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
Quick Avocado Recipes
Everything on this page is done in fifteen minutes or under, start to plate. Several need no heat at all.
20 recipes in this category.
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 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
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 Banana Spinach Smoothie
Spinach for colour and minerals, banana and avocado to make sure you cannot taste it.
5 minServes 2Easy
High protein
High-Protein Avocado Smoothie
Post-workout version. Yoghurt and protein powder do the work; the avocado stops it tasting thin and chalky.
5 minServes 1Easy
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
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
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 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
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