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Why You’ll Love My Recipe
Spiced, grilled, and filled with pico de gallo, these avocados make the perfect appetizer for taco night.
For more great avocado recipes, why not make this Avocado Crema recipe? Or maybe make this Best Taco Dip instead? Serve these grilled avocados alongside some Taco Sheet Pan Nachos or a Simple Mexican Coleslaw.
Karlynn’s Recipe Notes
- Skill Level: This is an easy recipe.
- Total Time: This will only take you approximately 10 minutes to make.
- Variations: Make your own Pico de Gallo to use in this recipe. That way you can add chopped hot peppers or extra cilantro or whatever your heart desires. Add garlic powder or minced garlic. Slice up some lime to serve on the side. Adjust the amount of cumin, add salt and pepper according to taste.
- Tools Needed: For this recipe, you’ll need a sharp knife, a whisk, a small bowl, some measuring spoons, and a basting brush.
What You’ll Need For Ingredients
Pico de Gallo: Similar to salsa, this delicious condiment is made from a combination of onion (usually red), tomato, and cilantro. There may also be garlic, hot peppers, lime juice, and other seasonings added. It’s easy to make at home.
Oil: This recipe calls for olive oil, but any neutral oil will work. Maybe even use avocado oil if you happen to have some around. Just pay attention to the smoke point and watch for burning.
Spices: This recipe calls for chili powder and cumin, but you could try using your favourite taco seasoning blend. Adjust to your own tastes. Add any salt at the very last minute, so that it doesn’t draw too much moisture out of the rest of the ingredients.
How to Make Grilled Avocado & Pico de Gallo
This is a brief overview of the recipe. The full list of ingredients and step-by-step instructions are in the recipe card below.
- Wash avocados and cut in half, removing pit carefully.
- In a small bowl, whisk together oil, chili powder, and cumin. Brush cut side of avocado with a generous amount of the mixture.
- Preheat barbecue to high.
- Put avocado halves facedown on the grill and cook for 4-5 minutes, until you’ve got grill marks.
- Remove the avocados from the hat and fill the centers with Pico de Gallo. Serve with tortilla chips.
Karlynn’s Tips and Tricks for Making Grilled Avocado and Pico de Gallo
Choosing the Perfect Avocados: This is not the kind of recipe that you’ll want to use rock hard avocados for, unless you’re giving them a day or two to ripen before you prepare them. Instead, try to find avocados that give a little under your thumb when you press into the flesh, but not ripe enough to turn to mush under your fingers.
Making Pico de Gallo: At it’s basics, this is a combo of equal parts onion and tomato, with garlic, lime juice, and seasonings. Diced Jalapenos or Serranos are also commonly used. If you are someone who has digestive trouble when you eat raw garlic and onions, try soaking them in a cold water bath before adding them to the diced tomatoes. If you dislike cilantro, you can skip it, but you may want to look for some sort of alternative that you enjoy.
Storage Instructions
This recipe is best prepared and eaten fresh. If you’ve made homemade Pico de Gallo, that can be stored in a covered container in the fridge for several days, but the grilled avocado is unlikely to refrigerate or freeze well.
Avocado Storage Tip: When you find avocados that are the precise ripeness you want, put them in the fridge. This will help them to stay at that level of ripeness.
More Delicious Appetizer Recipes
Need more ideas for easy appetizers?
Try these Sausage Stuffed Mushrooms for your next party.
This Hot N’ Cheesy Spinach & Artichoke Dip is perfect for dipping crackers, bread, or vegetables.
Or make some Simply Delicious Stuffed Mushrooms.
There you go, everyone. A tasty, easy, and healthy way to cook avocados. Try it out and let me know what you think.
Happy Grilling!
Karlynn
Grilled Avocados
Ingredients
- 2 ripe avocados, halved and pitted
- ¼ cup olive oil
- ¼ teaspoon chili powder
- ¼ teaspoon cumin
- 1 cup pico de Gallo, see notes
- tortilla chips, scoop style
Instructions
- Wash and slice your avocados in half, removing the pit carefully.
- Whisk together the olive oil, chili powder and cumin.
- Brush the cut side of each avocado with the oil mixture generously.
- Preheat your BBQ to high.
- Once heated, lay the avocados on the grill so they will have gorgeous grill marks across them. Grill for 4-5 minutes, watching carefully and checking after the first 3 minutes.
- Remove the avocados when they have nice dark grill marks on them.
- Fill with pico de Gallo and serve with torilla scoop chips.
Notes
- make sure you have extra pico de gallo for guests
- scale this as needed for extra servings
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Ross Bellwood says
My kinda snack!
Karlynn Johnston says
This was on my dinner menu when I finally have you two over, but you can try it at home. I would, since my house is going to be a disaster forever. I really love the charred flavor that it gives them! I’ve seen it around before, I’m not the creator of grilled avocado, but I DID beat ya to it! 😉
Phil says
I’ve never thought to grill the avocados before. I’m totally trying this.
You’re such a jerk for thinking of this before me! 😉
Nohemi Espejel says
sososos Yu,my Dorotos chips and avocado was used
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