I learned how to prepare this from my Mexican grandmother. It has been transmitted for a long time…
| Prep Time: | 20 mins |
| Cook Time: | 10 mins |
| Total Time: | 30 mins |
| Servings: | 6 |
| Yield: | 6 servings |
Ingredients
- 2 fresh chile de arbol peppers, or to taste
- 3 medium avocados – peeled, pitted, and mashed (one pit reserved)
- 2 tablespoons finely chopped onion
- ¼ cup chopped roma tomatoes
- 1 (14.5 ounce) can whole peeled tomatoes
- 1 ½ cups chopped fresh cilantro
- 2 pinches garlic powder, or to taste
- salt to taste
- 1 lime, juiced
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 300 degrees F (150 degrees C). Arrange chile peppers on a baking sheet.
- Toast chile peppers in the preheated until browned, about 7 minutes. Remove stems.
- Mix avocados, onion, and roma tomatoes together in a bowl.
- Blend canned tomatoes, cilantro, toasted chile peppers, garlic powder, and salt in a blender until smooth. Pour about half the blended tomato mixture into avocado mixture. Reserve remaining tomato mixture for another use or for dipping.
- Squeeze lime juice into avocado mixture and gently stir until evenly combined. Transfer guacamole to a smaller serving bowl; place reserved avocado pit in the middle to prevent browning.
Reviews
I made this for my daughter’s grad party and friends and family alike loved it! It was gone within a few minutes from me putting it out. Speaking as someone who has never made guacamole before, I was amazed at how easy it was to make!
Living in central California, I have had more variations of guacamole from different areas of Mexico than I can count. This is an authentic, delicious recipe worth doing again and again!
This was easy and tastier than anything I’ve made before. I rate it a 5 but my wife and son said 4 – so 4 it is. We will be making it again. We didn’t have the arbol peppers so next time we will be sure to find those and that will likely give it the pop worth a full 5 rating.
This is such a great gaucamole recipe! Thanks for sharing, will definitely make again. It was a crowd pleaser.
This is great! I wish my grandma had taught me how to make this.