Guacamole

Get ready for this homemade guacamole! Make it for tacos, nachos, or toast. This guacamole is good on everything.

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• 🧀 Ingredients & Substitutions
• 🥑 How To Pick Perfectly Ripe Avocados
• How to Quickly Ripen Your Avocado
• How To Cut an Avocado
• 🔪 How to Make Guacamole
• 👩‍🍳 Guacamole Variations
• 🥗 What to eat with Guacamole
• How To Store Guacamole
• Guacamole

🧀 Ingredients & Substitutions

Avocados: I have a guide above on how to pick the perfect avocado

Jalapeno: make sure to remove the seeds unless you want a really spicy guacamole

Red Onion: yellow or sweet onion would also work

Lime Juice: you can also use lemon juice if you don’t have limes

Cilantro

Salt

Red Pepper Flakes: optional, it adds a little spice.

Full ingredient list with quantities in the recipe card below

🥑 How To Pick Perfectly Ripe Avocados

1. Color: Go for avocados with dark green or almost black skin, but remember, color isn't everything.
2. Firmness: Gently squeeze the avocado. If it yields slightly, it's ripe. If it’s too firm means it's not ready, and too soft might be overripe.
3. Stem: pop off the stem. If it comes off easily and you see green underneath, it's good to go. If it's hard to remove or brown underneath, it may not be ripe.

How to Quickly Ripen Your Avocado

Avocados ripen after they're picked. If you got unripe ones, toss them in a paper bag with a ripe banana or apple. The gas from the banana or apple will speed up the ripening process.

How To Cut an Avocado

1. Wash your avocado.
2. Cut it in half by making a vertical cut all around the avocado.
3. Twist the halves to separate them.
4. Remove the pit by tapping the knife into it and twisting gently.
5. Scoop out the avocado with a spoon.

🔪 How to Make Guacamole

1. Add avocado to a bowl and smash with a fork.
2. Mix in all the other ingredients and serve immediately.
3. To store leftovers, cover the top of the guacamole with plastic wrap. You will want the plastic wrap and the guacamole to be touching to prevent oxidation and turning brown.

👩‍🍳 Guacamole Variations

Simple Guacamole: Mix together 1 smashed avocado, a pinch of salt and red pepper flakes.

Easy Guacamole: Mix together ⅓ cup of salsa and 3 smashed avocados.

🥗 What to eat with Guacamole

How To Store Guacamole

Guacamole turns brown (oxidizes) just like apples. To prevent the guacamole from turning brown, you’ll want to refrigerate it with plastic wrap pressed on top of the surface of the guacamole so no air can touch it.

If somehow the guacamole does turn brown, it’s still safe to eat, but if you don’t want to, just scoop that section or the top layer off.