Alex Guarnaschelli shares her simple seasonal avocado salad recipe

The executive chef and owner of Butter in New York City created a beautiful salad with fresh local ingredients.

first I’m gonna make a simple vinaigrette I’m gonna mix together extra virgin olive oil with regular balsamic vinegar I add a tiny pinch of sugar to the dressing just to bring out that sweet note in the balsamic then I add salt and pepper and I mix and it’s just kind of broken you know it’s not an emulsified vinaigrette very simple to make then I have some peeled and thickly sliced avocados I’m gonna now cut up a red bell pepper and I just literally square it off cutting the four corners of the pepper off and slicing up those pepper pieces and then I start to put the plate together layer the slices of pepper down i season them with salt freshly ground black pepper and another pinch of sugar coat that with about half of the balsamic and olive oil mixture just to kind of let that soak into the peppers then I layer on top just a pieces of avocado and you can kind of intersperse them which is fun you know a little bit of avocado here some pepper there and then finish by just sprinkling it with the orange sections and the juice from the oranges [Music]