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    Award Winning Guacamole First Place 2010 and 2011. 2nd place 2012 (yep got beat by a lady who made some damn good stuff)

    Avocado Festival Fallbrook CA.

    (Grandma’s Recipe from Colima, MX.)

    QBN I owe you guys a lot and don’t mind sharing.
    Here is the recipe please respect the source

    Ingredients:
    8 Haas Avocados
    ½ Medium White Onion (Diced)
    1/3 Bunch of Cilantro
    3 Serrano Peppers (diced and seeded)
    1 Roma Tomato (diced and seeded)
    1-2 Key Limes (or common Persian Lime if you cannot find Key Lime)
    Medium grain Sea Salt or Kosher Salt

    Take all avocados and place them in bowl only smashing slightly with a fork. (keep two pits in the bowl.)
    Take half bunch of nice green and fresh cilantro and cut the bottom inch of the stems, just the part that might look dead or yellow. Do not cut all stems or pluck leaves since most of flavor is in the stems, they are needed. Place sprigs in a bowl of water fully submerged for about 5 minutes to get all dirt out. (Pat dry with paper towel thoroughly before using)

    Take the Roma tomato and cut it in to quarters. Now slice the seeds and liquid inside as to leave only meaty peel behind. Discard all liquid part of tomato as it will water down your guac! It will ruin flavor and consistency; this is a common mistake. Doing this will set your guac apart from most. The goal is only to add some color in the guac with the tomato. If you want “salsa” make salsa.

    Now take onion cut it in half and put away one half. Too much onion will ruin the taste of the avocado!! Dice the half you are using evenly in to half inch squares. Do not allow random size pieces in the mix and make sure all peel or green parts are discarded. Take all of this and toss it in the bowl.

    Take the three good size Serrano peppers and cut stems off. Depending on how sensitive to spice the crowd is you should seed one or two of the peppers. I usually only seed one pepper. IMO Guac should have a little ‘kick’, after all it is from Mexico. Take the peppers and slice them long ways until you are left with 12 strips. Now take your knife and remove all seeds and veins from 4 strips, or one pepper. This is where the heat lies. Now take those strips and slice them long way one more time to make more strips. Bunch them all up in your hand together keeping them straight and even and dice them up as small as you can. You should have all skin, veins and seeds except for the ones you decided to discard. Now throw all this in to your bowl. -- IMPORTANT-- Be careful not to touch your face or any other sensitive part of your body during this process!! If you are really scared you can wear a pair of latex gloves.

    Now stir the cilantro in the bowl of cold water to make sure all dirt is gone. Take it out and dry it thoroughly with a paper towel. Take all the cilantro you are using and bunch it up in to your hand in to a little ball. Now dice the ball with your knife thoroughly. Just make sure you are not leaving any long stems and throw all this in your mix.

    Now the trick is to simply “fold” the ingredients in the bowl do not stir them wildly as to create a soup! Take the limes and cut them in half make sure they are not yellowish or pale on the inside this will also make the guac taste bad. Squeeze the limes in to the mix making sure no seeds go in to it. Then use the Sea Salt or gourmet kosher granulated salt (not table salt) to flavor.

    Use chips to taste. If you are going to be storing it for a bit place saran wrap over guac and bowl as to not leave air (air causes oxidation which makes your guac brown) and place in fridge you should use within the hour or two..

    If you have any questions of confused about something feel free to contact me:


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    • "Javier Armstrong" eh? What a fantastic name — A Northumbrian Mexican!detritus
    • SWEET! thanks HIJO!moldero
    • haha yupHijoDMaite
    • thank you!
      MrAbominable
    • cheers!
      srhadden
    • i was just gifted a shit ton of avocados from my neighbor's tree. gonna try this out. thanks!scarabin
    • Scar dont skimp on the lime juice and salt, the more of both the better you will see. It brings the flavors together nicely.HijoDMaite
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