Avocado Dinner Recipes

Avocado is not usually cooked hard, so at dinner it tends to arrive as a sauce, a topping or a stirred-through finish. These recipes use it that way.

6 recipes in this category.

Dinner

Creamy Avocado Pasta

The sauce is blended raw and stirred through hot pasta off the heat. Cook it and it turns grey and bitter.

18 minServes 4Easy

Dinner

Avocado Pesto Pasta

A pesto with a fraction of the oil, no pine nuts needed, and peas stirred in for sweetness and protein.

19 minServes 4Easy

Mexican

Avocado Black Bean Tacos

Spiced beans, avocado sliced not mashed, and a five-minute pickled onion that lifts the whole plate.

20 minServes 4Easy

Vegan

Avocado Cucumber Sushi Rolls

Vegan maki with two fillings. The rice is the whole recipe — get that right and the rolling is straightforward.

50 minServes 4Medium

Dinner

Chilled Avocado Soup

A cold soup for hot weather, blended in one go. Chill it hard — lukewarm avocado soup is unpleasant.

15 minServes 4Easy

Indian

Avocado Paneer Kathi Roll

Masala paneer and avocado in a paratha. The avocado replaces the usual mayonnaise and does it better.

25 minServes 4Medium

Rent an Avocado Tree