Avocado
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- if you buy avocadoes hard, ripen them on your kitchen windowsill, they're ready when they 'just give' as you squeeze them.
- to speed up the ripening process you can put them into a paper bag (or dark drawer) with a banana as they produce ethylene gas naturally as they ripen. Ethylene residues on the bananas will help the avocado or other fruit to ripen quickly
- mix over-ripe avocado with milk, yoghurt and a touch of maple syrup or sugar for a lovely green smoothie
- lemon juice helps to stop avocados turning brown
- if you pop the avocado stone into a bowl of guacamole or salsa it will keep the dip fresh and green for at least 2 hours; remove the stone before serving
- ripe avocado can be spread onto toast instead of butter
- keep the half avocado with the stone still in place and put it on a dish/plate in the fridge, you should be able to use the avocado the following day without it going off