This week Tony Astle offers up a recipe for Chilled Avocado Soup with Vodka, Chives and Macadamia Nuts.
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Recipe of the Week: Chilled Avocado Soup with Vodka, Chives and Macadamia Nuts
4 portions
Ingredients:
- 3 ripe avocados
- 125 g tomato, roughly chopped
- 25 g green capsicum, chopped
- 25 g celery, chopped
- 25 g chives, chopped
- 30 ml lemon juice
- 125 g sour cream
- 3-4 drops tabasco sauce
- 60 ml vodka
- 400 ml chicken stock
- Salt, to taste
Garnish:
3-4 macadamia nuts
chopped chives
Method:
- Peel the avocados, discard the stones and peel.
- Combine avocado flesh, tomato, capsicum, celery, chives, lemon juice, and sour cream in a blender. Blend well to combine and puree.
- Then, add the tabasco and vodka.
- Keeping the blender running, add sufficient chicken stock until a soup consistency is achieved.
- Pour into a storage bowl, check seasoning. Refrigerate 1-2 hours.
To Serve:
Pour into shot glasses, top with shaved macadamia nut and chives.
or
Portion into four chilled bowls, top with shaved macadamia nut and chives.
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Episode Transcript
Well, we're not. We're not going to be able to
do where you wait, last, how on earth did it
get so late? We're just about it at the end
of the show. I know. No, well we can't possibly
do it justice, so we shan't. So we'll do the
recipe for the week, which you can find on the
news talks He'd be website. Chilled avocado soup with vodka,
chive and Macedonian it avocados are in season now and
(00:21):
cheapest chips.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
You know you've got avocados, You've got asparagus. You've got
a mix of two of them in the Super's just unbelievable. Chill,
it must be chill. It's just so look everyone has
hot suits. But like FISHI swaz which is a leak
and potato avocado is mixed with it, with it with
the asparagus. Is just the biggest dream you've ever had.
Great on Christmas Day, you know, if you want it
(00:44):
to be but green, you can put a few frozen
peas into it at the last night to get it green.
It's just sweet, it's beautiful. And the Maceadamian that's just unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
And could you put a few little red capscicums or
tomatoes in there to give it that Christmas eve.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
To do that, I mean, it's a per Christmas suit.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
See, I've never thought of avocado as a soup, and
I don't know why, because it's perfect as a guacamole,
and that's only one step away from being a soup.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
And the thing is it's all great fat, but it
also thickens itself, so I mean, it's just unbelievable. It's
like it's just like eating it looks it's like eating
espishly when you get macadamia nuts and there's a beautiful
taste and you're right, put chop up green asparagus tips
put redly. I mean you've got a Christmas tree.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Yeah you have, and it would be absolutely beautiful. It
looks like what you're doing though in the recipe, which
you can get on our website, is that you've taken
the avocado, the capsicum, the chives, the sour cream, and
then you've made a bloody mary and tip that in there.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
You know what the blood you know me, I can't
don't tell all the mic king people, but I have
to have my little bloody Mary with you know. And
that's not an addiction. But the avocado soup will become
an addiction.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
It's a really really nice recipe and easy to do,
tasty as all bloody well and perfect for Christmas Day.
You're quite right it is. I don't know how. I'm
so sorry, Tony. I don't know how hardly worth getting
out of We had a bit like Cindy Crawford.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
I get out of bed just to come and see you.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
I was gonna say something, was going to say something
very rude there. But we will do the restaurant review
next week and I'll be much more on top of
my timings. I do apologize, Thank you so much, Tony,
And as I say that, oh chilled o soup with
vodka chiev and Macadamian outlooks, Gore, just go to our
website Newstalk SIDB dot co dot m Z right. The
(02:27):
song is the most popular wedding song, the one guaranteed
to get everybody up on the d floor. Whitney Houston.
I want to dance with somebody dancing into the weekend
to have a great weekend. See you Monday.
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