How do you make it? I thought it HAD to have sour cream and mayo, but I see some recipes that call for neither...is this right? It's hard to believe.
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GUACAMOLE GUAC-OFF!
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Posts: 6077 (01/02/09 6:46 PM) Registered User |
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Posts: 429 (01/02/09 6:47 PM) |
no mayo. fucking blech
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Posts: 493 (01/02/09 6:48 PM) Registered User |
avocado
lemon or lime salt |
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Posts: 214 (01/02/09 6:48 PM) |
No sour cream. No mayo. Just good quality ripe avocados, chopped red onion, garlic (garlic salt if in a rush and out of garlic), and chopped tomatoes, or a
good quality salsa mixed in...can add cilantro if you like it, a dash or two of Tabasco, a couple of shakes of salt if not using garlic salt, and hand mix it.
I prefer my guac chunky, not blended. Oh, and a dash or two of lemon juice helps delay the avocados from turning brown.
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Posts: 13520 (01/02/09 6:49 PM) Not a team player
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it depends.
sometimes i make it with just lemon AND lime juice, salt, garlic and cumin. sometimes i make it with lemon and lime, salt, garlic, cumin, cilantro and finely diced red onion and tomato. but i prefer it as natural as possible. mayo and sour cream in it is a travesty. sry 
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Posts: 15562 (01/02/09 6:50 PM) 10 per day, bitches! |
just buy the powder stuff. all you need then is a couple avocados. add lime to keep it from turning brown. ick.
i had a burger at red robin yesterday that had guacamole on it. it was divine!! |
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Posts: 6079 (01/02/09 6:50 PM) Registered User |
Sea salt? I'm thinking of putting it a bottled chili pepper sauce I have - just a little.
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Posts: 6080 (01/02/09 6:51 PM) Registered User |
I've never made it. but I could have sworn it had mayo and/or sour cream in it.
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Posts: 16186 (01/02/09 6:51 PM) super badass |
Add 2 hearty farmer blows for texture and colo(u)r.
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Sunnie |
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Posts: 215 (01/02/09 6:51 PM) |
then it was shitty guac. (re it having mayo or sour cream in it.) sour cream should be a side to it.
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Posts: 3090 (01/02/09 6:54 PM) Registered user |
definitely not mayo! i've never used a recipe with sour cream, but at least that makes sense.
i cheat and use a good salsa called "fresh cuts" from the deli, avocado, lemon, lime, cilantro. but you could chop your own onions, jalapenos, garlic and tomatoes. |
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Posts: 6081 (01/02/09 6:55 PM) Registered User |
Okay I have Cumin in my spice rack! And my habenero pepper sauce has the lime juice in it! I have it all except the cilantro - I'll be fine.
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Posts: 5521 (01/02/09 6:55 PM) |
mashed avocado, salsa, and some lime juice is fine for your average bachelor-type guac.
great ideas from sunnie |
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Posts: 6082 (01/02/09 6:57 PM) Registered User |
The pre-made guacamole I've tried is pretty bland. Tonight I just realized though, that I should have enough stuff around to make a decent one of my own.
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Posts: 13522 (01/02/09 6:58 PM) Not a team player
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we need to have a cerviche off!
i am always looking for new ways to make that! (even though i have perfected it according to my Peruvian friends) |
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Posts: 2566 (01/02/09 6:59 PM) Registered User |
The sour cream is a "stretcher." Damn avocados are like the filet mignon of vegetables/fruits.
Good guac is simple stuff. Make absolutely sure your avocados are RIPE. Do not buy avocados the day you're supposed to make it. It will be an epic FAIL from my experience. Give them at least two days to ripen. Use fresh garlic, fresh tomatoes and cilantro, if you like cilantro. And lime juice. I toss in a few chopped pickled jalapenos, but that's not necessary. Top off with a pinch of kosher salt to taste. I have a friend from Costa Rica who thinks anything more than a spritz of lime juice on a halved avocado is heresy. |
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Posts: 3531 (01/02/09 7:00 PM) Registered user |
i make it with avocado, garlic, cilantro, lime juice, a chili, and a little bit of chopped onion.
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Posts: 3060 (01/02/09 7:01 PM) Registered user |
Vegazguy wrote: guacamole bacon burger! my favourite there. |
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Posts: 3093 (01/02/09 7:02 PM) Registered user |
i've tried buying premade and every time it's bad...acidic or sour. it doesn't seem to last long enough to be sold in stores.
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goner1 |
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Posts: 6083 (01/02/09 7:03 PM) Registered User |
My already opened avocado has been safely inside a Debbie Myer Green Bag since yesterday - it has just a hint of brown to it. I want to use it all up today so
I thought of the guac. Those green bags really are good though.
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Posts: 1344 (01/02/09 7:04 PM) |
I'm so glad you mentioned this. I bought some avacados the other day so they could ripen so I could make guac this weekend. I was brought up on tex-mex
and make guacomole often.
first of all, WHO THE FUCK TOLD YOU THERE IS MAYO IN IT??????? THEY ARE SO VERY FUCKING WRONG!!!!! and sour cream -- no way in hell. as a co-worker explained to me once "us mexicans are too poor for sour cream" that is a total gringo thing on ANY tex-mex. not acceptable. keep it simple and keep it poor when making mexican food. simple rule. cut the soft avacados in half, peel them and pop the seed out. just in your hand, softly cut the halves into little chunks and drop them in a mixing bowl. they're 3 for $1 here, so I use 3. cut up one tomato in little chunks - again, I do this right in the palm of my hand. seeds, juice and all go into the mixing bowl. a little salt. (I am totally addicted to pink salt - low in sodium and has more nutrients and tastes even better than sea salt) I just stir the hell out of that mixture with a fork- mashing all as I go. I add tobasco (I KNOW - it's not mexican, but it works great) for liquid, as much as you can stand. and just keep stirring with that fork. TADA - perfecto guacomole. I love cilantro, but my family won't eat it. they won't eat onions or garlic either. obviously there are lots of varities, just play till you find your own perfecto guacomole. |
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