool completely in pan.

Avocado ice-cream

1. Place ice-cream into a bowl and stand at room temperature until just softened. 
2. Scoop avocado flesh into a bowl; add lemon juice and mash until almost smooth.
3. Stir avocado through ice-cream until just combined
4. Spoon into an airtight container.  
5. Freeze for 3-4 hours or until ready to serve

Recipe sourced from Australian Avocados. Click here for direct link to recipe.

Ingredients

• 1 avocado
• 2 small eggs
• 2 slices of toast
• Sea salt
• Black pepper

Method

1. Pre-heat oven to 220c.
2. Slice an avocado in half and whip out the seed.  Scoop the hole left over until big enough to fit egg the size of your choice.
3. In a mid-sized baking dish, prop up your avocados so that they don’t fall over.
4. Crack an egg into each hole.
5. Add salt and black pepper to taste.
6. Carefully slot the baking dish into the oven and bake for 15 minutes. Time will vary depending on size of avocado. Check the egg while baking for the desired effect.
7. Sprinkle the garnish of your choice on-top, scoop it and spread it or just grab a spoon and have at it! 

Recipe sourced from Australian Avocados.

Ingredients

• 320g cooked sushi rice
• Pinch of sushi rice seasoning
• 2 sheets of nori (roasted seaweed)
• ½ avocado, sliced lengthways
• ¼ cucumber, sliced lengthways
• Rolling mat (to roll your maki)
• Wasabi, to serve
• Soy sauce, to serve

Method

1. Rinse the sushi rice before cooking over a gentle heat
2. Add the sushi rice seasoning to the cooked rice and combine
3. Once the rice is cooked and seasoned, spread out on a plate to cool
4. Once the rice is cool, place a sheet of nori on your rolling mat and press half the cooked rice evenly onto the nori sheet, leaving 2 cm of nori at the top to seal the roll
5. Across the middle of the nori and rice, add a couple of lengths of the avocado and cucumber, if you like wasabi, spread a bit across too
6. Lightly wet the 2 cm of nori with water and tightly roll
7. Let rest and repeat for the second roll
8. Cut each roll into eight pieces
9. Serve with wasabi and soy sauce

Recipe sourced from Australian Avocados.

Ingredients

• 1 large firm ripe avocado, stone removed, peeled, diced
• 250g cherry tomatoes, halved
• ¼ cup fresh basil leaves, torn
• 2 tsp olive oil
• 1 tsp lemon juice
• 4 large slices sour dough bread
• Lemon wedges, to serve

Method

1. Place avocado, tomatoes, basil, olive oil and lemon juice in a medium size bowl.
2. Season with sea salt and freshly ground black pepper. Gently stir to combine.
3. Toast or grill bread until golden.
4. To serve, spoon ¼ of the avocado mixture over each slice of bread. Serve with a wedge of lemon.

Recipe sourced from Australian Avocados. Click here for direct link to recipe.