How to Cut and Peel an Avocado


	How to Cut and Peel an Avocado
Perkalicious11
10-2-2007 2:53 PM
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avocado, cooking, cut, slice, prepare, technique, tip, how to
Perkalicious11 says:
can be tricky at first, but SO good and worth it!
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10-2-2007 2:57 PM
CarnivalBorn
I love avacado
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With a large, sharp knife in the other hand, cut the avocado lengthwise around the seed.  Open the two halves to expose the pit.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.elise.com/recipes/archives/001737how_to_cut_and_peel_an_avocado.php"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.elise.com/img/7592044A-FB09-4ED2-A37E-91698EE6EAAF" alt="avocado-cut-2.jpg" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.elise.com/recipes/archives/001737how_to_cut_and_peel_an_avocado.php">hold the avocado half with the pit.   Gently tap the pit with a knife with enough force so that the knife edge wedges into the pit, but not so hard as to cut all the way through it.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.elise.com/recipes/archives/001737how_to_cut_and_peel_an_avocado.php"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.elise.com/img/632E863C-E964-4FAE-946F-BC4DB63F87CD" alt="avocado-cut-3.jpg" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.elise.com/recipes/archives/001737how_to_cut_and_peel_an_avocado.php"><P>With the edge of the knife, twist the pit out of the avocado and discard.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.elise.com/recipes/archives/001737how_to_cut_and_peel_an_avocado.php"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.elise.com/img/958EB652-B3BC-43DC-89EC-5148F88A7AC4" alt="avocado-cut-4.jpg" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.elise.com/recipes/archives/001737how_to_cut_and_peel_an_avocado.php"><P><B>3b</B> To make avocado slices, use a knife to slice the inside of the avocado halves into sections.  Don't worry if you cut right through the peel.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.elise.com/recipes/archives/001737how_to_cut_and_peel_an_avocado.php"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.elise.com/img/13B3FB3D-C327-4442-91CA-A0AB32785AC6" alt="avocado-cut-5-1.jpg" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.elise.com/recipes/archives/001737how_to_cut_and_peel_an_avocado.php"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.elise.com/img/4639B611-E23B-4885-8C1E-0FF31007DFDB" alt="avocado-cut-6-1.jpg" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.elise.com/recipes/archives/001737how_to_cut_and_peel_an_avocado.php"><P><B>4</B> Use your fingers to separate the avocado segments from the peel.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.elise.com/recipes/archives/001737how_to_cut_and_peel_an_avocado.php"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.elise.com/img/3FC2D769-A9D6-441A-BC64-FDE15D97A202" alt="avocado-cut-7.jpg" /></div></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.elise.com/recipes/archives/000159perfect_guacamole.php" href="http://www.elise.com/recipes/archives/000159perfect_guacamole.php" style="font-size: 11px;">www.elise.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.elise.com/recipes/archives/000159perfect_guacamole.php"><P><B>Links:</B>
<A href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5563805">What's in a Name? The Avocado Story</A> - how the avocado got its name, from NPR
<A target="blank" href="http://www.avocado.org/about/guaccentral/">www.avocado.org's Guacamole Central</A> - more versions of guacamole</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/A06E1F2C-237C-4868-92D4-475F6682110D/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>