Baked avocado


Ingredients
For two helpings:

1 very large or two fairly smll avocados, ripe and reasonably soft.
ounce and a half (50g) of margarine, or butter if yor careful
2 cloves garlic
8 oz (225g) firm mushrooms
1 lb ripe tomatoes
45g (1 1/2oz) fresh breadcrumbs (1 thick slice off a loaf)
30g (1oz) cheddar cheese, grated
60g (2oz) sunflower seeds
Too much Ground pepper
Method
Preheat the oven to gas mark 5, 160 degrees celsuis

Heat the margarine and very gently fry the mushrooms and garlic until much reduced and softened. Add the quartered tomatoes (peeled if you can be bothered) and cook gently until the tomatoes mush down and have lost much of their juice - about ten minutes in total. Add lots of pepper.

Peel, halve and destone the avocado(es). Place hole side up in the dish, and sprea d the tomato and mushroom mix all round. Mix together the bread and seeds and cheese and srinkle over the dish, pressing down gently

Bake in the oven for fifteen minutes. If you overbake it, the avocado will go mushy .If the topping is not very appatesing, pop it under a hot grill to brown it off a little.