Easy Avocado Recipes

Nothing here needs a technique you have to practise. Short ingredient lists, ordinary kitchen kit, and most of them are on the table well inside twenty minutes.

29 recipes in this category.

Toast

Easy Avocado Toast

The version worth learning properly: good toast, ripe fruit smashed rather than blended, acid and salt in the right amounts.

6 minServes 2Easy

Toast

Avocado Egg Toast

Avocado toast that actually holds you until lunch. The egg does the work; the timings below are the part people get wrong.

10 minServes 2Easy

Toast

Chilli Lime Avocado Toast

For people who find plain avocado toast dull. Lime instead of lemon, fresh chilli instead of flakes, raw onion for bite.

6 minServes 2Easy

For kids

Avocado Banana Toast Fingers

Naturally sweet, soft enough for small mouths, and cut into strips a toddler can hold. No added sugar or salt.

5 minServes 2Easy

Sandwiches

Avocado Sandwich

The construction matters more than the filling: fat against the bread, wet vegetables in the middle, acid on the avocado.

8 minServes 2Easy

Sandwiches

Avocado Grilled Cheese

Cook the cheese, add the avocado after. Heat ruins avocado's flavour, and this recipe works around that.

12 minServes 2Easy

Sandwiches

Avocado Veggie Wrap

A vegetable wrap with enough fat and protein to be lunch, plus the rolling method that stops the filling escaping.

10 minServes 2Easy

High protein

Avocado Egg Salad Wrap

Avocado replaces the mayonnaise entirely — same creaminess, more fibre, and it tastes fresher.

17 minServes 2Easy

Salads

Avocado Cucumber Tomato Salad

The salad to make when the avocado is perfectly ripe and you do not want to hide it behind anything.

10 minServes 4Easy

Vegan

Avocado Chickpea Salad

Chickpeas make this a meal rather than a side. Good warm, good cold, and it survives a lunchbox.

15 minServes 4Easy

High protein

Avocado Tuna Salad

Store-cupboard lunch. One tin, one avocado, five minutes, and no mayonnaise anywhere near it.

5 minServes 2Easy

Smoothies

Avocado Smoothie

Half an avocado, a banana, milk. The ratio below is the one that stays drinkable rather than setting like a pudding.

5 minServes 2Easy

Smoothies

Avocado Smoothie Bowl

The difference between a bowl and a smoothie in a bowl is about 150 ml of liquid. This one is built to hold granola on top.

8 minServes 2Easy

Indian

Avocado Milkshake

Sweeter and thicker than a smoothie. This is the shake style you find from Kerala to Indonesia, not a health drink.

6 minServes 2Easy

Dips

Classic Guacamole

Five ingredients, no cumin, no sour cream. Mashed by hand so it stays chunky, and salted properly.

10 minServes 6Easy

Dips

Avocado Yoghurt Dip

Half the fat of guacamole, more protein, and it stays good in the fridge for two days rather than one.

8 minServes 6Easy

Dips

Avocado Hummus

Between hummus and guacamole: chickpeas and tahini for depth, avocado for the colour and the silk.

10 minServes 8Easy

Indian

Avocado Raita

Made the way any raita is made, with avocado in place of half the cucumber. Richer, and it cools heat better.

10 minServes 4Easy

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

Breakfast

Avocado Breakfast Burrito

Soft eggs, beans, cheese and avocado in a foil-wrapped roll. Makes four, and three of them freeze.

22 minServes 4Easy

Breakfast

Avocado Breakfast Bowl

A savoury bowl you can prep on Sunday: cooked grain, boiled eggs, avocado sliced fresh each morning.

28 minServes 2Easy

Keto

Baked Eggs in Avocado

Two halves, two eggs, twenty minutes. Scooping out a little extra flesh first is what stops the egg running everywhere.

21 minServes 2Easy

Keto

Avocado Deviled Eggs

Avocado replaces the mayonnaise in the filling. Greener, fresher, and they hold their shape on a platter.

25 minServes 6Easy

Indian

Avocado Chaat

Chaat masala and lime do to avocado exactly what they do to boiled potato. Assemble it at the table, not before.

15 minServes 4Easy

Desserts

Avocado Chocolate Mousse

No eggs, no cream, no cooking. Blended long enough, avocado and cocoa become something genuinely mousse-like.

10 minServes 4Easy

Desserts

Avocado Ice Cream

No machine needed. Coconut fat and a spoon of alcohol or glucose are what keep it soft instead of solid.

15 minServes 6Medium

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