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Easy Guacamole Recipe - The Ingredients

A brief Web search on how to make guacamole will reveal some very varied and complicated recipes. When I make guacamole - as with anything else - I like to keep it as simple as possible. After all, adding too many ingredients of one's own choosing means that the dish ceases to be what it was intended to be! For this recipe, I am using two avocado pears, 1 large clove of garlic, half a medium tomato, one red chilli pepper, the juice of quarter of a lemon and of course, salt and pepper.

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How to Make Guacamole - List of Content

A brief guide to what you will find on this page

  1. Preparing the Ingredients to Make Guacamole
  2. Combining the Ingredients Together to Make Guacamole
  3. More Guacamole Ideas Around the Web
  4. Do You Like Guacamole?

Preparing the Ingredients to Make Guacamole

A couple of technical procedures are required

Although there is nothing particularly difficult about determining how to make guacamole, there are a couple of procedures were are slightly technical. That is the peeling and removing of the stone from the avocadoes and peeling the tomato. Although peeling the tomato is not absolutely essential, it does make for a smoother finish to the guacamole. Below are a couple of links to assist you in these two procedures which, in each case, describe the required techniques precisely and in very simple terms. (Both links will open in new windows, for your convenience.)

How to Peel an Avocado

How to Peel a Tomato

Combining the Ingredients Together to Make Guacamole

The hard work is now done

Guacamole in Avocado Skin with OatcakesWhen the avocadoes and the tomato have been prepared, the red chilli pepper should be de-seeded and finely chopped, the tomato half finely chopped and the garlic clove peeled and crushed or grated. The avocadoes should then be crushed in a pestle and mortar and all the solid ingredients mixed thoroughly together in a bowl. The lemon juice should be added and the guacamole seasoned to taste. In the photograph to the right, I simply spooned some guacamole back in to one of the half avocado skins and served it with delicious, Scottish oatcakes.

More commonly, however, Guacamole is served with traditional Mexican food, such as perhaps Fajitis. The link below explains how to make simple flour tortillas for preparing such a recipe:

How to Make Homemade Flour Tortillas

A Pestle and Mortar - Essential Tools for Making Traditional Guacamole 

Pestles and Mortars on Amazon.com

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Although many people today will make guacamole with the aid of their electronic kitchen gadgetry, there is something special about making these recipes in the traditional way, as they have been prepared for centuries. The additional benefit of using a pestle and mortar to make your guacamole may also be that they allow you to work out some of the frustrations of your day!

I have included but three very different examples of the pestles and mortars available on Amazon as an example. It is possible to click on any of them for further details or browse for yourself the Amazon.com Kitchenware Store or Amazon.co.uk Kitchenware Shop.
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More Guacamole Ideas Around the Web

It's always a good idea to shop around!

I mentioned earlier in this page that there are some very varied guacamole recipes to be found around the Web. Here are a sample of some of the best ones for you to look at.
How to Make Guacamole | eHow.com
How to Make Guacamole. Here's a recipe for an easy and welcome starter for any party. Ripe, soft avocados are essential. This recipe serves six to eight as an appetizer.
How to Make Guacamole
Are you looking for a great guacamole recipe? Guacamole is one of the most easy to make dips around. If salsa is the King of all Mexican dips, then guacamole is certainly the Queen. With its combination of fresh, ripe avocados, chopped tomatoes and...
How To Make Guacamole
How to make fresh chunky guacamole with a kick. Avocados are the heart of this Mexican condiment. Hass avocados, in particular, are fleshy and have tremendous buttery flavor. Creamy, tangy, herbed and spicy, this guacamole recipe will wow your taste buds.
Cooks.com - Recipe - Salsa Guacamole
Two very different Mexican dips combined to great effect
The Hot Sauce Blog
How to make Guacamole: A Step by Step Guide - Hot Sauce Blog - The Original Hot Sauce Blog. If it's not here, it's not hot enough! Hot sauce reviews, recipes, how to guides, interviews and much much more.

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