Exotic Avocado Salad Recipes

Steps:

• Dry-fry the pumpkin seeds in a frying pan for a few minutes, tossing and turning them until they look toasted. Tip them out of the pan and let them go cold. Peel the papayas, halve them lengthways and scoop out the seeds. Cut the flesh into long, thin slices. Halve the avocados and remove the stones, then peel off the skin and slice the flesh lengthways into thin slices.
• Put the papayas, avocados, pumpkin seeds and watercress into a large bowl. Chop about 1 tbsp of the mint leaves and set aside. Pick the remaining leaves from the stalks and tear them into the bowl.
• Mix the lime juice and olive oil with the rest of the chopped mint to make a dressing, and season with salt and pepper to taste. Pour over the salad and gently mix all the ingredients together with your hands. Taste and add more salt and pepper if you think it needs it, then transfer to a serving platter.

Steps:

• For the salad: Peel the avocados, cut into 1-inch chunks and put all but 2 chunks into a large mixing bowl for the salad. Put the remaining 2 chunks into a small mixing bowl and set aside for the dressing.
• Add the parsley, cucumber and onion to the avocado chunks in the large mixing bowl. Sprinkle generously with salt and pepper.
• For the dressing: Mash the reserved 2 chunks of avocado with a fork until smooth. Add the oil, honey, cumin and lime juice and whisk until smooth.
• Pour the dressing over the avocado salad and gently toss with your hands to combine. Serve immediately.

Steps:

• Whisk sugar, lemon juice, vanilla, and Chinese 5-spice powder; adjust to taste, adding more or less ingredients. Add mangoes and raspberries and toss together.
• Just before serving arrange kiwis in a circle on outside edge of each of 4 dessert plates, arrange an inside circle of banana slices overlapping kiwis, leaving a space in center of dessert plate. Spoon macerated raspberries and mangoes in the middle; dust with confectioners' sugar and garnish with mint leaves.

Steps:

• Combine all salad ingredients in bowl, except cashews.
• Mix all dressing ingredients.
• Toss salad with dressing.
• Add cashews immediately before serving.

Steps:

• Dry-fry the pumpkin seeds in a frying pan for a few minutes, tossing and turning them until they look toasted.
• Tip them out of the pan and let them go cold.
• Peel the papayas, halve them lengthways and scoop out the seeds. Cut the flesh into long, thin slices.
• Halve the avocados and remove the stones, then peel off the skin and slice the flesh lengthways into thin slices.
• Put the papayas, avocados, pumpkin seeds and watercress into a large bowl.
• Chop about 1 tbsp of the mint leaves and set aside.
• Pick the remaining leaves from the stalks and tear them into the bowl.
• Mix the lime juice and olive oil with the rest of the chopped mint to make a dressing, and season with salt and pepper to taste. Pour over the salad and gently mix all the ingredients together with your hands.
• Taste and add more salt and pepper if you think it needs it, then transfer to a serving platter.