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Pace Guacamole

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Pace guacamole, the four-ingredient shortcut guac built on ripe avocados, Pace picante sauce, lemon juice, and salt. No dicing onions, tomato, or chiles, the picante does all that work.

YIELD

2 cups

PREP

10 min

COOK

10 min

READY

20 min

Pace guacamole is the shortcut version every busy cook needs in their back pocket. The Pace picante sauce takes the place of the diced onion, tomato, and chile, so you skip three rounds of knife work and still end up with a dip that tastes legitimately good. Four ingredients, ten minutes, done.

The key is using genuinely ripe avocados. The skin should give to gentle thumb pressure, and the stem nub should pop off easily revealing green underneath. Underripe avocados mash into a hard, tasteless paste no amount of picante sauce can rescue.

Lemon juice does double duty: it brightens the flavor and slows the oxidation that turns guacamole brown. Some recipes use lime, which is more traditional, but lemon has a sharper acid kick that plays well against the tomato-chile heat of the picante.

Serve immediately or press plastic wrap directly onto the surface to keep air off if you need to hold it for an hour. Air is the enemy of green guacamole.

Kitchen Tips

  • Choose Hass avocados, the bumpy black-skinned ones. They have higher fat content and a creamier mash than smooth-skinned varieties.
  • Mash with a fork, not a food processor. Hand-mashed guacamole keeps texture, blended turns to baby food.
  • Use mild, medium, or hot picante sauce based on the crowd, the heat level translates directly into the finished dip.
  • Leave the avocado pit in the bowl while it sits. It doesn’t prevent browning (myth), but it does cover some surface area from air contact.

Variations

  • Stir in ¼ cup of fresh chopped cilantro for a fresher, more traditional flavor.
  • Add a minced garlic clove for sharper aromatic depth.
  • Swap lime juice for lemon for a more traditional Mexican profile.

Ingredients

2 2
LARGE LARGE AVOCADOS
ripe, peeled, seeded, mashed *
¼ 59
2 10
TEASPOONS ML LEMON JUICE
¼ 1.3
TEASPOON ML SALT

Directions

Combine all ingredients; mix well.

Serve as a dip or as a topping for Mexican foods, sandwiches and snacks.

* not incl. in nutrient facts Arrow up button

Comments


Connie United States

This has been our favorite quacamole recipe for over 20 years and always will be!

 

 

Nutrition Facts

Serving Size 3g (0.1 oz)
Amount per Serving
Calories 0 0% from fat
 % Daily Value *
Total Fat 0g 0%
Saturated Fat 0g 0%
Trans Fat 0g
Cholesterol 0mg 0%
Sodium 147mg 6%
Total Carbohydrate 0g 0%
Dietary Fiber 0g 0%
Sugars g
Protein 0g
Vitamin A 0% Vitamin C 2%
Calcium 0% Iron 0%
* based on a 2,000 calorie diet How is this calculated?
Low Fat, Fat-Free, Low in Saturated Fat, Low Cholesterol, Cholesterol-Free, Trans-fat Free, Low Carb, Sugar-Free
 

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