Contributed By: kmchaney
Adapted from The 5 in 10 Cookbook, p.135
This odd cooked avocado dish surprised me by being really good.
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Total Preparation Time: 15 to 30 minutes
Ingredients: Rice, Pasta & Bread
Vegetables
Actual Cooking Time: Less than 15 minutes
Number of Servings: 4
Origin: Mediterranean & Mid-Eastern
Special Features: Quick to Prepare (under 30 minutes)
Simple (6 ingredients or less)
Vegetarian
Meal Type: Entree
Appetizers
Ingredients
3/4 cup Uncooked, quick cooking rice (<10 min)
1/4 tsp Salt
2 Ripe avocados. Must be in good condition when opened
1/4 cup Pine nuts
2 tbl Currants
2 tbl Sour cream
Preparation
1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
2. Cook rice according to package directions; add salt if desired. Proceed with remaining steps while rice is cooking.
3. Cut avocados in half and scoop out most but not all the flesh; leave a thin shell of avocado in the peel.
4. Mash avocado parts which were removed.
5. Mix in the pine nuts, currents, sour cream, and finally the hot rice.
6. Stuff the avocado shells with the rice mixture, mounding the filling to fit as much as you can; bake for 5 minutes.
Cook's Notes
(1) Serve warm or at room temperature. (2) Other types of rice are fine, they just make recipe take longer to prepare. Also, I am not sure the quantity of cooked rice you end up with - will update this if I figure it out later.
Nutrition Information