Avocado Oranges

Name: Avocado Oranges
Yield: Serves 4
Ingredients: salt and black pepper; salt and black pepper; lettuce leaves, to garnish; 3 tablespoons (3 x 15 ml spoon) olive oil; 1 tablespoon (15 ml spoon) white wine vinegar; 2 medium-size oranges; 4 small pinches of cayenne pepper; a handful of parsley, chopped finely; 1 large ripe avocado; 1 teaspoon (5 ml spoon) Dijon mustard

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

First Impressions

By Josceline Dimbleby

Published 1984

About

A quickly made, decorative and most refreshing dish. Halved oranges are scooped out and then piled full of the orange flesh mixed with avocado in a mustard vinaigrette. Don’t make this more than two hours in advance.

Ingredients

2 medium-size oranges
1 tablespoon (15 ml spoon) white wine vinegar

Starter
Gluten-free
Vegan

Method

Cut the oranges in half across. Using a small, sharp knife carefully cut and scoop the orange flesh and juices out into a bowl, discarding the seeds and pith. Put the vinegar, the olive oil and the mustard in a jam jar with a lid and season well with salt and black pepper. Put the lid on the jar and shake up to mix; then add the orange flesh. Cut the avocado in half and scoop out the flesh with