Guacamole — Food.Love.Family

Oct 1

Oct 1 Guacamole

Basics, Nibbles and Snacks, Sides, Under 5g Carbs

I remember the first time I had guacamole about age ten.

We were on a family camping holiday with my uncle and aunty from Gisborne. They were always up with the latest food trend and they bought with them avocados and corn chips (which also may have been my first corn chip too). Each night they whipped up batches of guacamole and we sat around the campfire gobbling up this delicious green goop and thinking ‘where have you been all my life?’. These days I serve with vegetable crudités and it works really well as pre-dinner nibbles.

This is a basic guacamole recipe but you can make many variations. You can add chili flakes, or chopped herbs like coriander, mint or parsley, use lime instead of lemon, add feta or chopped tomatoes or both, probably even yummy with chopped jalapeños too.

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INGREDIENTS

1 ripe avocado

1 clove garlic, crushed

1 lemon, juice and zest

1/2 teaspoon of salt & pepper

METHOD

Cut avocado in half and twist off the stone. Remove the stone and use a spoon to scoop out all the flesh into a bowl. Add crushed garlic, lemon zest (optional) and juice.

Mash with a fork and add salt & pepper to taste.

Transfer into a serving bowl.

Serve with vegetable crudités.