Ahhh, guacamole – the ultimate dip! Of course you could stick with the standard Mexican-style recipe that goes something like this:
Traditional Guacamole
Ingredients:
3-4 large ripe avocadoes
2 Tablespoons fresh lemon juice
About ¾ cup store-bought hot, medium, or mild pico de gallo to taste (found in the produce department)
Salt to taste
- Mash ripe avocadoes with a fork.
- Mix in lemon juice.
- Add in pico de gallo and salt to taste.
- Garnish with additional pico de gallo.
- Serve with corn chips, tortilla chips, or celery and carrot sticks
Or, you could jazz it up Cajun-style:
Cajun Guacamole
Ingredients:
3-4 large ripe avocadoes
Finely diced red and yellow bell pepper
2 Tablespoons fresh lemon juice
2 cloves of garlic, very finely chopped
About 1 cup cherry tomatoes cut into halves or quartered depending on their size
About ½ cup red onion, diced
Cayenne pepper to taste
Bryan Marcel's Signature Cajun Seasoning to taste Recipe
Course ground black pepper
- Mash avocadoes, lemon juice, and garlic together.
- Add tomatoes, onions, and some of the diced peppers.
- Mix in Cajun seasoning, cayenne and black pepper.
- Garnish with remaining peppers.
- Serve with sweet potato chips or celery and carrot sticks.
Or for something really different, try this French twist to your guacamole dip:
French Guacamole
Ingredients:
3-4 large, ripe avocadoes
2 Tablespoons of fresh lemon juice
4 Tablespoons finely chopped shallot
2 Sundried tomatoes, finely chopped
2 Teaspoons Dijon mustard
2 Tablespoons fresh tarragon or 1 tablespoon of dried tarragon
Garlic salt to taste
- Mash avocadoes with lemon juice, garlic salt, and Dijon mustard.
- Fold in tomatoes, shallot and tarragon.
- Garnish with additional tarragon.
- Serve on French bread cut into ½ rounds or celery and carrot sticks.
Did you know that you can grow your own avocadoes in Houston? For great information on growing avocadoes in the Houston area, go here.
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