Name: Avocat en Salade
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 50 min
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: France
Ingredients: juice of ½ lemon; bunch of flat-leaf parsley; 1 tbsp olive oil; 1-2 red chillies; freshly ground black pepper; 3 large ripe avocados; sea salt; 2 tbsp fromage frais; 400 g purple potatoes, or small waxy variety; 2 bunch of chives

Preparation info

Serves
6

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
50 min

Appears in

The French Market

By Joanne Harris and Fran Warde

Published 2005

About

This salad is perfect served slightly warm, on its own or as a sophisticated accompaniment to a simple grilled chicken or fish dish.

Ingredients

400 g purple potatoes, or small waxy variety
2 bunch of chives
1-2

Method

Steam the potatoes for 20 minutes, then leave to cool for 10 minutes. Chop the chives, red chillies (with the seeds if you like it spicy) and the leaves from the parsley, and mix together in a bowl. Add the fromage frais, olive oil, lemon juice and seasoning and mix well.

Just before serving, chop the potatoes and place in a serving bowl. Cut the avocados in half, remove the stones and