The original guacamole sauce has recently begun to gain popularity in Russia. It usually appears in dishes offered by Mexican restaurants. But if desired, such a sauce can be prepared at home yourself.
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History reference
This avocado sauce is a soft, homogeneous mass. It is used as an additive to various dishes and as a snack.
The dish appeared in the Aztecs living in Mexico. There is a legend that they received a recipe for snacks from the god of science and art. His taste greatly impressed the colonialists who came to South America, and as a result, the recipe was borrowed from the Aztecs in order to begin to spread throughout the continent, and then around the world.
In the process, the recipe was slightly changed taking into account the presence of the necessary ingredients in one place or another. Today's version is significantly different from the original. Only the main components - avocados - turned out to be unchanged. Currently, the discussed sauce necessarily appears on the menu of restaurants serving Mexican dishes.
Composition and calorie content
As noted above, the main ingredient in the dish is avocado. Only in rare cases is it replaced with vegetable physalis.
In addition, the sauce includes freshly squeezed lime / lemon juice, small salt, hot pepper. It is also prepared with additional spices, vegetables, herbs. For example, a dish with the addition of ginger and garlic is very original. If desired, even meat products can be added to guacamole.
The calorie content of a dish varies depending on its composition.If we talk about the classic recipe, then this figure in the finished dish is 187.9 kcal.
What do Guacamole eat
Serve the discussed sauce / snack in a variety of ways. It all depends on the personal preferences of the gourmet.
- Classic Mexican sauce is sure to be served with thin corn chips. Do not replace them with potato, as this will change the taste of the snack for the worse.
- Often the sauce is added to the national dish fajitos. In composition, it resembles the usual shawarma. Meat, vegetables, seafood, cheese and other components are wrapped in a soft tortilla. Guacamole becomes the main sauce in the treat. True, all the ingredients are served separately to the table so that each guest can make an appetizer to his liking.
- An appetizing green mixture can simply be spread on slices of bread and pita bread, added to meat, fish, soups and salads. Guacamole can also be part of complex sauces.
Classic Mexican Guacamole Recipe with Avocado
Ingredients:
- very ripe avocado fruits (with slightly darkened skin) - 2 pcs.;
- hot pepper - 1 pod;
- garlic - 2 cloves;
- cumin - 1 pinch;
- lime - ½ pcs.;
- sea salt.
Cooking:
- Cut each avocado into 2 parts. Pull out the bones.
- Cut the pulp of the fruit with a net, after which it is easily removed with a spoon.
- Grind the mass and pour lime juice to it. The latter must be filtered from possible seeds.
- Cumin grind with sea salt in a wooden mortar.
- Add crushed garlic and very finely chopped hot pepper to the mass from the last step.
- Combine everything with avocado. Mix well.
The classic recipe is served with corn chips.
How to cook with tomatoes?
Ingredients:
- Avocado - ½ pcs.;
- tomato - 1 pc.;
- garlic - 2 cloves;
- red onion - ¼ pcs.;
- dill - ½ bunch;
- olive oil - 2 tbsp. l .;
- salt pepper.
Cooking:
- To make guacamole sauce with tomatoes, the first thing you need to do is chop finely chopped red onions. You need to choose a sweet vegetable.
- Grind the tomato in the same way.
- Chop the washed dill with a sharp knife. Instead, you can take other greens to taste. For example, cilantro.
- Cut off all the excess from the avocado, and mash the flesh with olive oil. If desired, you can use a blender.
- Mix all prepared ingredients in a common bowl.
- Salt and pepper everything.
Chill before use.
With bell pepper and parsley
Ingredients:
- avocado fruits - 4 pcs.;
- red onion - 1 pc.;
- chili - 2 pods;
- bell pepper - 1 pod;
- lime - 2 pcs.;
- parsley - ½ bunch;
- olive oil - 3 dessert spoons;
- tomatoes - 1 pc.
