Lars’s Guacamole

A Little Personal History:

Going all the way back to my high school years, I’ve loved eating & making Guacamole. Here’s my favorite, developed after years of trial and error.

Description:

History of Guacamole

Ingredients:

• 2 medium ripe tomato (diced)
• 1 medium red onion (diced)
• 1 jalapeño pepper (diced fine)
• 1-3 habanero peppers (diced fine) (1 = hot, 2 = very hot, 3 = scorching)
• 2 Tbs. Lars’s Salsa Verde
• 1 lime (squeezed)
• 1 Tbs. Lars’s Worcestershire sauce
• ½ tsp. salt & pepper 

• 4 ripe avocados (pitted and mashed)
• ¼ cup sour cream

Procedure:

1. Chop and dice vegetables, except avocados.
2. Place half of diced tomatoes in a bowl with peppers, Salsa Verde, lime juice, Worcestershire sauce, salt & pepper. (veggie bowl).
3. Place other half of diced tomatoes with diced red onion in a second bowl.
4. Both bowls can be sealed with plastic wrap and refrigerated up to a couple hours before use.
5. In large bowl, separate avocados in half with knife. With spoon, remove avocado pit and scoop avocado pulp into bowl. Save one avocado pit.
6. Add sour cream and veggie bowl mixture to large bowl. Mash and mix thoroughly.
7. Add onion and tomato bowl mixture to large bowl. Fold everything together thoroughly with spatula. Do not mash together as onion juices will overpower end result.
8. Taste test, tweak as necessary.
9. Push an avocado pit to center middle of bowl to help prevent browning and preserve. Tightly seal bowl with plastic wrap or transfer to refrigerator. Refrigerate for for 2 – 6 hours before serving. If necessary, re-fold before serving (Note: the longer your refrigerate, the spicier it will become – see "Flavoring Tip:).

Advanced Preparation:

• Step 1-4 can be done a couple hours in advance.

Tips, Notes, and Variations:

• Flavoring Tip:
  • The riper the avocados the better the flavor and easier to mash.
  • Habanero peppers will increase spiciness of guacamole over time. Take this into account when taste testing.