Starters & Light meals

Avocado and artichoke salad

4
Easy
20 minutes
15 minutes
Wine/Spirit Pairing
Sterhuis Chenin Blanc 2007

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Ingredients

Method
  • 2 artichokes, cooked
  • 50 g watercress, lightly rinsed
  • 2 avocados, stoned and halved
  • 6 spring onions, roughly chopped
  • 24 green olives
  • extra virgin olive oil, to drizzle
  • salt and freshly
  • ground black pepper

Method

Ingredients

Halve the artichoke hearts lengthways and toss with the watercress. Spoon the avocados from their skins and add to the salad.
Scatter the spring onions and olives on top. Serve drizzled with a little olive oil and a squeeze of lemon juice and season to taste.

Per serving: 850.3KJ, 2.9g protein, 16.8g fat, 11.2g carbs

TASTE’s take:
Waste not, want not… The recipe calls for the leaves or the stem, so what to do with the hearts? Pulse with green olives to create a tapenade, Fold into pasta or risotto, DRENCH in garlic butter, Sautee with exotic mushrooms, butter and white wine, or TOSS with clams and cream.

Abigail Donnelly

Recipe by: Abigail Donnelly

Nothing excites Woolworths TASTE's Food Director quite as much as the challenge of dreaming up recipes with innovative new foods – or the thrill of creating deliciousness on a plate with the humblest of ingredients. With Abi by your side, you’ll be a cooking expert in no time at all.

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