Hey out there! I made these the other because I had a strange craving for them. Truth is, I hate avocados(I'm sorry!) and when I was on keto I had to find creative ways to get myself to eat them. Outside a strawberry avocado shake, this was my other favorite way to eat them. I thought I'd share my recipe and share with you what else you could do with them. I hope you enjoy!
This will be a partial visual guide as I know some (most) people are visual learners, not verbal. I hope this will help you make the recipe if you so desire. If you like it or want full visual recipe guides, please let me know in the comments. This is written in US measurements, so if you're out of the US, you'll need a conversion chart.
What You'll Need:
6 Boiled Eggs
1/2 Ripened Avocado
1/2 Teaspoon Onion Powder
1/2 Teaspoon Garlic Powder (I alternatively used Garlic Salt in this visual.)
2 Tablespoons Mayonnaise (If you don't like Mayo, Substitute 1 about 1 Tablespoon avocado oil or sunflower oil. I would start putting in small drizzles until fully combined so this recipe isn't too oily. It will depend on the avocado. This recipe uses Mayo in the visual guide.)
1/2 Lemon or Lime
Chile powder of choice to taste
Salt and Pepper to taste
Step one: Peel boiled eggs, cut in half, carefully remove yolks and put them in a bowl. At the end, they should look like this:
I find that if you cover these up with some wrap and put them in fridge they become more of a stable vessel for the mixture we're making. So I recommend you put the empty boiled eggs in the fridge until you're ready.
Yummy yolks.
Step two: Cut 1/2 of your avocado half, add avocado to bowl, add onion powder, garlic powder and mash.
Onion powder.
Garlic powder (I substituted Garlic salt here.)
Not included here is a photo of me adding the optional chili powder.
Step three: Add lemon juice, mayonnaise, and mix.
Lemon juice.
Mayo.
Mix.
Step four: Pack parchment bag with mixture, fill eggs with filling.
So here's a nifty trick. If you don't have a bag and tips with you can get a sandwich bag. Take the sandwich bag and cut the tip? Voila? Fill bag. Not down with plastic, roll a sheet of parchment into a cone and use it to fill the eggs.
In the bag!
Fill eggs.
Finished product. Pictured here topped with some freeze dried chives and trader joe's everything but the bagel seasoning. Other things that this could be topped or mixed in with are bacon, tomatoes, sesame seeds, bell pepper, jalapeño and the traditional paprika. With that said this recipe can be turned into something else all together....something else that people love that has avocado.
Guacamole Eggs
Sound appealing? Take the recipe above, omit two of the egg yolks. Dice finely some onion, tomato, and jalepeno. Mix as above. Take it to a safe, friendly gathering, serve to your family, enjoy on keto, have a snack.
Happy eating!
Hehe, probably tasty! The sprinkles look fun and colourful. But I think something even more vegetarian than bird eggs is actual avocados.
After all, avocado is one of the world's perfect foods, with essential proteins and fats, vitamins, minerals, fiber, etc.
And after all, the bird egg industry (including tiny back yard coops) require the enslavement, torture, and murder of billions of sentient lives per year. Calling an avocado made out of bird eggs "vegetarian" is frightening. I think it also shows why veganism as a philosophy makes more sense, as it seeks to reduce harm, rather than simply avoid meat. Many people "go vegetarian", thinking that it's a light version of veganism, something they can try out and see if they're willing to "go all the way". The problem with that is, vegetarians eat a lot of eggs and dairy, substances that are not only unnecessary and unhealthy, but require incredible amounts of pain and systemic enslavement of entire races of sentient beings. Dairy and egg production also does more damage to the planet than just about any other industry or activity. When people stop eating flesh but start eating more eggs and dairy (ie, "go vegetarian") they often (especially if they are conscious) realize fairly quickly how much MORE harm they're now doing, and realize that vegetarianism isn't a light form of veganism, it's in many ways worse in terms of how much harm they do to sentient animals, themselves, and the ecosystem/environment.
That's just my opinion on it. Maybe I'm wrong? (I'd be interested to hear from anyone on that.)
But aside from that, your photos are good! Maybe run them through an image editor and use some kind of "auto correct" or brightness feature to expose them a little more. And your instructions seem good too.
I must say that I don't miss most types of eggs, or the idea of them, but I do for some reason miss scrambled eggs on toast. They had to be done just right, though. Not brown, but not sloppy, you know?
(Not intended to single anyone out, and no offense meant to bird egg eaters - or anyone for that matter. I just feel that somebody needs to speak up for the birds, because they don't want to go through what we do to them, but they can't speak our language. A lot of people assume they don't mind, but if you investigate, they actually hate their enslavement, prefer freedom, and don't want to be killed or eaten. Birds love their families, dream, feel pain, experience fear, and are conscious sentient beings. That's not hyperbole, and if anyone is interested further, I wrote a post about birds a while ago here and general veganism here and here. Again, no offense meant, but if I don't speak out for animals being hurt, and they CAN'T speak out, who will? And if not here on the blockchain, and when eating bird eggs is mentioned, than where and when? Thanks for reading, and please don't think I'm trying to tell anyone what to do or how to feel. What I've said are what I believe to be facts and if you think I'm wrong please tell me how so I can improve my understanding.)
Have a great weekend!
