How to Dice Avocado

Play
PlayPause
 
Ryan Goodwin avatar
Recipe video made by Ryan Published on 12/14/2019, viewed by 1712
yield1 portionstotal time4m

Diced avocado is great for a salad. In fact, it's pretty good by itself with just a little soy sauce and vinegar.

What you will need

Avocados

(Nutritional facts 160 calories, 14.66 g fat, 8.52 g carbohydrates, 2 g protein, undefined mg cholesterol, 7 mg sodium)

How to cook

1

Play

2

Play
or underripe avocado will be disappointing if not downright uncomfortable.

First make sure that your avocados are ready to eat. Consuming an overripe or underripe avocado will be disappointing if not downright uncomfortable.

3

Play

Remove the hard cap at the stem if present. It may have already fallen out.

4

Play
so as to separate the avocado into 2 symmetrical halves. Slice through the stem end, straight down until the knife is gently embedded in the seed.

Line up your knife, bisecting the recess where the stem cap may have been, so as to separate the avocado into 2 symmetrical halves. Slice through the stem end, straight down until the knife is gently embedded in the seed.

5

Play
owing the seed, until the slice comes back to its beginning. Rolling the avocado like this will help you slice a precise plane around the flesh.

Moving the avocado and not the knife, roll the avocado over the blade, following the seed, until the slice comes back to its beginning. Rolling the avocado like this will help you slice a precise plane around the flesh.

6

Play
e seed. The pit should still be stuck to one half of the avocado. If you only plan to use one half, leave the seed in the opposite half to keep it from browning as quickly. Otherwise, sink your knife into the seed and gently rotate the blade to twist the seed away from the flesh.

Twist the halves gently in opposite directions to release the flesh from the seed. The pit should still be stuck to one half of the avocado. If you only plan to use one half, leave the seed in the opposite half to keep it from browning as quickly. Otherwise, sink your knife into the seed and gently rotate the blade to twist the seed away from the flesh.

7

Play
s lengthwise and 3 or 4 times perpendicular to that.

Carefully dice the avocado while it's still in it's skin. Slice 2 or 3 times lengthwise and 3 or 4 times perpendicular to that.

8

Play

With a large spoon, scoop the flesh from the skin.

9

Play

Comments

Avatar placeholder