Try This Delicious Homemade Guacamole Recipe

This homemade guacamole recipe features avocados and other great and healthy ingredients combined with chili peppers, onions, cilantro, and more. 

This Mexican dip is known worldwide and many people enjoy its delicious taste every day. It is so popular that you can buy it ready-made at the supermarket.

The health benefits of guacamole

Let’s start by listing some of the benefits of this nutritious and colorful delicacy.

First of all, it’s important to remember that guacamole is high in calories because of the fats in avocados. For example, one cup contains 240 to 270 calories.

However, that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t eat it. On the contrary, the fat from avocados is very healthy for the body (as long as you consume it in moderation).

Plus, there are countless other benefits, including:

• Avocados contain a lot of fiber. A quarter cup provides about 3 grams of fiber. This is important for controlling your appetite, maintaining proper sugar levels and digestion.
• The vitamin A in guacamole helps keep your immune system strong and your skin healthy. A quarter cup contains about 85 IU of vitamin A.
• One serving contains 3 grams of polyunsaturated fat and 1 gram of monounsaturated fat. This makes it very good food for your heart, so eating guacamole reduces the risk of heart problems.
• Avocado fats also help absorb fat-soluble vitamins (A, D, E, and K) and help you feel fuller for longer.  This means that your body will feel more satisfied with the right portion. This prevents you from satisfying your hunger with unhealthy high-calorie foods.

After reading about some of the health benefits of this delicious side dish, it’s time to share our delicious homemade guacamole recipe. It’s so easy you’ll want to go get the ingredients right away!

How do you eat guacamole?

Guacamole is ideal to eat together with various salad dishes. It is also very common to eat it with nachos or tortilla chips, but you can also spread it on toast. It doesn’t matter how you eat it… You can even combine it with salads, sandwiches or soups.

Almost any type of appetizer goes well with guacamole. So try it with chips, tortillas, pretzels, cookies, vegetable sticks, chicken, cheese, fish, shrimp… The list goes on!

Now, without further ado, here’s an easy recipe to make delicious and nutritious homemade guacamole.

Ingredients for homemade guacamole

This Mexican dip actually comes in different versions, because the recipe depends on the region it comes from. This is to be expected, as avocados are found almost everywhere. There are other ingredients that can be found more locally and so are not widely available.

This recipe is the more universal variety:

• 1 chili pepper
• Salt to flavor it

• 1 onion (60 grams)
• 4 ripe avocados (400 grams)
• Fresh picked coriander leaves, without the stems (to season)
• 1 squeezed lime (45 ml)
• 1 medium tomato (30 g)

How are you?

• After thoroughly washing the ingredients, cut the tomato and onion into cubes. Then do the same with the coriander.
• Put these ingredients in a bowl where you will prepare the guacamole. You can also use a stone mortar if you have one.
• Make sure the avocados are ripe enough. Cut them in half and remove the pit.
• Then use a spoon to scrape all the flesh out of the skin and place it in the bowl.

• Then add the lime juice, a pinch of salt and the chili pepper to spice up your guacamole.
• Then use a spoon or mortar to mash the ingredients together.

Traditionally, guacamole has small pieces of avocado so don’t mash it too much. However, if you prefer it creamier, you can mix it in the blender.

Finally, if you’re not going to eat the whole bowl of guacamole, you can store it in an airtight container in the fridge for a few days to keep it fresher.