Deconstructed salsa salad with grilled avocado and avocado sauce
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Read about avocados in the BrightCulinary Book
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Ingredients
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- sugar snap peas
Blanch the sugar snap peas quickly for a bright green colour; pull the string from both seams with a paring knife.
Trim the tomato ends, cut the flesh away from the seed core, cut into batons then cubes.
- tomato
- cucumber
Trim the cucumber, cut into quarter-inch strips, then batons, then cubes; seed a large cucumber first.
- red onion
- lemon confit
Cut red onion into small dice; add lemon confit, and small-diced jalapeno if wanted.
- olive oil
- lemon or lime juice
- salt and pepper
Season the salsa with olive oil, lemon or lime juice, salt and pepper; red wine vinegar optional.
- ½ whole avocado
Cut the avocado lengthwise around the pit, open, remove the pit, cut one half into four wedges and keep the other half for the sauce.
- 1½ whole avocado
- sweated garlic and shallots
- lime juice
- olive oil or walnut oil
- Tabasco
Puree one and a half avocados in a food processor with sweated garlic and shallots, lime juice, olive or walnut oil, Tabasco, mustard, salt and pepper, and a dash of heavy cream if desired.
- mustard
- herbs like parsley, lemon verbena or cilantro
- lime zest
Plate: pipe the avocado sauce, spoon on the salsa, add the grilled avocado, snap peas and radish, garnish with herbs and lime zest.