Avocado Fries? Really?

When I saw the recipes for baked or fried avocado fries on Pinterest, I thought to myself, yeah right. They must have some sort of special machine to make those with. It would be terribly hard, messy and yuck. No thanks. Ideally, it sounded good but imagining the process was enough for me to keep looking. As many of you Pinterest users know, things get flashed before you quite often. Even if you aren't interested in them. As goes for the story of the avocado fries. My new favorite recipe. My gosh, and so easy to make you would not believe! The basic recipe is here but I made mine quite differently.

In one bowl I beat 2 eggs with a little bit of milk. One recipe calls for heavy cream. I would have used that if I'd had it on hand. In another bowl I mixed corn meal, flax meal, smoked paprika, Old Bay seasoning and salt and pepper.

Cut and slice the avocado into spears. They don't need to be perfect and I actually preferred the smaller bits. Dip and dip. Wet mixture to dry mixture and lay onto a foil covered sheet pan (I sprayed mine with cooking spray). Bake in the oven for 10 minutes at 400 degrees. Turn them over, heat the oven up to 450 degrees and bake for 10 more minutes. What you have in the end is magical. The slices stay in tact, have a delicious crust and are just delightful. Far from what I was imagining would happen if I attempted to bake avocado.

To accompany my fries, I mixed up some cilantro with mayonnaise and lemon juice. I also saved a slice of lemon to squeeze over the fries. Serious yum.