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title: "What’s cooking today: Avocado salad"
description: "Buy your avocados when they are less than ripe, choosing the most beautiful ones, and watch them every day (no prodding, just that gentle touch) and you’ll soon find that they are just the way you like them. So plan ahead and make this salad a few days from now..."
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# What’s cooking today: Avocado salad

> Buy your avocados when they are less than ripe, choosing the most beautiful ones, and watch them every day (no prodding, just that gentle touch) and you’ll soon find that they are just the way you like them. So plan ahead and make this salad a few days from now...

By Tony Jackman · Published 24 May 2021, 12:31 SAST

## Content

**Ingredients**

1 large buttery Natal avocado or 2 smaller ones

Juice of ½ a lemon

1 sweet long red pepper, cut into thin strips lengthwise

½ an orange, sliced into thin half moon segments

12 mini Roma tomatoes

12 black olives

8 mustard leaves, torn

Fresh oregano, picked

*Dressing:*

Juice of 1 lime

3 Tbsp olive oil

1 Tbsp finely chopped coriander stems

The finely chopped soft centre of 1 stick of lemongrass (none of the hard outer part)

1 Tbsp brown rice vinegar

Salt and pepper to taste

**Method**

Combine dressing ingredients in a bowl and stir. Pour half of it into a salad bowl. Tear the green part of the mustard leaves away from their stems, put them in the bowl and toss with the dressing. Peel and halve the avos and drizzle lemon juice all over, rubbing it in gently. Slice nearly all the way through leaving the narrow part intact. Arrange creatively on the leaves. Arrange the pepper strips, orange segments, tomatoes and olives. Pick some oregano leaves and drop them here and there. Drizzle the remaining dressing over. **DM/TGIFood**

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