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The Best Guacamole Recipe
When you’re eating fresh guacamole, it’s a necessity to have Homemade Corn Tortilla Chips and Restaurant Style Salsa on the side or go all out with our Seven Layer Dip. This is the holy trifecta, and we think it’s important to have all three. While we’re here, we’ll point you in the direction of our Best Taco Recipes, including our Carne Asada Tacos and Chicken Tinga Tacos if you’re in need of a way to eat all of that delicious guacamole.
Ingredients For Our Homemade Guacamole Recipe
Fresh garlic cloves
Freshly ground black peppercorn
Cilantro leaves
Ripe avocados
Fresh jalapeño peppers
Red onion, finely minced
Fresh squeezed lime juice
Coarse salt
How Do You Make Guacamole?
Place the avocados in a medium bowl. Using a fork, smash the avocados to your preference. You can also use a molcajete, a traditional Mexican mortar and pestle, to smash your avocados.
Stir in the garlic, pepper, jalapeño, onion, cilantro, lime juice, and salt until incorporated.
Serve with tortilla chips.
How to Store + Tips
Our guacamole recipe serves four as it is written—or one, if you’re a true guac lover like we are. Feel free to double, triple or even quadruple it.
Use a light touch when folding the avocado into the rest of the ingredients, and taste as you go. We like our guacamole with a slightly chunky texture.
If you really need to make it ahead, be aware that the color may begin to dull from its bright brilliant green and that jalapeño’s heat will increase and spread the longer the dip sits. In other words, the longer you let the finished guacamole sit, the spicier it will be.
How to keep guacamole from turning brown: You can delay the browning of the avocado somewhat by laying lime slices on top of the guacamole—when you’re ready to serve, just remove the lime slices and give the dip a little stir.
Leftovers, if there are any, will last 3-4 days, and in the freezer for 3 months.
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