How long to cook an avocado?

In a slow cooker, it will take 7-8 minutes to cook an avocado in the “Extinguishing” mode.
In a double boiler , avocados need to be cooked for about 5 minutes from the moment the water boils.
In the microwave , avocados are cooked in the “Grill” mode for 8-10 minutes.
In a pressure cooker , an avocado will only take 2-3 minutes to cook. It is necessary to cook under a closed lid.

Tasty Facts

How to peel an avocado. Rinse a ripe avocado thoroughly and peel it with a knife or vegetable peeler. Gently stick the knife into the center of the fruit until it rests on the stone. Cut the avocado along the circumference, dividing it into two equal parts. To help the halves separate from each other, you can scroll them with your hands in opposite directions. Once the avocado is cut, remove the pit with a teaspoon.

– As a rule, avocados are not boiled in water , since it does not add aromatic properties to the broth, but rather serves as a filler in the soup. However, in general, a rather delicate texture is obtained. Boiling in water is only appropriate if you are going to feed an avocado to a small child.

– 100 grams of avocado contains 208 kilocalories, while the amount of fat in the fruit is very high – 20 grams. This is probably why avocados are sometimes called “butter pear”. The pulp is so tender that it tastes like cream or butter. Meanwhile, the fat in avocados is quite well absorbed by the body, as it contains a lot of unsaturated fatty acids.

– The average cost of an avocado is from 370 rubles per kilogram (data for Moscow as of June 2019).

Soup with avocado

Products for soup with avocado
Avocado – 3 pieces
Chicken broth – half a liter
Milk – 200 milliliters
Cream with a fat content of 10% – 150 milliliters
Green onions – a few arrows
Garlic – a couple of teeth
Lemon juice – from half a lemon
Salt – to taste

How to cook soup with avocado Wash
each avocado, cut it, remove the stone, peel and chop coarsely, sprinkle with lemon juice. Cook chicken broth , add avocado, chopped green onions and garlic to it, pour in milk and cream. Grind the mass with a blender, salt and pepper to taste. Bring soup to a boil and turn off. Your avocado soup is cooked!