Recipe - Avocados With Chipotle And Lime

1 Avocado
3 tablespoon Chipotle Hot Sauce; at room
temperature, or canned
chipotle chiles in adobo
sauce
1 tablespoon Warm water
1 tablespoon Sundried tomatoes; (oil
packed) drained and chopped
1 Lime

Skin the avocado, cut it in half lengthwise, and remove the pit. Slice the
halves lengthwise into 6 to 10 thin slices, and fan them out on small
plates (3 to 5 slices per serving).

Combine the chipotle sauce, water, and sundried tomatoes in a blender, and
puree. Spoon a fine, decorative line across the fanned avocado slices. Cut
the lime in half. Squeeze a bit of juice from one half of the lime over the
top of each fan; cut the other half into 4 thin slices. Garnish the plates
with lime slices and serve.

Note: Avocado should be ripe, creamy, and of the Haas variety (the nubbly
black avocados, not smooth the greenskinned ones, which can be watery). A
delicate, deep red line of hot sauce painted across the avocado is visually
dramatic, and the spiciness accentuates the avocado's cool smoothness. This
dish makes an elegant and very easy first course for a dinner party.

Jennifer Trainer Thompson, Jump Up and Kiss Me, Spicy Vegetarian Cooking MC
formatted by Brenda Adams adamsfmle@sprintmail.com

Recipe by: Jennifer Trainer Thompson, Jump Up and Kiss Me

Posted to recipeludigest Volume 01 Number 188 by Terry Pogue
tpogue@idsonline.com on Nov 1, 1997