Tips for healthy meals with avocado
There are thousands of ways to eat healthy and delicious food at the same time. Get inspired with these mouth-watering images of avocado dishes.
In this salad, avocado is combined with sweet potato cubes, tomatoes, cooked chickpeas (which stimulate your digestion), and the green sprouts that you like the most.
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Stuffed avocado is one of the best ways to enjoy this food. It helps us reduce cholesterol and is good for hypertension. The filling is a Greek salad consisting of tomato, feta cheese, red onion, and pomegranate seeds. To season, add a few drops of lemon, a pinch of salt, and oregano.
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Avocado toast is a good option for breakfast or a snack. It is light but also satisfying to the extent that you won't feel like snacking extra between meals.
Take a slice of whole wheat bread, lightly toast it in a pan or toaster, and add sliced or mashed avocado with a splash of lime or lemon to keep its fresh green color. With slices of cherry tomato and seeds (a source of natural protein), you will add some extra flavor to the dish.
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Breakfast is one of the most important meals of the day and if you combine avocado toast with pieces of cheese, which provide you with calcium, along with a healthy toast, you will enjoy a breakfast that will fill you with energy to start your day full of vitality.
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Feel like experimenting with flavors? Try the combination of avocado and fruit! Mashed avocado, a little onion, and some slices of strawberry make for a great surprise. You can accompany them with some corn nachos.
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There are many variations of hummus, apart from the traditional chickpea version. To make avocado hummus, you crush cooked chickpeas and spice them to your liking. Then, you add sliced avocado and lemon juice and blend all together once again. This dish is great with a boiled egg and nuts.
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Legumes are a great source of nutrients that cannot be missing from our diet. The quinoa will provide you with protein and the edamame (soybeans in pods) have a high fiber content. To finish our dish you would only need to add a little beet and avocado.
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The avocado smoothie will serve as breakfast or snack between meals. It is totally healthy and with 4 or 5 ingredients it will be very delicious and creamy. The ingredients are avocado, banana, dates to sweeten, and vegetable drink. Put some green leaf on it and enjoy!
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Another healthy recipe is avocado with potato. The latter will provide you with a large amount of potassium and water. You just have to cook them with a little salt and then mix the cubes of cooked potato with the avocado. Radish and celery give the salad its extra flavor.
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Who doesn't love a good burger? Here we show you a great vegan option. You just have to make your usual legume burger, add a little lettuce, tomato, and avocado, and put them on a healthy bun.
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Avocado soup is easy: mix onion, potato, and a little butter. To give it flavour and make it thinner you add a little milk or chicken broth. At the end, you add the chopped avocado and pass all of it through a blender. Sweeten the soup with figs and melon cubes.
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Fajitas are a dish that you can combine in a thousand ways and all of them are delicious. On this occasion, you will change the chicken for avocado. With a poached egg, vegetables, and white rice, which is an antioxidant, you will make a dish like never before.
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Surely this is a combination you have never tried. Too much sausage is never good, but a little of it with avocado is delicious. One of the healthiest types of sausage is cured loin. With a little avocado and cheese, you can enjoy this as a magnificent snack.
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Sushi is that Japanese dish that many hate before they try it. And then they cannot stop eating it. Together with its nori seaweed, rich in vitamin C, sushi is a delicacy that we can enjoy whenever we want. The filling can have multiple combinations, but the avocado is undoubtedly one of the best.
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Fill a jar with white lentils (which contain iron), cherry tomatoes, onion, lettuce, a little tofu (to give it consistency) and avocado, our star ingredient. You'll end up with a tasty and nutritious mix.
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A variation of the previous dish is a refreshing bowl with vegetables like carrots and zucchini. In addition to the sliced avocado with the lemon drip (to keep its fresh look and taste), add fried or baked sweet potato, a little red onion, and carrots and zucchini in thin slices. You will find yourself unable to stop eating it.
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You don't have to go to a fancy restaurant to eat these healthy bowls that are so fashionable these days. First fill the salad bowl with green vegetables like spinach, which are high in fiber, and then add whole wheat noodles or sushi rice. With sliced avocado and some tofu cubes, you can finish your own Asian fusion plate.
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