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Recipe: Guacamole Dip

Recipe for Easy To Make Guacamole

You'll need:

• Cutting board

• Sharp knife

• A shallow-lipped dish or bowl, preferably with a flat bottom

• A potato masher, hand-held is better than an electric whipper

Ingredients (for one batch, feeds 2-4 people):

• 2 Haas avocados*

• 2 Roma tomatoes

• Fresh cilantro (usually comes in a small bunch or plastic bag)

• 2 fresh limes (not lime juice)

• Sour Cream (fat-free is OK)

• 1 package of Guacamole seasoning (Schilling, McCormick, or    Lawry’s)

• Cumin (a spice)

• Your favorite salsa (homemade or favorite brand)

• Favorite tortilla chips

Do not use green-skinned “Chilean” avocados. Haas (or “California”) avocados have a very dark skin, almost brown, and the skin has a “wrinkled” appearance.

Making the Guacamole:

1. Rinse the avocados. With a sharp knife, but avocado in half. Scoop out the seed with a spoon, then scoop avocado flesh out of the skin and put in the dish or bowl.

2. Pinch off several leaves from the tops of the cilantro and rinse. Trim off stems. Cut through the leaves many times until as finely minced as possible. Scrape into avocado.

3. Rinse the tomatoes. Cut in small pieces and then mince as finely as possible. Add to the avocado.

4. Cut one lime in half. Take one half and squeeze most of the juice into the avocado.

5. Spoon in a dollop of sour cream (about a soup-spoonful).

6. Open and empty the entire packet of guacamole seasoning into the avocado.

7. Add a “pinch” of cumin to the avocado.

8. Add a spoonful of salsa (about a soup-spoonful) to the avocado.

Begin to mash (with your potato masher). Continue mashing until almost all of the avocado has been mashed smooth (that is, mash until only little chunks of avocado are left, some avocado will be thoroughly mashed like mashed potatoes).

Depending on your personal preferences, you can now begin to add small amounts of cilantro, lime, and cumin until you have just the right zestiness! If you go overboard on any one ingredient, you can offset with little pinches of sugar (add in a pinch at a time, mix well, and taste), until you have the perfect flavor.

Refrigerate until ready to serve.

Serve in a wooden bowl.

Provides enough dip for 2-4 people. If using as a side dish to tacos, burritos, or fajitas, you might want to double the recipe so that you have enough for the side dish and as a dip for chips.

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