Recipe - Avocado-Cream Sauce For Pasta

8 ounce Pasta with shape (e.g.,
penne or spirals)
1 Lemon
1 Avocado
1 80g pkg Boursin with herbs
1 One half dl Koffieroom
50 g Achterham
One half Bakje tuinkers
Salt and freshly ground
pepper; to taste

Translations: "achterham" is a nice cut or sliced up lunchmeattype ham. For a
vegetarian dinner, omit this; or, maybe, replace with mushrooms.

"tuinkers". Hmmm...I really don't know the English name for this, or recall
seeing anything similar. It's in the cress family, but smallerleaved than
watercress. You buy a little box (the bakje) that is filled with a
spongelike block. The tuinkers are sprouting from that, maybe one inch
high. You take you kitchen shears or a knife and cut off what you want.
Anybody know what this is? They're good sprinkled in a salad. I suppose you
could use some kind of sprouts, maybe mixed, with radish sprouts included
for the peppery taste.

Peel the avocado and remove the seed. Cut into chunks and place in food
processor (or blender).

Wash the lemon. Into the processor, finely grate half the peel, avoiding
the white part. Add the juice from half the lemon to the processor (other
half not used).

Add the Boursin and koffieroom to the processor. Whiz till smooth.

Pour into a small saucepan. Warm over low heat from about 10 minutes.

Meanwhile, cut the ham into strips. Cut the tunikers from their bed. Stir
into sauce. Add S&P to taste.

Serve over a shaped pasta. Penne was good, but maybe try something a bit
smaller.
Recipe By : TIP Magazine

Posted to EATL Digest 11 November 96

Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 08:55:39 +0100

From: Kaye Sykes Sykes.Kaye@UNIFACE.NL