Avocado Nutrients And Salad Recipes

Avacado Recipe Ingredients:

1 pitted avocado, ripe
8 cups mixed greens, torn lettuce or spinach
2 grapefruit
2 tablespoon avocado oil (if avocado oil is not readily available you may use same amount of olive oil)
2 tablespoon raspberry vinegar
1 teaspoon sugar
1 tablespoon water
1/8 teaspoon salt

Method:

• Peel and slice the avocado. Also peel the grapefruit and section it.
• Arrange the mixed salad greens either on a large serving platter or on 6 different individual serving plates, as per your choice of serving. Place grape fruit and avocado slices over the salad greens evenly. Whisk together avocado oil, raspberry vinegar, sugar, water and salt in a bowl to prepare the dressing. Drizzle this dressing evenly all over the salad mixture and serve. This recipe makes 6 servings.

Health Tip:

• Avocado and grapefruit salad provides 134 calories and 9 gm fat. The fat quality in this recipe can be considered healthy as avocado oil or olive oil provides good monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats. Also avocado fruit is a rich source of oleic acid, a monounsaturated fatty acid which may help lower cholesterol. Potassium from avocado along with oleic acid promotes optimum heart health.
• Adding avocado in your salads also ensures increased absorption of carotenoids from other vegetables in your salad.