Vadim is our guacamole expert and has perfected his recipe. Its better than any restaurant guacamole. We make tons of this when avocados are cheap. Its packed with fresh, healthy ingredients. This is sure to be a crowd pleaser!
Cost to Make: $5 to $7 (depending on avocado prices)
Servings: makes 4 cups
Guacamole Recipe Ingredients:
3 medium ripe avocados
2 medium tomatoes, diced
1 small onion, finely chopped
2 to 3 tablespoons fresh cilantro, finely chopped
1 tablespoon lemon juice, plus more to taste
Salt and Pepper to taste
How to make Guacamole:
1. Cut avocados in half lengthwise, remove pits, scrape the flesh of the avocado out with a spoon. Place in a medium bowl with a flat bottom and mash avocados with a potato masher.
2. Add the rest of the ingredients to the bowl (tomatoes, onion, cilantro, lemon juice) Mix well and add salt and pepper plus more lemon juice if desired.
3. Serve with tortilla chips. MMMMM!!! Our favorite snack.
Notes on avocados:
-Select avocados that are slightly soft to the touch; Don’t buy avocados that are rock hard or ones that feel like applesauce would ooze out.
-If you are not going to make them right away, you can keep the firmer ones on the counters to ripen.
-If they are just right and you aren’t going to make them for a couple of days, put them in a paper bag and place in the fridge.
To keep your guacamole from browning too quickly, insert the pit from the avocado in to the finish product before refrigerating.
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I LOVE GUACAMOLE! Thanks for sharing Vadim’s tried and true recipe.
this dip is the bomb, i’ve made it a couple times, fedor loves it!
sounds a lot simpler than my recipe. will deffinatly need to try yours out!
Hope you enjoy it as much as we do
Amazing taste
I really like this version of guacamole. If you want Cali style, sub the lemon with lime and add a dash of cayenne pepper and your favorite finely chopped chilis to suit your heat level. We make this dip into a spread for turkey, swiss and spinach wraps. It’s amazing!
Those are some great tips! We are huge guacamole people
Using it as a spread like you mentioned sounds great. Thanks Whitney!
I lived in Mexico for a year and never saw a lemon. Lime is the ticket. Try it in the guacamole, but great squeezed in a bowl of chicken soup too. Just moved to Ukraine in October. Trying to learn the language. Great to see some recipes that I can completely understand. keep up the good work.
We will try that. We have been using lime in guacamole but not salsa. Sounds like lime will make it more authentic.
Very good recipe. Thank you. I would recommend to substitude onion for red onion and lemon juice for lime juice. Also add some halapeno or some hot sauce to make it more authentic.
Sounds good! Thanks Charlie!
you should add jalepeno pure or cut up a small amount. it adds some nice spice and the avocado really soothes at the same time. mmm so good! P.S. my advice is to slightly mash the avocados with a fork leaving a few chunky pieces seems to taste so much better!