During our coronavirus stay-at-home, a simple to prepare lunch, breakfast or snack, is an “avocado tartare.” You might call it avocado salsa with a few extra veggies. I hope this avocado recipe guide inspires you to create your own beautiful, delicious avocado tartare with whatever vegetables are in your kitchen. – Melanie Albert
Avocado Tartare Key Ingredients
The 5 base ingredients for avocado tartare are:
- A ripe avocado
- Citrus: lemon, lime, grapefruit, Meyer lemon
- Sea salt
- Aromatic: onion, garlic, shallot
- Fresh herb: parsley, basil, cilantro, marjoram, lemon balm
Avocado Tartare: The Add-in Veggies
To these base ingredients, add in a few veggies – any kind – available at your local farmers’ markets, local farmers, or grocery stores. Some ideas: Broccoli, cauliflower, carrots, celery, cucumbers, tomatoes, olives.
The plant-based cooking video guides you through the simple step-by-step process to prepare the avocado salsa. And, for reference, you can printout the recipe.
Avocado Salsa Recipe Guide
Use this recipe as a guide for Avocado Salsa with whatever veggies are in your refrigerator. This is a great recipe to experiment with intuitive cooking, where we choose a few vegetables, herbs, and aromatics we are attracted to and enjoy our creation.
Serves 1
Simple Ingredients
- 1 avocado
- 2 tbsp green onions
- 2 tbsp fresh parsley, minced
- 1 tsp Meyer lemon juice
- Pinch sea salt
- 1 carrot, sliced
- 3-4 cauliflower florets
- Optional garnish: few broccoli stems
Simple Steps
- Chop all ingredients
- Toss all ingredients into a bowl.
- Mix avocado with a fork.
- Add Meyer lemon juice and sea salt to the avocado.
- Mix all ingredients with a fork.
- Mindfully plate.
- Enjoy
Since I love Avocado Tartare’s so much, I’ll continue to share some of my intuitively created dishes with you, to give you more ideas on how you an mix-and-match veggies, herbs, aromatics, and citrus.
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By Melanie Albert, Plant-Based Cooking Leader, Founder & CEO, Experience Nutrition in Phoenix, Arizona. Award-winning cookbook author, speaker, corporate wellness, team building, retreat leader, and caterer.
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