Great Gavacho Guacamole
"Back in the day when I cooked for a living, I used to make salsa and guacamole at least once a week. I was made an honorary Mexican by my Latino cooks and the hotel maids. They all requested me to make the guacamole for any Mexican style food function we had going on. Some of the ingredient quantities can be changed to taste and you can add more heat to it if you feel it's necessary. I don't like it to spicy. I often find that people cover their food in hot sauce or spicy peppers to cover up bad cooking. I'm a purist at heart and I enjoy the taste of the food, and don't see it a simple delivery system for hot sauce and peppers."
photo by ROV Chef
- Ready In:
- 20mins
- Ingredients:
- 9
- Yields:
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4 cups
- Serves:
- 6-8
ingredients
- 8 medium avocados, med-large diced
- 1 large red onion, med-large diced
- 1 bunch cilantro
- 14.79 ml kosher salt
- 7.39 ml garlic powder
- 7.39 ml ground cumin
- 7.39 ml chili powder
- 2.46 ml smoked paprika
- 8 limes
directions
- After you cut the onion, put it in a mixing bowl and cover with all of the salt.
- After all the other ingredients are prepped, add the cilantro and half the diced avocados to the bowl of onions.
- Add the spices and mix well with a potato masher.
- Add the rest of the diced avocados and stir gently with a wooden spoon, careful to not smash up the remaining cubed of avocado.
- Start juicing the limes with a citrus reamer over the bowl and stir juice inches.
- Taste the guacamole after each lime is juiced. Feel free to stop adding lime juice if the flavor is where you like it. I like mine with a nice fresh kick of lime to brighten things up.
- Add any additional seasoning now if you think it needs it.
- When test tasting, make sure you use the same chips to test with that you will dip in the guacamole. If it's not going on chips, test with a spoon, otherwise the salt will be off.
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Reviews
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Great guacamole. I too omitted the cilantro and halved the salt. The spices were a great addition. -
Great Guacamole, I did not have cilantro and don't really like it so I left it out and added a jalapeno pepper chopped fine instead. I juice about 4 limes and that was plenty for me. Thank you for this delicious recipe, I love guacomle.
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Great Guacamole, I did not have cilantro and don't really like it so I left it out and added a jalapeno pepper chopped fine instead. I juice about 4 limes and that was plenty for me. Thank you for this delicious recipe, I love guacomle.
RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
ROV Chef
Kennewick, WA
<p>I used to cook professionally, but got out of the business because it is a soul crushing, low paying job. If you want to hate cooking, run a hotel kitchen. Now that I don't have to do it for a paycheck, I cook for my friends and family as much as possible. I enjoy making everything from BBQ to Bur Blanc. I love mixing chocolate with spicy ingredients. I am rather new to baking, (only a few years) but I really love it and try to bake whenever I get a chance. I work offshore in the Gulf and I always sneak down to the galley to make stuff for the guys. I'm a huge fan of Alton Brown. I think the guy is a genius. I have tried so many of his recipes, and they all rock. Since finding this website and having a public place to post my recipes for others to review, I have become more conscientious about writing my kitchen experiments down. I still have yet to get my whole wheat pizza dough to paper, but I promise, it's on it's way. My passion for cooking has increased 10 fold since I left the biz, and I plan to keep putting new recipes here and trying my hand at new stuff. <br /><img src="http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b399/susied214/permanent%20collection/Adopted1smp.jpg" border="0" alt="Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket" /></p>
