Recipe: Jackie's Afro Avo

What's Cooking leaves Durban and heads into the Midlands to Hartford House, where legendary chef Jackie Cameron takes us through one of her East Coast Tables: The Inland Edition recipes: Afro Avo. 

 

Stylish and tasty, Jackie serves this as the cheese course on the Hartford House tasting menu. And yes, that is a 'Fro comb she uses to texturize the avo!

 

Ingredients: 

3 small avocados

3 tsp freshly squeezed lemon juice

Salt and pepper to taste

300g (2 logs) ash-coated chevin 

3 pieces coppa or Parma-style ham, oven dried, roughly broken

½ red onion, sliced into half-moons

1 kiwi fruit, skinned, sliced, quartered

12 tiny tips fresh mint

A grind of black pepper, per plate

A drizzle of virgin olive oil, per plate

12 butter-coated, oven dried slices of home-made melba toast

 

Method

Mix avo, lemon juice and seasoning into a puree. Comb avo onto a stylish plate or slate. Place all other ingredients beautifully, finishing with crisp melba toast.

 

 

* East Coast Tables: The Inland Edition is available at all good book stores.