Christmas is just around the corner and I am super excited for various reasons and I hope you guys as excited too! Before I continue, I would like to give the usual shout-out to Hive account@progressivechef for hosting this great initiative and also to all the great people from this community who has been supporting this initiative by either joining the challenge itself, sponsoring the awards, creating a related sub-initiative,commenting, voting or resteeming #steemit-ironchef related posts. I am sincerely grateful for this initiative as it has made me realized how fun it can be to create different dishes using only one item as the main ingredient. Everyone is welcome to participate in this challenge and if you are interested to know more or even join this challenge yourself, you can check out the link here.

PRODUCTS USED

Avocado
Whipping Cream
Granulated Sugar
Apple Juice
Cinnamon Stick
Dried Cranberries
Agar-agar Strips
Lemon Concentrate
Mixed Fruits (Strawberries, Blueberries, Orange, Cherry Tomatoes)
Icing Sugar
Brown Sugar Syrup
Mint Leaf (for garnish)

To be honest, I almost decided to give up on this week's challenge as I was a little caught up with work, but then I thought: I have been participating the #steemit-ironchef challenge for quite awhile now, so why not try to take on this week's challenge as well especially when the main item for this week is AVOCADO .

The initial thought that came to me was that I wanted to use Avocado to make a dessert, and when I think of desserts, I thought of sweets, and when I thought of sweets, I thought of fruits and sweetened cream. Therefore, I decided to create a simple dessert dish which will be sweet and slightly tangy flavoured infusing with one of my all-time-favourite, the Avocado.

PROCESS

First, using a pair of kitchen scissors, I cut out some agar-agar strips into little pieces and soaked them in a bowl of cool water to soften them.

I then took out a piece of cinnamon stick.

In a pot, I boiled 2 cups of apple juice, 2 tablespoons of lemon concentrate and the cinnamon stick I took out earlier. Once it starts boiling, I reduced the fire to low heat and allow the juice to continue in a simmer for the cinnamon stick to excrete out it's flavour even more.

After about 20-30 minutes, I took out the cinnamon stick, strained the agar-agar pieces and added them into the juice and stirred vigorously with a whisk and made sure the gelatin pieces are properly melted before I turned off the fire and poured the juice in a container and leave it to cool until it reaches room temperature and I kept it in the chiller.

In a mixing bowl, I diced up a handful of strawberries, blueberries and 1 orange. I also cut up a handful of cherry tomatoes into fours. I then mixed in 2 tablespoons of icing sugar, 2 tablespoons of brown sugar syrup and 1 tablespoons of lemon concentrate. I evenly mixed the fruits together and transferred them into a 1/3 GN Pan.

I poured 1 full cup of whipping cream and 2 tablespoons of granulated sugar and blended the cream with a hand blender (I actually forgot to bring my hand mixer machine, thus I tried using a hand blender to see if it could whip up some cream and it actually works!)

Using a spoon, I scooped out the avocado flesh after cutting it in half. I used 2 avocados.

I then mashed the avocado into a paste using a fork.

I mixed the cream with the avocado paste until it's even, then I added in a handful of dried cranberries.

Once the apple cinnamon jelly has set, I cut out the jelly into cube sizes.

In a glass, I first insert the jelly cubes, layered it with the mixed fruits I made a while ago, and scooped a generous amount of avocado and cranberry cream on top of the fruits. I finished the dessert with more dried cranberries and a mint sprig as garnish on top of the cream.