The emerald oil of avocado oil was on the menu at the Grove Look, Cook & Eat event at the Seafood School at Auckland Fish Market when we rolled up for a cooking demo – and of course to eat the spoils…
The emerald oil of avocados was on the menu at the Grove Look, Cook & Eat event at the Seafood School at Auckland Fish Market when we rolled up at on November 30th for a cooking demo – and of course to eat the spoils.
The green-hued oil gets its tint from the avocados – it takes 12 ripe fruit to make one bottle – and its flavour from the limes it is infused with. It is their best-selling avocado oil.
Chef Mark Dronjak lead an entertaining hour-long session teaching food and lifestyle media about cooking seafood dishes with the oil, including prawn wontons, raw tuna salaad, and skin-on snapper.
Below: "Avocados should feel this firm…"
Below: Seafood School students listening to Chef Mark’s lesson. Luckily for us, there was no exam at the end, only food tasting!
Chef chops the pineapple and capsicum for the tuna salad, before assembling it and drizzling it with Grove Lime infused Avocado Oil he mixed with fresh chili.
Fresh tuna for the raw fish salad.
The finished result of the prawns on wontons, which were fried in Grove’s lime-infused avocado oil. It was delicious, and although I doubt I can personally recreate any of Chef Mark’s dishes at home, I’ll be using the oil to cook with and drizzling it over salads this summer.
Grove is available from supermarkets throughout New Zealand for $10.99. For more recipes see www.avocado-oil.co.nz
Megan Robinson 3 December 2011
Leave a Reply