If you want to impress that blonde Swedish exchange student you have just picked up outside Khorixas, hide the sausage and rather make this salad.

You need: (for 6 portions)

• 1 avocado, peeled and sliced
• 1 x 425 g tin baby apples with stems, or any other tinned fruit such as mangoes and apricots, drained
• 4 tablespoons olive oil
• 4 tablespoons lemon juice
• ¼ teaspoon mustard powder
• salt and black pepper to taste

Get cracking:

• Arrange the avocado and fruit on a plate.
• Mix the olive oil, lemon juice, mustard powder and salt in a cup and pour over the salad.
• Sprinkle with freshly-ground black pepper and serve.

HINT:

• Avocados will keep longer on safari if they are bought before completely ripe.
• If it doesn’t ripen quickly enough to your liking, store it in a brown paper bag to speed up the ripening.