Background: I love guacamole. How can you not? It’s made from fatty fruit. Is it a move? If you can bring it to a party, eat it out of the container with chips, or put it on a taco, it must be something. Here are the steps:
- Buy 3 perfect small avocados, even if you only want one avocado’s worth of guac.
- Pick the best avocado and slice in half around the pit.
- Is this the best one? If not try another one. Keep going until you find the best one. Use that one and the second best one for guacamole. Keep the third best one for another recipe. If all three are perfect, congratulations, you have a lot of guacamole.
- Pit the avocados using the chef’s knife trick.
- Locate the little black base of the stem and remove it before it accidentally gets in the guac.
- Scoop out the avocado into a bowl with a spoon and mash with a fork. Leave some different sized chunks.
- Stir in pico de gallo until it looks like the kind of guac you like.
- Serve with the strongest chips you can find or modify the Corn Crisp Strips to be triangles.
Why It Works:
- Prefect avocados are the key to everything. I have weird proprioception, but somehow I can do this by touch. The trick I use is that they should be totally black but harder than I think they should be. You think guac, you think mashable. But it shouldn’t feel mashable through the skin. It should just feel, well, perfectly ripe.
- Pay very close attention to your fingers as you press on what you think is the best one.
- So the avocado picking thing is how you develop your avocado proprioception. If you grab the one you think is best and it’s not. Then you try again. If that’s not. Try again. Over time, you will remember what the best feels like.
- This is when you hold the avocado in a towel and lightly tap the center of the pit with the blade of a chef’s knife. Obviously cover your avocado hand with the towel completely.
- The best guac can be ruined by biting down on that bitter little sucker.
- You want the texture to be varied. It shouldn’t be a uniform whipped thing.
- This is your preference, but if it looks like salsa with avocado, you aren’t making guac anymore. That said, salsa with avocado is a great thing to do with the third best avocado.
- I know my guac is the texture and density I like with the thin variety of tortilla chips break off in mid dip.
Mods:
- Add chilled boiled or grilled shrimp.
- Add chilled crab meat.
- Add roasted peppers of your choice and heat level.