Lars’s Guacamole

A Little Personal History:

Going all the way back to my high school years at Thacher, where avocados were in abundance, I’ve loved Guacamole. Here’s my favorite way of making, developed over years of trial and error. The secret’s in the sour cream

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. Cut avocados in half with knife. With spoon, remove avocado pit and scoop avocado pulp into large 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 into center of bowl to help prevent browning and preserve. Tightly seal bowl with plastic wrap and transfer to refrigerator. Refrigerate 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.
  • In place of or addition too the hot peppers, you can always add a couple dashes of Lars’s Scorching Hot Sauce. Just be careful, I’ve thrown caution to the wind when including and ended up being the only person who could handle the heat