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
Vegan Avocado Recipes
Every recipe in this list is plant-based as written, not as an afterthought substitution. Where a dairy swap is possible in a nearby recipe, the recipe page says so.
18 recipes in this category.
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
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
Smoothies
Avocado Banana Spinach Smoothie
Spinach for colour and minerals, banana and avocado to make sure you cannot taste it.
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
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 Hummus
Between hummus and guacamole: chickpeas and tahini for depth, avocado for the colour and the silk.
10 minServes 8Easy
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
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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