AVOCADO WITH SOY-LIME VINAIGRETTE

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State Bird Provisions on Fillmore Street in San Francisco is the brainchild of a wife-and-husband team of native Californians, Nicole Krasinski and Stuart Brioza. At the restaurant, food is brought out on carts, as it is in dim-sum parlors. Although the concept is familiar to everyone at this point, these are laden not with the mostly brown and steamed food common to dim-sum places but with gorgeous, far-out, inventively served creations. Many of their dishes were too complicated for me to deal with. This dish, though, is representative of the restaurant's food, highly flavored, unusual, delicious.

Provided by Mark Bittman

Categories     easy, appetizer

Time 35m

Yield 2 to 4 servings

Number Of Ingredients 11

1/2 cup lime juice
1/2 cup dark soy sauce (or usukuchi, white soy sauce, if you have it)
1 small clove garlic, minced
1/2 teaspoon minced ginger
2 3-inch pieces kombu (kelp), wiped with a damp rag
1/2 cup bonito flakes
1 cup grapeseed oil
2 ripe avocados
Coarse salt
Togarashi or black pepper
Toasted sesame seeds

Steps:

  • Combine the first 6 ingredients in a bowl; let sit as little as a half-hour and up to 2 hours; strain, pressing to extract as much liquid as possible. Whisk in the grapeseed oil to make a vinaigrette.
  • Peel, pit and slice the avocados; arrange them on 2 or 4 plates; dress to taste. Sprinkle with salt, togarashi or pepper and toasted sesame seeds, and serve.

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