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Home-Made Guacamole

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Fresh ripe avocado with red onion, tomato, cumin, jalapeno, garlic, cilantro and lime

Ingredients

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  • 3 ripe avocados – flesh only
  • 2 TBL fresh lime juice
  • 1/2 tsp  ground cumin
  • 1/2 tsp  cayenne pepper
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1/3 medium size red onion – diced
  • 2 jalapeno peppers -seeded and minced
  • 11/2  roma tomatoes – seeded and diced
  • 2 garlic cloves – minced
  • 1 TBL cilantro – chopped
  • Blue corn or multi-color chips

Instructions

  1. Mix the salt, cumin and cayenne pepper
  2. Slice the avocado longitudinally around the center, remove the pit and scoop out the flesh
  3. Mash the avocado thoroughly with the lime juice
  4. Add the seasonings a little at a time as you mash, then mix in the cilantro, onion and jalapeno
  5. Taste and adjust salt and cayenne – if necessary, then fold in 3/4 of the diced tomato
  6. Place the remaining tomato on top as garnish and serve with blue or multi-color real corn chips

And just one more thing…

If you can’t wait and need immediate gratification, I understand. When you’re jonesin’ for guac, sometimes you have to  visit the deli counter. It’s not a mortal sin.