AVOCADO AND GOATS' CHEESE CROSTINI
Ingredients
- 18 thin slices baguette (1 baguette cut into rounds)
- 1 clove garlic
- halved
- extra virgin olive oil
- 1 ripe avocado
- peeled and diced
- 100g/3½oz soft goats' cheese
- 1 tbsp lemon juice
- 1 tbsp chopped basil
- 1 tbsp diced red onion
- salt and freshly ground black pepper
Directions
- Preheat the oven to 180C/360F/Gas 4.
- Brush the bread slices with the garlic and a little olive oil
- and bake in the oven until golden and crisp (about 10 minutes). Remove from the oven and allow to cool.
- Meanwhile
- make the avocado mixture. Mash the avocado with the goats' cheese.
- Fold in two tablespoons of olive oil
- the lemon juice
- basil and onion. Season to taste.
- Top each crostini with a mound of the avocado mixture
- and serve.
