Not so long ago, on the shelves of stores appearedexotic fruit - avocado. As a rule, it has a pear-like shape, and it is easy to distinguish by green or dark green color. 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 avocados before, or at least did not buy it yourself, you may have a lot of questions: "What kind of fruit to choose?",
"How to clean the avocado?" etc. A few tips will help you to avoid 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 importantThe selection criteria should be its softness. Sour fruit will be hard, and their flesh - bitter or tasteless. The skin of the ripe fruit is easy to give under pressure, but the fruit of the avocado should not be too soft. If you bought an immature fruit, put it in a dark place until it ceases to be too dense. On the ripeness of the fruit may indicate a small black dots on the skin.
How to clean an avocado
Finally an interesting fruit was in your kitchen!Before you regale his flesh, you need to get rid of the peel and large bones. How to clean avocado fastest? Cut the fruit along without touching the seed.
If it is ripe, two parts will be easily separatedfrom each other with the help of hands. In this avocado peel easily lagged behind the pulp, so the whole process will take a few minutes. If the fruit is hard and green, and the skin is not separated by light efforts, you have nothing left but to clean the avocado with a knife. Using a sharp blade, try not to damage the seed - the flesh in the places of contact with the stone will become bitter and tasteless.
How and with what is avocado
There are many people who preferthere is this interesting product in its pure form - the fruit has an oily and very greasy flesh with an almost palpable sweet taste. Often sliced avocados are used in salads. When buying a fruit at the store for this purpose, make sure that it is not too soft. Lovers of toast smear avocado flesh over the bread. Such a sandwich can be sprinkled with salt, sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg or any other seasoning to your taste.
Before you serve a dish that has an avocado, make sure to taste it - sometimes very bitter fruits fall on the store shelves.
Growing Avocados at Home
Stone, which you extracted from the purchasedfruit, do not necessarily discard. Plant it with the sharp part up, shallow, without moderately watering it. After 2-3 weeks, the majority of the seeds appear sprouts, and the plant itself quickly gains height, which in six months can be 1.5 meters. Whether your tree will bear fruit depends on many factors - first of all, on the climate and timely irrigation. However, the results in the form of large and oily avocados should not be expected earlier than in 3-5 years.
