not rocket science guacamole salad

i accidentally bought a bag of 20 avocados for a quid at the market at the end of the day ... so expect a rush of guacamole. here i added it to some leftover couscous, with a bit of apple for fresh crunch, which you can of course leave out if you fear fruit in salads (and yeah, yeah, i know the tomato's really a fruit). you could also add in something toasted - pine nuts or sunflower seeds - for extra protein if you were feeling like heating something.

Ingredients

• 1/2 small bowl couscous, already rehydrated with some veg stock and cooled
  
• 1/2 a ripe avocado, chopped into quite fat chunks
  
• 1/4 - 1/2 red chilli (depending on how much of a wuss you are), finely chopped
• 1/2 granny smith apple, chopped (you could use any variety, except golden delicious cos they are horrible)
  
• 1 tomato, chopped
• handful rocket, roughly chopped
• squish of lime juice
• splash balsamic
• salt, pepper
  

Method

1. place the couscous in a bowl and toss in the rest of the ingredients. This ain't rocket science.

extreme green bean machine

speedy vaguely italian salad, simply dressed with lemon juice and olive oil, ideal for hoovering up leftover green salady items and excellent with sprouted funny beans :)


Ingredients

• a ripe avocado
• handful of spinach
• can cannellini beans
• large handful cress and/or alfalfa and/or any other random sprouts
• lemon juice
• olive oil
• salt, pepper
  
• few chopped jalepenos

Method

1. Chop the avocado and spinach and bung in a bowl.
2. Add the beans and cress and mix a bit.
3. Add lemon juice, olive oil, salt, pepper and jalepenos (if using) and toss lightly.
4. Inhale.
   

green bhaji squishup

a simple green lunch feat. onion bhaji, sort-of guacamole and spinach, inspired by finding some cut-price bhajis in the supermarket :)

ingredients

• one squishy avocado
• couple of handfuls of fresh spinach
• an onion bhaji
• lemon juice
• paprika, smoked if you've got it
• dried crushed chillis
• 2 wholemeal pitas
  

method

1. bung the pita in the toaster and the bhaji in the microwave.
   
2. squish the avocado up with the lemon juice, paprika and chilli according to taste.
3. once the pita's toasted, carefully remove it, avoiding the boiling steam (my friend jo still has a burn from ejected pita steam from 1997), and split in half.
4. mush half the bhaji onto one side of the pita, and half the avocado onto the other. fill the middle with a handful of spinach, and squish together. repeat for the other pita.
5. squish into face. mmmmm.