Welcome back to The Barbecue Lab. I'm David Gafford and today we're going to
teach you our hand smashed guacamole recipe.
Guacamole has become a staple in our household and we make it from scratch
all the time. What I want to do today is teach you how to make it and you can
make it in just three or four minutes. It's actually really easy and we find
that the simpler that guacamole, the more delicious it is on multiple dishes.
Because when it gets too complex, it kind of overrides the dish that you're
eating it with. So what I want to do is show you how to do this. We're gonna do
it in real time. So we're gonna start with three avocados and then we're going to
take jalapeno, we're gonna take a quarter cup of cilantro, a couple tablespoons of
onion, the juice of half a lime and some cracked sea salt. And that's all we're
gonna put in this today. So I want to show you how we do it. We're going to
take some avocados and all we're gonna do is we scored them down the middle.
We're gonna go ahead and take the pit out and all you do is take your knife, give
it a little pop like that, a little twist, that's how that comes out quite easy.
We're gonna go ahead and just score these so we can get them out and into
the bowl. Now, the same thing I'm going to do this with all of our avocados, and
we're gonna take those fresh slices and just scoop them out into our bowl here.
Get that delicious goodness out there. Now we take three avocados to make this
recipe. You could do it with less if you have fewer people in the house just go
to think about how many people you actually have in the house and how much
you're gonna need, but it's a really easy recipe and I'll tell you this is
something that is great for parties, great for having people over, it's great
for entertaining. I got to tell you we do it all the time.
You ever seen someone take out two avocado seeds of one knife before at the
same time? Um, there you go. First time for everything, right?
There's two... oh you gotta watch out for this in your avocados... watch out for
your stem. That's not great eats. Okay last one. I'm going to do all three. Pop
and turn... take these and score them, scoop them out, and these avocados are gorgeous.
Now if you have avocados that you picked up at a supermarket and
they're not quite ripe enough, they're not ready... what we do is we stick them in
a paper bag and seal up that paper bag on the end... then we'll take that paper
bag and just leave it on the counter for a day or two and you're gonna have some
gorgeously ripe avocados. Now if your avocados are getting too ripe and you
need to slow down the ripening process, what we do is we just stick them in the
fridge. Sticking them in the fridge is a really easy way to get them to slow down.
Now, so what we're gonna do is we're gonna take the lime juice, it's half of a
lime, we're gonna add this in, we're going to take our cracked sea salt, we're gonna
add this in on top as well, and then we smash. And that lime and that sea salt
is gonna give it a little bit of liquid to move around in the bowl the sea salt
is gonna help but kind of mash into a gorgeous guacamole paste. We're just
looking for a rough mash here, it doesn't have to be something completely creamy
and smooth. All right so we'll take that. Now we're gonna go ahead and add our
little bit of other ingredients we have our jalapeno, and we did go ahead and
take out the seeds and devein the jalapeno. So we don't have the seeds
or the heat that's gonna add there. We have our cilantro, and then we have our
onion. And with those things... we mix.
We use this recipe with all kinds of dishes. I mean we use this with breakfast
with eggs, we use this with hashbrowns, we use this with tacos, fajitas, all kinds
of things. And we love sharing this recipe with you. So if you haven't made
guacamole at home, you are missing out because this stuff is absolutely
delicious. Mmm...It's so fresh. That lime gives it that pop. But yeah it's so creamy from
the avocado. This is one I recommend that you give a shot at home. So if you
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