avacado and chesnut Veg cup
Submitted by Audrina on June 10, 2008 - 3:18am
Servings:
serves 4This is one of my very own creations, possibly a little random but really nutritous and very yummy.
looks great at BBQs and parties
a filling nutty, creamy origonal salad.
Ingredients:
2 whole ripe avacados, half them and remove stones
1 cup chesnuts
1 lemon
2
carrots, grate finely
2 tablespoon coconut, grated
1 parsnip, grate finely
1 cup mixed nuts, eg walnuts and almonds
pinch cayeene
pepper
pinch cummin
pinch salt
pinch pepper
Preparation:
1-Cut avacado in half and remoe stone.
2- Scoop out flesh from each half
3-Add the salt and pepper and all the spices, mash together. Now half the mixture and press back into the two empty halfs of avacado skin remaining. Put to one side
4- Using a food processor chop the nuts finely. Add water gradually until a thick pastey cream texture is made.
5- Chop and crush the walnuts and almonds. stir into the cestnut paste.
6-press a layer of this nutty crunchy paste into the avacado shell ontop of the avacado flesh lining. Leave a scooped shape in the middle fo the next part.
7- grate fesh carrot coconut and parsnip.Mix then pile into the middle of the now nearly filled avacado skins/shells
8- sprinkle pepper and salt over the grated veg.
Drizzle with freshly squeezed lemon or other creamy-like sauces.
7 reponses to "avacado and chesnut Veg cup"
1. Hey you can eat chestnuts
Hey you can eat chestnuts raw, you do have to remove the skin but that can be rubbed off.
They are really great mixed with other things so I'm going to experiment this season with them and see what I come up with. They are very nutritious.
2.
Maybe you can just use another type of raw nut instead?
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Maybe you can just use another type of raw nut instead?
4.
You can just use another type of raw nut instead.
5.
I looked it up after seeing this recipe (and noticing that her other two recipes she'd posted were not raw) and it seems like it's only the skin that is problematic, while the meat of the actual nut is ok, though bitter and very starchy (like potatoes, rather than like a traditional nut). But I have no personal experience eating them raw. Also, there are different kinds of chestnuts, with some being edible and others not.
6.
Yeah, everything I've read about chestnuts says they have to be cooked?
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How do you prepare the raw chestnuts? From what I've heard, it's really difficult to separate the meat from the skin (which is toxic from the high levels of tannin).