Over the course of six sessions during the four-day festival, foodies at our stand indulged in exciting new avocado recipes, while learning about their favourite superfood.
It was a great opportunity for us to give our avocado-loving audience tips on how to pick the right avocado and how to correctly store them at various stages of ripeness.
Well-known New Zealand celebrity chef and nutritionist, Nadia Lim joined us on the Saturday and Sunday to interact with visitors to our stand and demonstrate three terrific avocado recipes - avocado bliss balls, avocado chocolate mousse and avocado pina colada smoothies.
Nadia told her audiences about her love of avocados, her favourite ways to eat them or feed them to her seven-month-old baby Bodhi, and her key avocado ripening and storing tips.
Our recipes and samples were trendy, tasty, simple and something we wanted people to talk about.
Tasters enjoyed avocado chocolate mousse, avocado crème fraiche filled tomatoes, avocado on toast with feta, salmon or tomatoes, avocado smoothies and avocado bliss balls.
But most exciting of all was our new avocado ice cream, an absolutely delicious blend of creamy avocado with icy yumminess. The recipe is now on our website - you'll have to try it.
We had a lot of support from our loyal Friends of NZ avocados - Vogels, NZ King Salmon, RealFoods/PureHarvest, Beekist, Tatua, Whittakers and Breville.
We work closely with these friends of avocado, marrying their product with our wonderful avocado, to create food tastes that people loved and kept coming back for more.
Taste of Auckland is the largest food and wine festival in New Zealand and is held during the main part of the avocado season, so it's perfect for promoting our avocados.
This was our third year at Taste and it was a great success.
We received incredibly positive feedback from guests who loved our avocado samples and showed a real interest in the industry.
- For more images from the event check out our Facebook page www.facebook.com/nzavocado and for the recipes we shared check out our website www.nzavocado.co.nz/online/recipes.csn