Green Garlic Scrambled Eggs with Sliced Avocado

Total time: 10 minutes
     Green garlic looks like a green onion or very small leek and has a wonderful, mild garlic flavor.  Use it all, including the green tops. The eggs should be removed slightly underdone: the residual heat will finish cooking the eggs before you get your fork into them and they will stay more tender and creamy.

 Ingredients:

• 1/2 avocado, 100gr, 3.5oz
• 3 eggs, 195gr, 6.9oz
• 2 - 3 green garlic, 36gr, 1.3oz
• 2 tbs crème fraiche or Greek yogurt, 37.5gr, 1.3oz
• 1 tsp cold, hard butter, 5gr, .17oz
• 2 tsp butter - any temperature, 9.5gr, .33oz
• salt and pepper to taste

 Instructions:

• Cut the stem ends off the green garlic and remove the outer layer.
• Slice about 1/8" (.3cm) thick including green tops.
• Cut avocado, remove pit.  Remove half from shell and slice.  Divide and arrange on plates.
• In medium nonstick skillet melt the 2 tsp of butter over medium heat.  Add green garlic and sauté just until starting to come apart, about 3 minutes.  They should keep a bit of crunch. 
• In medium bowl whisk eggs. 
• Add yogurt, salt, pepper and whisk. 
• With a knife cut the 1 tsp of cold butter into tiny pieces and add to eggs.  This will melt as the eggs cook making them really creamy.
• Add the eggs to the green garlic in the pan and with a spatula gently stir the eggs, mixing in the green garlic. 
• When the eggs are almost, but not quite, set, divide them and put on plates. 
• Serve immediately. 

Note:  To store the avocado, wrap it in cling film, making certain that the cut surfaces touches the film, refrigerate)

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Nutrition Information               Recipe serves 2            Entire Recipe / per serving Calories:   606 / 303 Total Carbohydrates:   14 / 7           Dietary Fiber:   7 / 3.5 Total Fat:   50 / 25          Saturated Fat:   18 / 9 Cholesterol:   864 / 432 Protein:   63 / 31.5 Calcium:   192 / 96 Sodium:    371 / 185.5

General Technical Details and Disclaimer:

Measurements are actual measurements used for calculation. If there are no values the nutritional numbers were simply too small.

I try to be accurate, but I do not guarantee it.  I use 'grams' as the unit of weight; with an approximate conversion to ounces.

My information comes from my own digital, computerized scale and the USDA Nutrient Data Library: http://ndb.nal.usda.gov/