Avocado-Sardíne Toasts

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  • Serves

    4 to 6

    • Difficulty

      Easy

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By Paula Wolfert

Published 2003

  • About

Avocados have been available to cooks in the Mediterranean since the sixteenth century, when Cortès brought them back from the New World. It was in Catalonia where I first tasted this simple dish, a combination of silky, paper-thin slices of ripe avocado and marinated fat strips of salty sardine fillets topped with crisp strings of scallions and chives, which makes for a great textural contrast—easy to duplicate and hard to forget.

The combination is based on a dish from the Canary

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