cucumber with avocado pesto

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Cucumber Filled with Avocado Pesto

 

Recipe By :Lindsay Wagner and Ariane Spade

Serving Size : 6 Preparation Time :0:00

Categories : New Import

 

Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method

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1 large cucumber

preferably hot-house

3 large garlic cloves -- chopped

1 tablespoon pine nuts

15 large basil leaves -- very finely chopped

1/4 teaspoon salt

1 avocado -- ripe but not dark, pitted and peeled

1 teaspoon fresh lemon juice

sliced black olives

pimento strips for garnish

 

1. If you have a hot-house cucumber, simply wash and dry it. If you don't,

remove strips of peel, lengthwise, leaving thin strips of peel in place. The

cucumber will look white with thin green lengthwise stripes. Cut the cucumber in

half, lengthwise. With an apple corer or teaspoon, remove the seeds by cutting a

channel in the cucumber lengthwise down the center of both halves, three

quarters of an inch wide and equally deep. Discard the seeds.

 

2. Crush the garlic. Pulverize the pine nuts in a blender, mini-food processor,

or mortar and pestle. In a small bowl, mix the garlic, pine nuts, basil leaves,

and salt.

 

3. Mash the avocado with a fork and pass through a sieve to puree. Add the lemon

juice and garlic-pine nut paste and mix well.

 

4. Fill the channels evenly with the pesto. Garnish with olive slices and a

single line of pimentos running down the center of each channel.

 

5. Chill, cut into 1/3-inch pieces, and serve.

 

Source:

" The High Road to Health: a vegetarian cookbook "

S(VegRecipes):

" Hanneman (kitpath) 2001/04/16 "

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Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 71 Calories; 6g Fat (68.4% calories from

fat); 1g Protein; 5g Carbohydrate; 1g Dietary Fiber; 0mg Cholesterol; 94mg

Sodium. Exchanges: 0 Grain(Starch); 0 Lean Meat; 1/2 Vegetable; 0 Fruit; 1 Fat.

 

NOTES : Serve this as an hors d'oeuvre with whole-grain bread, crackers, or as

part of an antipasto with Whole-wheat bread sticks.

 

Nutr. Assoc. : 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2130706543