I wonder if it puts your mind at ease any that I only buy humane certified eggs or from farmers markets where I can ask questions about how they raise their chickens and eggs. Probably not, but I thought that I would put that out there. This can be done completely vegan with vegan egg or bobs mill egg replacer steamed, broken up, and mixed in, and you can put the mix inside the avocado instead or spread on crackers or toast. Also, if you ever wanted to have something akin to eggs on toast, I've heard that J U S T plant-based egg, is a good scrambled egg replacer.
I will think further in the future about the way I label things, I understand how it could be misconstrued, and how the term vegetarian can sometimes come across as a misnomer when main components of recipes are animal based compared to a true vegetarian/vegan lifestyle where vegetables and legumes should be the main component. Thank you for putting your opinion out there. I like when people speak their minds. You've given me food for thought.
I need to get myself a good photo editor and to be more careful with light!
Thanks again!
Hey, thanks for reading and thinking about my comment. It wasn't really my mind I was trying to change, though. If I were to get upset every time I saw or hear about somebody hurting animals, I'd never get through a day. It happens all the time, and just about everywhere (not that frequency makes it any better). Really, I was commenting for others - humans who are currently abusing and killing other animals, and their victims. Not for myself. But thanks for thinking about my feelings, I appreciate that!
You mentioned humane eggs. I myself ate humane eggs for many years when I went vegetarian. My thinking was "I need protein, and if I don't eat flesh, I better eat eggs and breastmilk!" Then I learned that neither eggs nor breastmilk (and its products) are healthy for humans (especially adults) and lead to major health problems. I learned that humans are the only animal that collects and uses the breastmilk of other species, and that 3/4 of humans can't properly digest it after the age of 5 (only 25% of us are lactose tolerant). I also learned there is nothing (absolutely nothing at all) in them that we need for nutrients. We can get everything else from plants, without exception. Every single vitamin, mineral, fatty acid, amino acid, and trace element can be found in non-animal sources. You will hear rumours that vegans need small amounts of animal products or they eventually get sick and die, but that's been a lie going around for hundreds of years, never backed up by science. Have a look. There's nothing (not a single molecule) needed from animals, ever. We've been doing it for tradition, convenience, and taste buds.
And lastly, which got me to finally stop using ALL animal products a few years ago, was I found out that "humane eggs" don't exist. I'd been stepping up my egg game for years, and harming even more sentient animals, which was the opposite of my intention! I was horrified, but quickly made the necessary change, and now I can live with myself and my actions, but I do have regret about the years of pain and suffering I caused, ignoring my gut feeling, ignoring the please of principled intelligent humans (and suffering animals), and continued to feed into that system of animal slavery and exploitation.
If you're not sure about humane eggs, run a little search and investigate from a place of trying to find the answer (being careful not to seek to validate our current thinking/behaviour). If you'd like help, please let me know. A good place to start is asking what happens to half the birth population as babies. When a bird egg hatches, the sex of the baby bird is finally visible. Females are valued for their egg production, but what about males that grow into roosters? Notice that factory farms don't have roosters? Notice that even those trendy backyard coop operations don't have roosters? The males have to be killed shortly after hatching, and that's 50% of their entire race. Bird eggs (even from "humane" sources) come from birds we have selectively bred (not allowing Nature to have a say in hundreds of years) until they've become massive unhealthy versions of their ancestors, popping out ovulations daily instead of twice a week, leading them to an early death. Egg laying chickens have been genetically altered, as have "meat" chickens, so that they are now almost different species. Egg chickens aren't economically viable as meat, just as egg producers. When their production begins to slow (even before they reach adulthood) they're ground up and fed to the others. And yes, this is all the humane egg production. Humane to the factory farms just means giving them X amount of space in cages, instead of a slightly smaller number. It doesn't mean they live normal lives. They're slaves, bred when told, eating garbage (including their own family members), fed hormones, kept in the dark, and killed when they aren't convenient for us. Humane has little meaning to the birds.
I want to thank you for trying to do less harm, though. That shows your heart's in the right place, for sure! Maybe you just haven't heard all the truth (many haven't... either it is kept from them or they refuse to look). Also, "free range" or "humane" eggs aren't entirely as bad as the worst of the worst battery-cage factory farmed eggs. By paying a little more, you've been doing a tiny bit less harm. That's something! We just have to realize that we can do away with that other 95% of harm we're doing.
And I must admit, eggs were a hard one for me. Giving up meat was easy compared to eggs (and perhaps cheese). Scrambled on toast, or baked into cookies and other foods. Nothing replaces (yet) scrambled eggs very well for me, but I will give JUST another try (it's probably improved since I tried a few years ago). But as you mentioned, there are easy delicious ways to bake without eggs! I can have cookies and cakes again, hahah. Knowing what eggs are and how they're produced helped me a lot, though.
Again, sorry to you or anyone else who feels offended or attacked, because that's certainly not my intention. I have a way of offering to help that some people find abrupt, and I'm working on that. I hope you take the info with an open mind, and investigate when you have time. If I'm wrong about anything I'd very much like to know. I'm on a quest for the truth, and to live a life of Liberty for myself and others, no other agenda. Thanks so much for the conversation and have a great weekend.
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Thank you!
Upvoted and Reblogged, this looks delicious.
Thank youuuu! We devoured them!
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This definitely looks tasty.
Interestingly you add eggs as vegetarian. In Malaysia too it is regarded as vegetarian if it is not being fertilized.
Unless designated as a specialty egg (like balut), all eggs commercially sold in grocery stores in the US should be unfertilized. The proper term is ovo-lacto vegetarianism, which means you mainly consume veggies, but also milk and egg products occasionally 😊.
Enjoy the recipe!
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