Not so long ago an exotic fruit appeared on store shelves - avocado. As a rule, it is pear-shaped and easy to distinguish by its green or dark green color. The peel on the fruit can be smooth or have small tubercles - this is not an indicator of quality, but a feature of a particular variety. If you have never tried an avocado before, or at least haven’t bought it yourself, you may have many questions: "Which fruit to choose?",
"How to peel an avocado?" etc. A few tips will help you avoid making mistakes when buying, as well as give an idea of how this overseas product is usually eaten.
How to choose the right avocado in the store
Wherever you buy avocados, the most important criterion for choosing should be its softness. Unripe fruits will be hard and their flesh will be bitter or tasteless. The peel of a ripe fruit lends itself easily to pressure, but the fruit of the avocado should not be too soft. If you bought an unripe fruit, put it in a dark place until it ceases to be too dense. The ripeness of the fruit may indicate small black dots on the skin.
How to peel an avocado
Finally, an interesting fruit appeared in your kitchen! Before feasting on its flesh, it is necessary to get rid of the skin and large bone. How to clean avocados the fastest? Cut the fruit along without touching the seed.
If it is ripe, it will be easy to separate two parts from each other with the help of hands. In such an avocado, the peel easily lags behind the pulp, so the whole process will take a few minutes. If the fruit is hard and green, and the skin does not come off with light effort, you have no choice but to clean the avocado with a knife. Using a sharp blade, try not to damage the seed - the flesh at the points of contact with the bone will become bitter and tasteless.
How and with what is avocado
There are many people who prefer to eat this interesting product in its pure form - the fruit has an oily and very oily flesh with a barely perceptible sweet taste. Often sliced avocados are used in salads. When buying fruit at the store for this purpose, make sure it is not too soft. Lovers of toast smear the flesh of avocado on bread. You can sprinkle such a sandwich with salt, sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg or any other seasoning to your taste.
Before serving a dish with avocados on the table, be sure to taste it - sometimes very bitter fruits fall on store shelves.
We grow avocados at home
The bone that you extracted from the purchased fruit does not have to be thrown away. Plant it with the sharp part up, shallow, not forgetting to moderately water it. After 2-3 weeks, sprouts appear on most seeds, and the plant itself quickly gains height, which in half a year can be 1.5 meters. Whether your tree will bear fruit depends on many factors - first of all, on the climate and timely watering. However, results in the form of large and oily avocados should not be expected earlier than after 3-5 years.