Smashed avocado with crispy chicken, pickled onions & tortillas

Name: Smashed avocado with crispy chicken, pickled onions & tortillas
Prep time: 1 h 15 min
Cook time: 1 h 15 min
Total time: 1 h 15 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 2 larges very ripe avocados; 1 juice lemon; 8 seeded soft tortillas, or your favourite flatbreads, warmed; 1 small bunch coriander, to serve; 1 large red onion, very thinly sliced; 100 milliliters red wine vinegar; 4 Tbsps caster sugar; 4 skinless chicken breasts, each cut into 3-4 chunky strips; 284 milliliters pot buttermilk; 85 grams polenta or cornmeal; 85 grams plain flour; 1 Tbsp sesame seed; 1 Tbsp sweet paprika; 1 teaspoons cayenne pepper; 2 pinches ground cinnamon; 1 teaspoon garlic salt (or normal salt); 1 serving sunflower oil, for shallow-frying

Smashed avocado with crispy chicken, pickled onions & tortillas could be just the dairy free recipe you've been looking for. This recipe covers 49% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. One serving contains 1001 calories, 79g of protein, and 32g of fat. This recipe serves 4. This recipe from BBC Good Food requires pot buttermilk, paprika, your favourite flatbreads, and polenta. It works well as a pretty expensive main course. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes around 1 hour and 15 minutes. If you like this recipe, you might also like recipes such as Crispy Smashed Potatoes with Avocado Garlic Aioli, Oaxaca Burger with Manchego, Avocado and Pickled Habanero Onions, and Massaged Kale Salad with Avocado and Pickled Red Onions.

Instructions

Mix the chicken strips with the buttermilk and chill for about half a day.

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Chicken Tenders

Buttermilk

Mix all the onion ingredients, season with salt and set aside to marinate for at least 30 mins or up to half a day.

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Onion

Salt

Mix together the polenta or cornmeal, flour, sesame seeds, paprika, cayenne pepper, cinnamon and garlic salt on a plate.

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Cayenne Pepper

Sesame Seeds

Garlic Salt

Cinnamon

Polenta

Paprika

All Purpose Flour

Heat 2cm sunflower oil in a deep frying pan (or slightly more in a big wok) until a cube of bread browns in 1 min. Lift the chicken from the buttermilk and drop into the flour mix, tossing to coat well.

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Sunflower Oil

Buttermilk

Flour Mix

Whole Chicken

Bread

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Frying Pan

Wok

Add about 3 chicken strips at a time to the oil and fry, turning, until golden on all sides and just cooked through.

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Cooking Oil

Drain on kitchen paper while you fry the rest.

Halve and stone each avocado, scrape out the flesh into a bowl with the lemon juice and some seasoning, and very roughly smash together with the back of a spoon.

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Lemon Juice