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Avocado Recipes That Aren’t Just Boring Avocado Toast

If you’ve heard it once, you’ve heard it a million times; millennials love avocado toast. We get it. Avocado is healthy and tasty and putting it on toast is simple and fast. Quite frankly, we’re getting tired of hearing about avocado on toast. Avocado is such a versatile vegetable! It deserves more. We’ve got avocado recipes that aren’t just boring avocado toast because we’ve all been making avocado crawl when it was born to fly.

Avocado Mint Chocolate Chip Ice Cream

Avocado recipes don’t always need to be savoury! Try this sweet treat to satisfy your sweet tooth.

Ingredients:

3 avocados ripe
2 cans (14 oz each) full fat coconut milk
3/4 cup maple syrup
1/2 teaspoon mint extract
1 cup vegan chocolate chips

Directions:

1. The day before making the ice cream, place the cans of coconut milk in the fridge overnight upside down. Plan in advance, as this is a very important step, it will segregate the coconut cream from the coconut water.

2. Cut the avocados in half, remove the pit and spoon out the avocado flesh into a food processor or high speed blender.

3. Turn the cans of coconut milk upside down, and open them, the hard coconut cream will be on top now.

4. Spoon out the coconut cream into the blender and save the remaining coconut water for a smoothie or drink it.

5. Add maple syrup and mint extract to the blender and blend on medium high speed until fully combined and smooth, about 3-4 minutes.

6. Pour the ice cream mixture into a freezer safe bowl, stir in the chocolate chips, cover the top with plastic wrap, close the bowl and place in the freezer for 6 hours or overnight.

7. Before serving, let the ice cream stand at room temperature for 10-15 minutes. Enjoy!

Avocado Pesto Pasta With Crab

A lot of avocado recipes feature a cold or too temperature avocado. This recipe shows you how to turn up the heat!

Ingredients:

For the sauce (makes about 1 ¾ – 2 cup of sauce):

2 large ripe avocados
½ C fresh basil leaves
2 garlic cloves, minced
2 tbsp pine nuts
2 tbsp fresh lemon juice (zest the lemon first and hang onto the zest for serving, if you like)
2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
2 tbsp water
½ tsp fine sea salt, more or less to taste

For the dish:

400g spaghetti, gluten-free or regular
340g (12oz) of frozen cooked king crabmeat, thawed
Pasta water to thin to desired consistency
For garnish:
3 tbsp toasted pine nuts
Zest from lemon, above
Dried pepper flakes
Fresh black pepper and additional salt to taste
Fresh basil leaves to garnish

Directions:

1. Bring a large pot of pasta water to boil.

2. Meanwhile, place all ingredients for the creamy avocado pesto sauce into a blender. Blend until smooth. Pour into a vessel large enough for tossing with the pasta when it is ready.

3. Cook pasta according to package directions for al dente. Without pouring away the pasta water (keep it on simmer), use tongs to bring the hot pasta into the vessel holding the creamy avocado pesto sauce. Toss around until the pasta is well coated with the sauce. Add splashes of hot pasta water as needed to thin out to your desired consistency.

4. Quick-blanch the king crabmeat chunks in the simmering pasta water until heated through, about a minute not long since it is already cooked.

5. Add the crab to the pasta now and give everything a gentle, final toss. Divide among plates and serve with sprinkles of toasted pine nuts, lemon zest, dried red pepper flakes for some heat and definitely loads of fresh cracked black pepper. Enjoy!

Avocado Summer Rolls

Any avocado recipes that feature rice paper (our fave for the moment), are sure to make it to our list. Not to mention, these are so eye catching!

Ingredients:

Basil Coconut Sauce:

½ cup full-fat coconut milk
¼ cup basil
1 tablespoon cashew butter
1 tablespoon lime juice
3 thai chiles, ¼ jalapeño pepper, or ½ teaspoon sriracha, more as desired*
½ clove garlic
½ teaspoon fresh ginger
¼ teaspoon sea salt

For the summer rolls:

6 spring roll rice wrappers (12-inch ones are best)
4 ounces cooked rice noodles
4 ounces extra-firm tofu, sliced into strips (we used raw)
1 ripe avocado, sliced
2 ripe peaches or 1 ripe mango, sliced
½ watermelon radish, very thinly sliced, optional
Fresh basil, Thai basil and/or mint
Pinches of sesame seeds
Tamari and sriracha, optional for serving

Directions:

1. Make the basil coconut sauce: In a food processor, combine the coconut milk, basil, cashew butter, lime juice, chiles, garlic, ginger, and salt. Pulse until well combined. Season to taste.

2. Assemble the summer rolls: Fill a shallow glass baking dish with 1-inch of warm water. Submerge one rice paper in the warm water for 7 seconds and then lay the softened wrapper on a clean, damp kitchen towel. Place desired fillings into the center of the wrapper. Fold the bottom of the wrapper over the filling and gently tuck the filling under the wrapper. Fold the sides over the filling. Then continue rolling and tucking the rice paper to form a summer roll. Repeat with the remaining rice papers.

3. Serve with the Basil Coconut Sauce for dipping. Serve with tamari and sriracha on the side, if desired.

Chipotle Popcorn with Avocado Butter

This recipe is one of the easiest avocado recipes we’ve ever done. You’ll never want to go back to avocado toast after you try this. And you won’t need napkins because you’ll want to lick your fingers!

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Ingredients:

Avocado butter:

2 avocados
Juice of 1 lime
Zest of ½ lime
1 tsp. salt
½ tsp. fresh ground black pepper
¼ cup butter
1/4 garlic clove (peeled)

Popcorn:

1 teaspoon ground chipotle
1 teaspoon smoked paprika
Your choice of plain popcorn

Directions:

1. Melt butter in a bowl.

2. Remove the avocado flesh and combine all ingredients except butter in a food processor.

3. Start the processor and slowly drizzle the butter in until it is a smooth mixture.

4. Pop the popcorn and place into large bowl.

5. Drizzle avocado butter onto popcorn. Enjoy!

We could never get sick of avocado. It’s one of those foods you could have every day and not be tired of! Let us know in the comments which of the avocado recipes you’re most likely to try.

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