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guacamole
Quick and easy to make and far nicer than store bought Guacamole.
Course
Dip
Cuisine
Mexican
Prep Time
10
minutes
minutes
Total Time
10
minutes
minutes
Author
Jacqueline Bellefontaine
Ingredients
½
small red onion
½
– 1 red chilli
handful of coriander leaves
juice of 1 lime or ½ lemon
½
teaspoon
brown sugar
generous pinch of salt
2
ripe avocados
chopped pistachio
optional, to garnish
Instructions
Finely chop the onion. Deseed the chilli if desired and finely chop. Chop the coriander leaves.
Place all the ingredients except the avocado and pistachios in a pestle and mortar and pound for a few seconds to blend.
Cut the avocado in half and discard the stone. Scoop out the flesh and add to the pestle and mortar.
Pound again until all the ingredients are well blended and you have a coarse puree.
Transfer to a serving dish or serve in the mortar and sprinkle with pistachio nuts, if desired.
Notes:
Not suitable for freezing