Avocado Fruit Salad

Avocado Fruit Salad is a spark of healthy for the Holiday Season.  I feel the need for something healthy to perk me up while baking.  This easy little salad will dress up your table and be gobbled by the pickiest eaters.

Avocados are not an Italian tradition in cooking, but there are some innovations in cooking with them.  I have eaten a pasta made with a simple avocado sauce.  While your pasta is cooking, put an avocado, olive oil, garlic, parsley, parmesan cheese  and lemon juice in a blender.  Cook your pasta and toss with the sauce; then kick up the flavour with some lemon zest.  This is an avocado pesto which is easy to make and brings a healthy sauce to your table.  Kids love this.   Avocados can also be used in a caesar dressing.  

The textures in this salad leave your mouth fresh while the meatiness of the avocado fills you. Such a simple recipe requires quality ingredients. Make sure that the avocados are firm to the touch, but ripe.  Avocados are incredibly nutritious; they contain more potassium than bananas.  This good fat is loaded with fibre and can lower your cholesterol.  

The acidity from the orange keeps the avocado fresh.

Cut the avocados lengthwise and remove the pit.  Using a sharp knife cut the orange into sections.

Pretty green and red candied cherries add a little sweetness.

The little skewers look pretty on a platter.  Drizzle some olive oil and sprinkle some dried basil on this.

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Avocado Fruit Salad

Avocado Fruit Salad keeps you healthy any time of the year.  

Course Appetizer, Side Dish

Cuisine Home Cooking in Canada, Italian

Keyword Avocado Fruit Salad

Prep Time 20 minutes

Servings 4

Author Renata Solski

Ingredients

• 2 avocados cut lengthwise
• 1/2 tbsp lemon juice
• 1 large orange
• 8 canided cherries
• 1 tbsp olive oil
• 1/2 tbsp dried basil
• salt and pepper coarse salt is better

Instructions

1. Slice the avocado lengthwise and remove the pit. 

   Sprinkle some of the lemon juice on each half to keep the avocado from turning brown. 

   Peel the orange and cut it into segments.

   Place the segments on a skewer starting and ending with a cherry.

   Arrange each skewer on an avocado.

   Pour the orange juice from segmenting the orange over the avocados. 

   Drizzle with olive oil and sprinkle with basil.

   Add a good pinch of freshly grounded coarse salt and pepper.

   Serve as an appetizer or a side.  

Recipe Notes

How to remove the pit of the avocado and scoop it out watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGd6GfHG77I

How to segment an orange https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xENXYCCh2zg