How to make homemade guacamole
How to make homemade guacamole
Stop making excuses and make your own guacamole (a preparation whose weight loss benefits make it on the list of the best foods to burn fat). Making it yourself is so easy that, as soon as you prepare it, you will wonder why you have been buying it for so long …
Guacamole, ingredients
Guacamole, ingredients
For 4 people, you need:
2 ripe avocados
1 small onion
1 tomato
1 green pepper (optional)
Coriander
Salt
Black pepper
1 lemon
½ clove of garlic (optional)
Olive oil.
Step One: Empty the Avocado
Step One: Empty the Avocado
With the help of a knife, remove the pit from the avocados (afterwards, make sure they are ripe but firm and of a homogeneous color), peel them and chop the pulp in a work bowl.
Second step: Crush and drizzle with lemon juice
Second step: Crush and drizzle with lemon juice
Crush the resulting pulp by mashing it with a fork until you get a creamy paste. And sprinkle it with lemon juice so it doesn't rust.
Third step: Add the rest of the ingredients
Third step: Add the rest of the ingredients
Once crushed, add the chopped onion and tomato (and if you wish, green pepper; the traditional recipe does not take).
Step Four: Mix and Dress
Step Four: Mix and Dress
Then mix everything well or blend with a mixer if you want a much finer texture. Season with salt, a thread of olive oil, a few leaves of chopped coriander, the crushed garlic (if you like it with garlic) and a little more squeezed lemon juice.
Step Five: Plate and Serve
Step Five: Plate and Serve
Once you have it well mixed, whether you have finely shredded it or left it more whole (traditional style), put it in a bowl and serve it with nachos, toasted corn tortilla triangles, or another accompaniment.
Other garnishes
Other garnishes
The classic accompaniment to guacamole is nachos, but for some time it has been competing with crudités, which is a much lighter accompaniment. You just have to take cucumber, carrot, peppers, zucchini … and cut them into sticks or thin slices with the help of a kitchen mandolin.
Other presentations
Other presentations
You can also choose to leave the guacamole in cubes without crushing, mix it diced tomato and onion, and plate it with a timbale as if it were a tartar. We have done this with the guacamole in this way. We have added some baby beans to the mix. And we have topped it with some arugula leaves. Fancy it, right?
To make this delicious guacamole you don't need more than 10 minutes.
Ingredients of a guacamole
(for 4 people)
- 2 ripe avocados
- 1 small onion
- 1 tomato
- 1 green bell pepper (optional)
- Coriander
- Salt
- Black pepper
- 1 lemon
- ½ clove of garlic (optional)
- Olive oil
How to make guacamole step by step
- Remove the pit from the avocado, peel it and chop the pulp.
- With a fork, mash the pulp and sprinkle it with lemon juice.
- Add the chopped onion, tomato and pepper.
- Mix well and season with oil, salt, coriander, garlic and lemon.
- Present it in a bowl accompanied with nachos or crudités.
Other versions, accompaniments, uses …
- It is also very good with cheese spread instead of tomato and green pepper.
- In addition to nachos, it is very tasty with crudités or with toasts, bread sticks …
- Aside from as a snack, use it to make sandwiches, fill fajitas, or dip salads.
