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Grilled Avocado, Tomato, Red Onion Salad

Recipe courtesy Michael Chiarello

Prep Time:: 20 min
Inactive Prep Time:: hr min
Cook Time:: 1 min

Level:: Easy

Serves:: 5 servings

Ingredients

10 tomatoes, quartered
4 avocados, peeled, halved, and pitted
Extra-virgin olive oil, for drizzling
1 red onion, sliced
1/2 lemon
1 cup pesto sauce
1/2 cup pine nuts
Parmiggiano-Reggiano

Directions

Preheat a grill over medium heat.
Cover a large tray with tomato quarters, and set aside.

Place avocado halves in a bowl and drizzle with olive oil. Place each half on a hot open

Grilled Avocado, Tomato, Red Onion Salad

Recipe courtesy Michael Chiarello

grill for about 30 to 45 seconds. Remove and place on top of the tomatoes arranged on
tray. Drizzle with olive oil again.

In another bowl, cover the red onion slices with the juice from the lemon half and olive
oil. Place onions in the empty avocado pit holes. Cover with the lemon/olive oil mix.
Then, top with pesto, distributing generously on all sides. Sprinkle pine nuts and cheese
on top, to taste.

Printed from FoodNetwork.com on 09/29/2008