Avocado Recipes
Ripe avocados, put to work — avocado pasta, avocado toast with a poached egg, mango avocado salsa, and shrimp avocado rice bowls for busy weeknights.
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lunchAvocado Pasta
I saw this recipe on YouTube from a creator called "growingannanas" and knew I had to try it, it is SO BEYOND DELICIOUS and is now definitely one of my go-to lunch options
Sara DIngredients
- 1 cup Rotini Pasta
- 1 Avocado
- 1 handful Spinach
- 4 tablespoons Lemon juice
- 1 clove Garlic (or 1/4 tsp garlic powder)
- 1/3 cup Pasta water
- 2 tablespoons Grated parmesan cheese
- pinch Salt
- pinch Black pepper
- 2 teaspoons Olive oil
Instructions
- 1Boil and salt water and cook pasta for 9 minutes
- 2Strain pasta and set aside (make sure to save 1/3 cup of the pasta water)
- 3In a blender add the avocado, spinach, lemon juice, garlic, pasta water, cheese, salt, pepper, olive oil blend till smooth
- 4Add pasta to your bowl with desired amount of your avocado sauce and stir till well combined
- 5Finally top with red pepper flakes (this is completely optional but I love red pepper and avocado together) and enjoy
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Open in Pepper →What To Do With A Ripe Avocado
An avocado gives you about a day and a half of perfect, and you can feel that clock ticking every time you press your thumb to the skin. The good news is it does not take much — mashed on toast, tossed hot with pasta, diced over rice — to turn one into dinner.
Cooks on Pepper reach for these when the fridge is thin and there are two soft avocados on the counter, or when it is too hot to cook much and a bowl with rice and something cold and creamy sounds exactly right.
Every recipe here leans on that soft green center: Avocado Pasta with spinach, Avocado Toast & Poached Egg, chicken pasta with avocado, tomato and basil, mango avocado salsa, a turkey avocado sandwich, and the TikTok salmon avocado rice.
Quick Tips
- 1
Check ripeness at the stem
Pop off the little stem nub — green underneath means ready, brown means it is past its prime. A ripe one gives slightly under gentle pressure in your palm, not your fingertips.
- 2
Ripen them in a bag
Rock-hard avocados soften in 1 to 2 days in a paper bag on the counter, faster with a banana tucked in. Move them to the fridge once ripe to buy 2 or 3 more days.
- 3
Add avocado off heat
For pasta dishes like the avocado pasta or the chicken and basil version, stir the diced avocado in after you kill the burner so it stays creamy instead of turning gray and mushy.
- 4
Squeeze lime on cut pieces
A tablespoon of lime or lemon juice over diced avocado slows browning for a good 30 to 45 minutes, which is plenty for salsa, sandwiches, or a rice bowl.
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