Recipe by Stefano Baiocco: Avocado Cannelloni
For the avocado
- 1 ripe avocado, avocado oil
Procedure
Remove the outer skin from the avocado. Using a vegetable peeler, cut the fruit into thin slices (use only the green outer part). Place them on a sheet of baking paper and brush them gently with avocado oil
For the goat's cheese cream
- 1 Toma della Valle Belbo cheese, approx. 250 g
- 50 ml goat's milk
Procedure
Pass the cheese through a sieve and whip lightly with a whisk, trying to aerate the cream. Add goat's milk if necessary. Place the cream in a piping bag.
For the tomato gazpacho
- 800 g datterini tomatoes
- 80 g red peppers
- 60 g green celery stalks
- 60 g red onion
- 60 g cucumbers
- 1 bunch basil
- 100 g ice
- 16 g ginger
- 15 ml Casaliva monocultivar extra virgin olive oil
- 1.5 g xanthan gum
- 18 g Maldon salt
- 6 g ground white pepper
Procedure
Marinate all the ingredients (except the xanthan gum) cut into small cubes for 12 hours. Pass them through a vegetable mill and then through a fine sieve. At this point, add the xanthan gum and mix it into the soup with a whisk, very gently without incorporating air and without leaving any lumps.
For the macadamia nuts
Lightly toast the nuts and grate them with a microplane.
For the coriander oil
- 250 ml sunflower oil
- 70 g fresh coriander leaves
- 30 g parsley leaves
- 10 g toasted coriander seeds
Procedure
Blanch the herbs for 5 seconds in water and plunge them into ice. Blend the oil with the herbs and seeds in a Thermomix for 10 minutes at 50°C. Strain and cool.
Herbs
- Lobelia flowers (Lobelia erinus)
- Marigold flowers (Tagetes patula)
Dish composition
Fill the avocado slices with the goat cream and, with the help of paper, roll them up to form a cannelloni. Leave in the refrigerator.
Place the gazpacho in the center of a bowl, then finish with the coriander oil, flowers, and Macadamia nuts.

The photograph by Stefano Baiocco is of Lido Vannucchi
The cover photograph is by Valentino Ruffato