For this week’s #52NewFoods Les Petits Chefs worked with avocados. To be honest, I thought this would be an easy sell – I mean, I guessed many of them loved guacamole so it wouldn’t be too hard to convince them to work with it.
At the beginning of the session, we asked the boys who liked avocado and only about 1/3 of them raised their hands. When I asked who liked guacamole, only a few more raised theirs. I was surprised but then I remembered that when I was their age I don’t think I liked avocado either. When asked to tell me what avocado felt like, we got: soft, slimy, smooth, creamy, squishable, mashable. Right then.
We asked the boys if they could think of recipes using avocados and they came up with guacamole, salads and sushi. Ok, so that’s a great start. But then they got to looking at the stations I had set up for them and spied the station with the cocoa, sugar, milk etc… and wondered aloud if I might be mistaken. Avocados in a dessert? I must be kidding, right? But the presence of sugar and cocoa powder was enough to sway 5 of the littlest guys that this might be “the” recipe to work on so they bravely manned the dessert station awaiting further instructions.
They worked with me to remove the flesh from the avocados…
Our ingredients ended up looking “just like chocolate pudding” and the boys portioned it out into Dixie cups (I didn’t want to make too much in case they didn’t like it!).
In any case, our guacamole turned out great!
The boys took home a little sampling of each:
Enough said. That’s a #win in my book!
Read about the Chocolate-Avocado rocket on the 52 new Foods website.
Get the recipe for James’ guacamole from the 52 New Foods cookbook here.
Get the recipe for Avocado and Brown rice Rolls from the 52 New Foods cookbook here.
Want to see 52 New Foods in action? Check out the 52 New Foods Junior Chef Classes at your local Williams Sonoma (call your local store for details!)
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Disclosure: I received a copy of the 52 New Foods Challenge cookbook for the purposes of taking part in the #52NewFoods Challenge through Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution Ambassador Community. I was asked to create one original recipe for the challenge. I did not receive any further compensation for writing this post nor any other promotion of the book I might be involved with.