Name: Avocado and broad bean mash
Yield: Serves four as part of a mezze
Ingredients: 250 g podded broad beans, still in their skins but not in their pod (fresh or frozen); 1 large avocado, peeled and roughly chopped (190 g); 2 spring onions, finely sliced; 60 ml olive oil; 1 lemon: finely shave to get 1 long strip, then juice to get 1½ tbsp; salt

Preparation info

Serves
four
as part of a mezze

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Ottolenghi Simple

By Yotam Ottolenghi

Published 2018

About

You can look at podding broad beans two ways: either as a great big bother not worth it, or as something wonderfully therapeutic to do with the radio or music on. It’s also a job very easy to outsource, if anyone is offering to help. Either way, the resulting dish is wonderful: lighter than an avocado-only guacamole and all the more lovely for it. The mash can be made in advance, if you like: it keeps in the fridge for a couple of days.