There’s nothing like homemade guacamole using fresh ingredients. This is way better than buying anything already made from the store. Perfect for nachos, tacos and all kinds of things. It even tastes good on hamburgers. 🙂
Ingredients:
- 1 large or 2 small avocados *
- 1/2 tsp kosher salt
- 1 Tbs lime juice
- 1 large roma tomato
- 4 green onions
- 4 Serrano chili peppers
- 1 small glove garlic (about 1/4 tsp finely minced garlic)
Directions:
- Peel the avocado(s) and place into a medium size mixing bowl. The video shows you a very quick and simple method for doing this (again with the chef’s knife).
- Mince the garlic and add to the bowl, along with the salt and lime juice.
- Either mash the contents of the bowl with a potato masher or use a food processor until the mixture is creamy. Don’t do it the way I did it in the video unless you don’t have either of those things.
- Cut up the green onions and tomatoes and mince your Serrano peppers (chef’s knife – see video).
- Add the vegetables to the avocado paste and fold gently using a spatula.
*Avocados are ripe enough to use for guacamole when they’re soft enough to dent with a thumb without using much pressure. You can let them sit on your kitchen counter top for a few days if you can’t find any at the store that are ready to mash.
*Anything you’re not going to eat should be frozen because this stuff goes bad pretty quickly. Even if you stick it in the fridge right away, it will start to turn brown sometimes within only a few hours. I usually divide what I’m not going to immediately eat into small portions that I freeze in Ziploc bags.
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