Guacamole
This is not a beautiful picture, but it’s the picture I have. This is our go-to guacamole recipe nowadays, and when Maya comes home from a long day of work and finds me making this, her eyes light up. Also she always requests it for an appetizer at family parties. It’s lime foreword and delicious. We originally found the recipe buried in a fajita recipe, here, and because of that when I want to find the recipe in my binder, I have to look under beef. Stupid.
Guacamole
Ingredients
- 2 large or 3 regular avocados
- Juice from 2 limes. Have another lime around just in case.
- 3 Tbsp finely chopped red onion
- 3 Tbsp finely chopped fresh cilantro
- 1/2 tsp crushed red pepper flakes
- Kosher salt, to taste
Directions
In a bowl, smash together the first 5 ingredients, then add salt to taste. The lime does a pretty good job of keeping it from turning brown. Eat as a dip with veggies, get all fancy and pipe into hollowed out little cherry tomatoes, add to tacos or fajitas, or enjoy with your favorite chips. Super easy, super good.
10 Comments
StephLove
It’s nice to have a recipe that reliably makes people in your family happy.
J
Yes, it feels like a win for sure!
Margaret
My John makes a great guac too; he puts tomatoes in it but no cilantro. He’s one of those people for whom cilantro tastes like soap.
J
I like diced tomatoes in my guacamole too, and sometimes I will add them. Thankfully none of us have the soapy cilantro gene!
PocoBrat
My eyes lit up when the page loaded, because I could see the onions and cilantro and by the time I saw “lime-forward” I was a goner.
I might do garlic and tomatoes sometimes too, but never green peas (à la Obama)!
J
I would totally throw peas in there, but not if Maya were eating it, she would rebel.
M
My husband loves guacamole; I’ll have to remember this recipe. I like my avocados in chunks. So I just put big chunks of avocado on store-bought fresh salsa.
Speaking of searching, I just Googled your blog yesterday on the way home from Big Bear — for your pickled onion recipe. I typed onto Google “jellyjules pickled onion” and found it! Awesome!
J
LOL, I love the way you found your way back, that’s awesome!
San
Thanks for sharing this recipe! I love guac but don’t make it very often – because I am just not good at using the avocado at the “right time”. What’s your secret on finding/getting avocados that have the perfect ripeness for this recipe?
J
A lot of it is luck for me, I’m sorry to say. They have to feel soft but not too soft, and if the little stem bit comes out easily, that is supposed to mean they are ripe as well. But sometimes there aren’t any that are ripe, or they are all too ripe, which is frustrating.