Cooking:
- Washed tomato needs to be cut into miniature cubes. The less they get, the better. But you can’t turn a vegetable into porridge.
- Do the same with two kinds of peppers and onions.
- Washed and dried greens are finely chopped.
- Free all avocados from pitting and tight peels.
- Crush the fruits with a fork, also without turning them into porridge. Visible slices of avocado should remain.
- Pour the green mass with a generous portion of lime juice. It will not only improve the taste, but also will not let the avocado darken.
- Mix the ingredients. Fill with oil.
To taste, you can add salt and spices to the treat.
Guacamole with ginger and lemon juice
Ingredients:
- avocado - 2 pcs.;
- tomato - 1 pc.;
- bell pepper - ½ pcs.;
- white onion - ½ pcs.;
- lemon juice - 2 tbsp. l .;
- fresh ginger - 1 cm .;
- pepper and salt.
Cooking:
- The first thing you need to do is an avocado - peel the fruits, remove the seeds. Immediately after this, you can transfer the remaining pulp into a mortar and knead to a thick slurry. Pour citrus juice.
- Remove half the pepper from the seeds and cut into small squares. Grind white onion and tomato in the same way.
- Peel the ginger. Finely rub the rest.
- Mix all the products. Salt and pepper.
Serve on a shared platter with sliced pita bread, dried in a skillet or in the oven.
Cooking with sour cream
Ingredients:
- avocado - 2 pcs.;
- onions - 1 head;
- sour cream - 1 full glass;
- fresh parsley;
- lemon - 1 pc.;
- cumin - 1 teaspoon;
- salt.
Such a non-trivial version of a popular Mexican snack includes regular sour cream. It makes the taste of the treat softer, more delicate, creamy.
There are no sharp ingredients in the dish, so it can be tasted even by the smallest gourmets.
Cooking:
- The first step is to peel the onions. Next - cut it large.
- Rinse greens, dry, tear with your hands. The amount of parsley in the snack can be adjusted to your liking.
- Send prepared ingredients to the bowl of a blender or other similar kitchen “assistant”. Interrupt everything until smooth.
- Add sour cream and repeat whipping.
- Wash the avocado. Each split with a knife into two parts. Remove bones and skin. If the fruits are ripe, the latter can be removed simply with your fingers. Otherwise, it is better to use a sharp peeler.
- Sprinkle avocado with lemon juice. Knead them with a fork until a thick, heterogeneous mashed potatoes.
- Combine the green mass with sour cream sauce. Add ground cumin and salt.
- Mix everything well.
When cleaning an avocado, you can simply remove the pulp from the halves of the fruit with a spoon. Then the remaining whole peel can be used to effectively serve treats to the table.
With bacon
Ingredients:
- avocado - 2 pcs.;
- green onions with feathers - 3 pcs.;
- fresh lemon juice - 1.5 dessert spoons;
- tomatoes - 2 pcs.;
- boiled-smoked bacon - 3 - 4 slices.
Cooking:
- Rid the avocado from the skin in any convenient way. Pull out the bones. Mash the rest with a fork. You can use a blender for this purpose.
- Coarsely washed and dried onion feathers. Pour into avocado slices.
- Do the same with tomatoes. Tomato slices should be the largest.
- Cut the bacon into thin long sticks. Fry in a dry skillet. Fat will soon sink from the product itself.
- Combine avocado paste with onions and tomatoes. If you want to serve the dish as a sauce, at this stage you also have to work with a blender again. But no less tasty treat is obtained in the form of a salad. Then the pieces of vegetables are left whole.
- Mix all the products.
At will, it remains only to salt the dish and season with lemon fresh.
To ensure that the Mexican sauce under discussion is always tasty, it is very important to choose the right products for it. Especially avocado. The fruits should be very ripe and soft, easy to knead even with a regular spoon. Otherwise, the sauce will be spoiled by crumbling slices of hard, tasteless fruit.
