Conquered the Green Dip!

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:

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

- (2 vine tomatoes)

- (1 chili-pepper)
- (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:

What it should look like

1. 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.
2. 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).
3. 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.
4. Season the paste with salt, pepper, chili-spices and taste it. The DIY Guacamole is finished!
5. Serve it in a small bowl and garnish it with little leaves of parsley or coriander and a small slice of tomato.

Everything went fine until step 3: The avocado was obviously not as ripe as it should have been and refused to get mashed. “Find the blender!”

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!