One of my absolute favorite things is guacamole and chips. I love my guacamole simple but it MUST have a few key ingredients. They are: avocados, salt, pepper, and lemon juice. Once I purchase avocados I am guaranteed to have the rest of the ingredients at home. It is a simple dish, but it is a perfect dish!
How to start? Choose your avocados! Avocados should be slightly soft when you squeeze them. Too soft and they are likely going bad and brown inside. If it is too firm, you won’t be able to mash the avocado with a fork, which is the goal.
Once you get home, cut the avocado in half and scoop out all of the insides into a dish. Make sure to scrape the skin to get every last drop! Remove the pit from the dish. Compost the pit and skin. Next add a little bit of lemon juice and whip it into the avocado. Then add some pepper and salt (I prefer fresh cracked pepper and fresh cracked sea salt the best). Continue to add lemon juice, pepper and salt to taste. I prefer my guacamole to have a very distinct salty taste.
Put into a fun fiesta bowl and serve with your favorite side of chips! I think sometime soon I am going to try my hand at chips… I will post if/when that day comes.
What is better than the perfect guacamole? LOTS of the perfect guacamole!! Tuesday I was shopping for dinner when I saw 6 avocados on the “old” produce card for .99! They were a bit soft and some did have brown spots inside but it was a super find! I just scooped out the brown bits and voila! Perfect guacamole!
Holy Moly Guacamole!!
Brooke
April 22, 2010
Hey it’s Brooke from our skinny’s mama’s group (that’s how a I stumbled across your blog.) I love this post because it’s about one of my favorite things and guacamole! Have you ever tried adding fresh cilantro? Soooo yum!
yellowkitchencook
April 22, 2010
That’s so weird! I do love it with cilantro but for some reason I never buy it when I buy avocados! It’s also yummy if you add some diced tomatoes!