This
weekend my friend Lina & I decided to make something we certainly like to
eat, but never really thought about cooking it ourselves the whole way through
- Why, when everything stands in front of your nose on the supermarket shelves,
right? But no, we accepted the challenge and made it happen: The DIY
Avocado-Dip, Guacamole.
The original recipe was in German, which first needed
to be translated because my friend only knows English:
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| Recipe for traditional Mexican Guacamole |
Ingredients
- 2
very ripe avocados
- 1 big or 2 small limes
- 1 little red onion
- 2 – 3 cloves of garlic
- salt, pepper and chili-spices
- 1 big or 2 small limes
- 1 little red onion
- 2 – 3 cloves of garlic
- salt, pepper and chili-spices
- (2
vine tomatoes)
- (1
chili-pepper)
- (parsley / coriander)
- (2 tablespoons of yogurt)
- (parsley / coriander)
- (2 tablespoons of yogurt)
Our Tip:
When
buying ingredients for something you’re about to cook for the first time, you
better precisely read what’s required (in our case we didn’t pay much attention
to the very ripe avocados …).
How it’s done:
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| What it should look like |
- Peel the onion and the garlic cloves, chop them as small as possible and give the pieces in a medium-sized bowl. If you like it spicy, you can cut a jalapeño or chili-pepper and add it to the mix, but it’s not a must.
- Now halve the ripe avocados, extract the core with a spoon and scrap or scoop out all the green flesh (any brown spots removed previously).
- Mash the flesh of the avocado into the bowl and mix it with
the onion and garlic pieces till it forms a creamy mass. Then instantly squeeze the lime juice over it, so that the avocado paste doesn’t get brown. - Season the paste with salt, pepper, chili-spices and taste it. The DIY Guacamole is finished!
- Serve it in a small bowl and garnish it with little leaves of parsley or coriander and a small slice of tomato.
We still stuck to the recipe and added all the
spices except the chili-pepper, because it already had an intense smell and we were "sort-of-afraid" of the taste after that one chili :). In addition we also poured a little extra lime juice over it and
yogurt, threw in some tomatoes, gave it another spin in the blender and voila …
… We made a smoothie. Cheers!
2 comments:
Hi Lara,
you're always better off creating your own guacamole. The ones you get in the markets are always dearer, fatty, and taste sort of industrial in comparison to every homemade variation. Homemade guacamole is simply not junk food (other than bought stuff).
By the way, you don't even need yogurt. As a traveler, I know from experience that dairy brings about the necessity of a fridge. All other guacamole ingredients don't get sour that fast.
Try this one, I used it to get rid of the bacon around my hips. It's also a traditional Mexican recipe.
2 green tomatoes
1 ripe avocado
1 clove of garlic
1/2 a bulb of onion
hot pepper (1-3 pieces)
coriander
a bit of water (to ease the blending)
and salt of course
Just try it: No fat at all, super-spicy, and it tastes delicious; It is always good company for a lazy weekend in front of the telly
See you
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