Chocolate Pudding

One of my biggest pet peeves, is when people eat anything as long as it's labeled "non-fat" as an attempt to be healthy.  I'm not a nutritionist, but I have done research, and it is becoming more and more well known that good fat is an important part of our daily diet, particularly fat that comes from dairy products, avocado, and oils such as olive oil and coconut oil.  In fact, certain fats, such as the fat found in avocados and coconut oil, actually helps your body burn more fat.  Also loaded with other nutrients, avocados should be a common part of your diet.  I have no problem eating an entire avocado in one sitting or devouring an entire bowl of guacamole.  Not everyone likes avocado, however, I have found the utmost enjoyable way to consume this healthy fat.  And it involves chocolate.

I was skeptical at first.  I had heard rumor of people using avocados as the base for pudding, which sounded to me like a waste of good chocolate and a waste of good avocado.  But I decided to give it a try...

Ingredients:
4 avocados
3 Tbsp unsweetened baking cocoa
1/4 cup agave nectar (less, depending on how sweet you want your pudding)
1 Tsp vanilla extract

Combine all of the ingredients in a bowl, and use an electric mixer (or a food processor if you have one) to beat it until smooth.  It might take a while to get all of the lumps out.  Beat until all of the lumps are gone.  It is ready for immediate consumption, but will store in a sealed container in the fridge for several days (it's been 3 days and I still have some in the fridge, and it's just as good as it was on the first day). I served mine in a wine glass with some whipped cream on top. Don't be afraid of the fat content in this dessert - it's all good fat!  The pudding is sweet but still very low on the glycemic index, and there is less than 1g of sugar per serving in most store bought whipped cream.

So what did this score on our taste testing scale?  I didn't tell David what was in t
he pudding when I made him try it, but he was suspicious.  As he ate the pudding, I could tell that he was torn.  Something inside of him knew he shouldn't like it, but his reaction was "it tastes confusing!"  He swore he could taste something "different" but he couldn't tell me what it was.  He said it was good, just "confusing."  I translate this into he liked it, but knew it was healthy, so he had to pretend he didn't like it.  When I gave some to Nate, his eyes got wide and he said "wow, that's really good!  What's in it?"  He couldn't believe it when I told him it was made with avocado.  His next sentence was "that's really good, you should give some to David and not tell him what it's made out of."  We still didn't get David's full approval, so we will rank this recipe as "Delicious."