This quick and easy recipe makes a delicious spread for toast, crackers, or flatbread, or as a dip for sticks of celery or cucumber. Make it just before serving to make sure it keeps its green colour, using soft, ripe avocadoes. The skin should peel easily and the flesh will be easy to mash.

Ingredients:
1 large or 2 small ripe avocadoes, peeled and pitted
1/4 of a small onion, grated

the juice of 1/2 a lemon
a sprig of parsley, finely chopped

Method:
Mash the avocadoes with a fork. Add all of the other ingredients, and mix well with the fork.

Serve immediately with hot pitta breads and olives.