Hi, I'm Dr. Josh Axe and welcome to my kitchen.
This week I'm going to be making guacamole which is one of my favorite recipes.
It's a great snack.
It's great to watch during the game, and it's great to replace some of the traditional dips
you may use, like cheese sauces and ranch dressing, a lot of those unhealthy dips for
something like guacamole.
Guacamole has a lot of health benefits.
The main ingredient in guacamole we're going to start off with is an avocado.
What you're going to do here is you're going to start off with an avocado, and what I do
is I like to go in the grocery store and just kind of feel around on it and make sure it's
not too soft but somewhat soft and that you can kind of press in a little bit on it.
That's a great way to test for a good avocado.
What we're going to do here is start by cutting the avocado in half like so, and you're just
going to kind go around like this with it, and once you get there, what you're going
to do is just take your hands and break it apart like so.
And then what you can do, you can either pull the seed out with your hands, or a lot of
times you can just go there with a knife and kind of help bring it out.
Oh, I kind of broke it there.
All right, and then simply scoop out the seed in the middle.
What we're going to do now, once you have the avocado like this, we are going to take
a spoon and simply spoon out the middle of the avocado.
Let me tell you why these are so good for you.
Specifically, they have good fats.
They have what are called monounsaturated fat.
Omega-9 fat is the same sort of fat you're going to find in things like olive oil.
And so we're going to simply come around here, and you're going to just begin to scoop out
the inside of this avocado.
If you look at a lot of the other traditional dressings you make or a lot of the dips you
may use or dressings, most of them are full of unhealthy fats, things like soybean oil,
canola oil, even things like cottonseed oil or corn oil.
Those oils are very unhealthy, where avocado has good, healthy fats.
Good, healthy fats are important for hormone balance.
They're important for actually healthy complexion, healthy joints.
So this is one of those recipes that is actually going to help you live longer, age slower,
and just in general get healthier.
We're almost done here.
We're going to just kind of scoop out the rest of this avocado.
The next ingredient we're going to use is a tomato.
Now, you can either use a tomato or salsa.
Tomatoes are great because they're full of lycopene, and lycopene is a phytonutrient/antioxidant
that's going to help your body, actually protect your body against sun damage.
It's going to help you age slow, and it's actually great for men.
It's great for prostate health.
We're going to start here and simply you're just going to cut the tomato like so.
Then what I do is take the tomato here and just cut it in some smaller slices just like
this.
All right, finishing up putting the tomatoes in here, and depending on how chunky you like
the guacamole really depends on how thinly you're going to slice the tomato.
And so for myself, I like things really chunky so I leave the tomatoes in pretty big chunks
there.
The next thing we're going to be adding in is garlic.
We're going to take garlic here and simply slice this up into just small little pieces
here and add that in.
Garlic is great for so many reasons, but specifically, garlic has allicin in it which is a natural
antiviral, antibacterial that's going to kill of fungus, kill off candida in your body,
and also it has sulfur which helps clean out your arteries.
It's going to help de-plaque your arteries.
So it's great for anyone who has heart disease and also great for anti-aging.
The next thing here we're going to do is take a lime.
Limes are full of vitamin C. And so we're going to take this, simply cut it in half
and basically just take the juice here, and just squeeze it, just squeeze some of that
lime here over the guacamole.
All right, and then we're going to add some sea salt.
I specifically use Celtic sea salt or Himalayan salt because this also has trace minerals.
So you want to replace the salt in your house, the traditional salt, with sea salt.
Now sea salt in this recipe, you're going to put about one teaspoon of sea salt in here,
and then about a half a teaspoon of dill.
I just eyeball everything, but you're going to use about half a teaspoon of dill in there.
And now we're ready to start mixing up the guacamole.
What you're going to do now is just take a spoon and just really start mixing up and
smashing up the avocado here in this guacamole.
You can really do it into whatever consistency you like, depending on, again, if you like
it chunky or if you like it thinner.
And so we just kind of smash it up like so and mixing it up.
All right, the guacamole is done and ready to eat.
What I like to use rather than corn chips, I like to use sliced vegetables or rice chips
or maybe flax chips rather than conventional corn chips that are going to be full of the
hydrogenated oils, bad fats, and everything else.
One of my favorite things to do is slice up bell peppers, and specifically red bell peppers.
These are also full of lycopene and beta carotene and vitamin C, full of nutrients, and so you've
got a really nutrient-dense healthy meal here with the sliced up veggies and the guacamole.
And what you'll do is simply dip here, taste, amazing.
You've got to try the guacamole.