Thursday, December 6, 2007

Banana Avocado Sauce with Pomagranate Sauce/Seeds

One of our first postings was our Banana Avocado Sauce. This is the perfect time of year for this sauce for you and your baby. And it makes a beautiful holiday sauce sprinkled with a few pomegranate seeds!!! If you read back it is a simple recipe:

Banana Avocado Sauce
1 ripe banana
1 ripe avocado
1/2 lemon juiced
1/2 orange juiced

Peel your avocado and banana and place in the jar of blender. Add the juice of the lemon and orange and as Mama Flava said -- out comes this yummy fluffy green sauce filled with incredible nutrients. Have any of you recently received the email about the banana and all the health benefits it holds? It should be a banana and apple a day keep the Doctor away (no offense Popop Flava!)

This sauce would be great along with the Baby Latkes. To make it a powerhouse, you could also add a tablespoon or two of pomegranate juice and WOW it packs a health kick not to mention the dynamite flavor!

Now for the adults...use the Banana Avocado sauce as a base (pool it or squiggle it) on your plate and place on top of it: a brownie, a piece of chocolate cake, a small piece of cheesecake, a poached pear, a thin slice of tarte tatin (apple tart or pie) and THEN sprinkle it with pomegranate seeds. Beeeee-utiful and yummy.
For Grammie Flava it must look good as well as taste good!

Working with pomegranates: I am sure you've all seen on the food shows...take the seeds out of your pomegranate in a bowl of water to avoid the juice spurting everywhere (and staining) and it is much easier to dislodge them. Use the seeds as is or to make a scrumptious pomegranate sauce:

Place seeds in food processor and grind.
Pour through sieve to remove seeds.
Take liquid and place in small sauce pot.
Cook on medium and reduce down to a lovely syrup you can drizzle on:
Cakes, fresh fruit, roasted chicken, or use as a glaze for fish or fowl.

So many easy things to do with a single healthy item!

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