I love a feisty Deviled Avocado.
This boldly flavored dish includes creamy avocado, crunchy apple, sweet onion, tender protein-rich hemp seeds, spices and lemon. Plus a sweet and spicy rich curry-tahini sauce drizzled generously over top. I love these flavors all sweet and sassy. Serve these 'cados as appetizers or alongside a crunchy entree salad for a satisfying and energizing meal...
Start with these..
And all this..
Stuff the 'cados like this. As much as you can pack in..
Then add this..
Which has plenty of this..
And serve up this..
You could even serve with this salad..
Hot Curry. One of my favorite go-to salad recipes is this spicy carrot slaw topped with tofu or tempeh cubes. I love it because it take spicy curry powder and mingles it with sturdy crunchy textures and sweet accents like the raisins.
This deviled avocado does the same thing.
Because really, I think life is better if you eat at least one avocado a day. Well at least that is my mantra when I live in avocado heaven. Aka, California.
Deviled Avocado. Spicy Curry Sauce. Cado-Crunch Salad.
vegan, makes 4 avocado halves
2 avocados, scooped (rinse skin well before using)
½ lemon - squeeze over top scooped avocados to prevent browning
additional hemp seeds
Avocado Crunch Salad:
4 scooped avocado centers (about 1 ½ cups mashed avocado)
1 small apple, diced (about ½ cup)
¼ cup sweet onion, chopped
1 tablespoon organic raisins or chopped dates
1-2 tablespoon raw hemp seeds
3 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
⅛ teaspoon fine black pepper
note: you can get creative with this salad by adding in more veggies, beans, nuts and other seeds ... creativity encouraged.
Bold Spicy Sweet Curry Sauce:
1 tablespoon maple syrup (grade B)
1 tablespoon tahini
1 teaspoon hot curry powder (or muchi curry)
2 teaspoon lemon juice
a few dashes cayenne for extra heat
**add a bit less maple syrup if you do not like your sauce too sweet.
Directions:
1. Rinse your avocados well under cold water. Dry.
2. Slice avocados into halves, remove pits.
3. Scoop avocado flesh. Add to small bowl and drench leftover avocado bowls in lemon juice.
4. Add all the crunch salad ingredients to your small bowl and start mashing and folding the salad until a thick avocado salad forms. Set aside.
5. Whip together your curry sauce in a small bowl. Place in the fridge a few minutes to firm up a bit for best drizzling.
6. Add avocado crunch salad to scooped avocado shells. Pile it high.
7. Drizzle curry sauce over top. Add hemp seeds over top and some more fine black pepper. Optional: drizzle of EVOO for extra richness.
Serve! Note: These actually store in the fridge pretty well for up to a day. Just cover well and drench outside of stuffed avocados in lemon juice to prevent browning.
Tracy says
Kathy...any idea what I could use instead of the tahini in the sauce?? I am going to a party where someone is allergic to nuts/sesame.
Whitney says
Sriracha is awesome on avocados!
Kim Wray says
I'm not a big fan of curry, but these look delish. Any ideas on curry substitutes?
Nora Nur-art says
looks good i ;)ove cury
Deanna says
Oh, looks soooooo good! I want this for lunch TODAY!!
Kathy Patalsky says
🙂 I love the curry sauce... I discovered a new way to eat it last night .. drizzled over top warm hummus! YUM.
jodye says
I cannot think of anything I'd rather eat more right now, and luckily, I have all of these ingredients on hand! The sweet and spicy curry sauce sounds just divine. My kitchen will definitely be seeing a lot of that in the very near future!
Tina Pollard says
Yum, we over here in Australia love our avocado's and my daughters & i would gladly eat 1 a day, have to try this spicy version 🙂
Marcia says
My dear, I MUST say that I do SO look forward to reading your messages and drooling over your creative offerings! Kathy, you really do have a gift and as someone that is lacking in that department, I am so very grateful!! I can hardly wait to try this dish and serve it to my husband. He really enjoys spicy (why else would he have married me???)!! Keep up the great work Kathy and thank you.
Harmony says
Looks wonderful Kathy! Those avo's look so ripe and perfect. YUM!!!
Guest says
Does that ever look good!
I'll just use my mild curry, and skip the cayenne, I don't like "hot" spices. 🙂
Guest says
Easy peasy - my favorite way to cook.
Helen Rae Gift says
Oh, you have won my heart with this one. I'm drooling.....