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Smart octopus with avocado – La Cucina Italiana – Italian Cuisine

20 minutes of pressure cooker and the octopus is ready: super soft and without wasting time or energy! The kitchen becomes smart thanks to the recipes of La Cucina Italiana for Edison

Good and healthy ingredients, cooked with love – but without wasting time, raw materials, energy. Here is what it means for us to cook well and in an ethical way. At La Cucina Italiana for 90 years we have been doing this inspired by tradition, experimenting with new cooking techniques and new flavors. We work respecting the environment, food and health and with this recipe we do it alongside Edison, who has been creating energy for over 135 years, and aims to explain how to consume less and better. With a small gesture you can really change the world, every day.

Ingredients for 6 people

200 g of octopus
2 avocado
50 g parsley
20 g of mint
1 lemon
20 g pitted black olives

Method

For the octopus
Clean the octopus by removing the beak and the eyes, then turn the head upside down to remove the sand residues. Fill the pressure cooker with water and dip the clean octopus in it and close it. When the pot starts to whistle count 20 minutes.
Once the cooking time is over, open the pan and allow it to open, but leave the octopus immersed for at least another 10 minutes.
Cut the octopus into small pieces and sauté in a pan over high heat with a little oil until it becomes crisp.

For the avocado
Take the ripe avocado, cut it in half and remove the stone.
Take half of the lawyer, cut it and season with lemon, oil, salt and pepper. Then whisk it and place the cream in the fridge well covered with plastic wrap.
Cut the other half into thin slices and season with lemon, oil, salt and pepper. Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate until ready to serve.

To serve
Chop the parsley and mint very finely.
Put a spoonful of avocado cream on the plate, place a few pieces of octopus on top, sprinkle with chopped parsley and spices. Next, arrange the avocado slices and finish the dish with half-cut Taggiasca olives. Serve immediately with a drizzle of oil and grated lemon rind at the time.

Avocado Tomatillo Salsa – A Simple Green Sauce for Summer

This spectacularly simple green sauce may be the perfect
summer condiment. It requires no cooking, only takes minutes, looks gorgeous,
and tastes amazing with anything grilled, and most things not.

It’s also great for
treating a bad sunburn. That’s right, just serve this and chips along with
three or four margaritas, and the victim will feel significantly better in no
time.

I will admit this is a sauce I take for granted. I’m
lucky enough to live near San Francisco’s Mission District, and there are
hundreds of taquerias and restaurants, all of which feature some type of fresh,
green salsa. Each place uses a slightly unique combination of ingredients, but
I’ve never had one I didn’t enjoy.

Not all contain avocado, but I really like the addition
since it adds a wonderful richness, and the extra fat helps carry the other
flavors around. As you’ll see next week, this was delicious on some pork tacos,
but there are so many other amazing options. Try it on scrambled eggs, use it
as a relish for sausage, or as a dip for fried-anything. I really hope you give this a try soon.
Enjoy!

Ingredients for about 1 1/4 cups:

1 generous cup sliced tomatillos (about 6 oz by weight)

*Note: if you can’t find fresh, you can use canned
tomatillos in a pinch

1 tbsp minced Serrano pepper, or to taste

1 large ripe avocado

1/4 cup packed cilantro leaves

1/2 lime, juiced

salt to taste

Sweets with avocado: 5 recipes – Italian Cuisine

Have you ever tasted an avocado mousse or cheesecake? Here are our proposals to use one of the most clicked fruits of the web in a dessert

It is a very particular fruit, with a soft pulp enclosed in a glossy and smooth peel, or dark and rough in some variations. Has a unexpected taste for a fruit because it is not sweet at all. For this reason avocado it can be used in the kitchen to prepare dishes of all kinds, both sweet and savory.

An avocado a day …

It's a versatile ingredient that we always recommend to have at home because it can save you many impromptu dinners.
IS rich in property and nutritionists say that eating one avocado a day is good for the heart and stimulates the metabolism. Just add it to the salad, or use it to fill a toast, or blend it with lemon and sugar to prepare a delicious smoothie.

How to choose a good avocado

This is one of the most frequently asked questions when it comes to avocado. The perfect avocado must first have the petiole because in this way the air can not penetrate inside damaging the pulp. Then it must be soft to the touch, but not too much. Try to feel it with your fingers. The peel should not break, but only accompany the pressure of the fingertips.
Finally, the avocado should not have dark spots, but be of a beautiful bright green color.
There are also some varieties of dark avocado which usually arrive at supermarket counters already at an excellent ripening point and inside they are a slightly warmer color than green ones.

The most famous recipes

The most famous avocado recipes is definitely the Mexican guacamole sauce that is usually served in accompaniment with tacos, nachos and fajitas. Since last year we have only talked about avocado toast, that is a base of toasted bread with slices of avocado and other ingredients of your choice. The ideal pairings are the salmon and the fried or poached egg.

Spoon desserts with avocado

We want to offer you now the avocado as a basic ingredient of delicious spoon desserts. Browse the tutorial and discover five desserts to prepare in a short time that will surprise you.