Friday, September 23, 2011

Guacamole

I am always looking for a good guacamole recipe... always.  I LOVE guacamole!
I bought a pack of 5 of the giant avocados from the store, they were real soft so they were on clearance and I thought, perfect, I'll make guacamole and just freeze some of it.
So, I bought the 5 pack.  One of them was no good but the other 4 were ready to go.  I made up this recipe as I went along.  I looked at a few recipes for inspiration and then went through my kitchen and used what I had.  Some of the greatest recipes come from this kind of cooking... random.
Here's what came together for me:

4 large very ripe avocados
1/2 celery stalk, chopped into tiny pieces
4 oz fire roasted diced green chiles (I used Trader Joe's)
1-1/2 tsp dried cilantro ( I didn't think I had any, but then found it hiding in the very back of my spice cabinet... whew!)
juice of 1/2 a lime
3 tsp powdered garlic
1-1/2 TBSP minced onion
1-1/4 tsp cumin

Mash it all together.  Add more or less of the spices according to your taste.


The flavor gets better as it sits.  When I first tried it I felt like there was too much lime and it overpowered things but then after it sat overnight, I thought the flavor was excellent.

*I used celery for the crunch factor that onion would have given it.  I can't eat raw onion, that's why I decided to put the celery in, but it would probably be good (for anyone else but me) with onion instead.

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