Bruschetta Recipe With Guacamole (2024)

FAQs

What does guacamole go well with? ›

It's great with crudités, crackers, and corn chips, or as a sandwich spread.

Season to Taste.

Next, add lime juice. Often an additional pop of citrus is all guac needs to come alive and taste better. If you still aren't happy with the taste, you can rely on mix-ins to jazz it up. Try adding cilantro, salsa, a diced jalapeno or serrano pepper, feta cheese, or a few dashes of hot sauce.

This treat is usually served with chips at local Mexican or Tex-Mex restaurants, such as Moe's or Chipotle, but is also a popular ingredient on tacos, nachos, burritos, quesadillas, and more. Lucky for you—guacamole is easy to make and can also be enjoyed at home. What is Guacamole?

From the second you crack open that avocado, it's a race against the clock before it goes brown. But with the right prep, you can make guacamole last in the fridge for three to four days. Planning on storing guacamole in the freezer? It should last for three to four months.

Fun ways to customize your guacamole recipe

Your favorite regular salsa or fruit salsa. A little crunch from pepitas or even sunflower seeds. Extra heat with your favorite hot sauce. Savory goodness from crumbled cotija cheese and/or minced garlic.

Tomatoes are great — but not in guac.

They don't add anything other than filler. When you eat guac, what you want is creamy avocado, fresh lime, savory onion, salt, and maybe a little cilantro, if that's your thing. I'm never putting tomatoes in my guacamole and neither should you.

With ripe tomatoes so rare in the U.S., I generally leave them out.) I know what you're about to ask. "But what about oxidation?” While lime is touted as a way prevent avocados from browning, it takes a lot of lime for that to work—and it's generally a bad idea to transform a dish's taste for aesthetic reasons.

Eating excessive amounts of avocado or guacamole may lead to excess calorie intake and potential weight gain, but moderate consumption is generally beneficial due to the fruit's nutritional value.

Although avocados are nutritional powerhouses, they do have a high-fat content. So if you eat too many and go overboard, you will be consuming a lot of calories. “If you have a healthy weight, and good blood sugar and cholesterol levels, then eating half (or a whole small) avocado a day is fine.

Fresh cut veggies (crudités) like jicama, carrots, celery, bell peppers, radishes. Weird but good, crisp sweet, winey apples like Braeburn, Winesap or the Pink Lady types. Make your own pita bread chips. I use avocado or guacamole as a spread in sandwiches instead of mayonnaise.

Is there a difference between avocado dip and guacamole? ›

There is a vast difference. Avocado dip is green slime with no lumps and lots aof not nutritionally beneficial additives. Guacamole is ripe fresh avocados, smashed with a fork to which diced onion, slivered garlic, hot minced pepper and finely diced tomatoes are stirred in.

If you wouldn't put it in your guacamole, why would you eat guacamole off it? In the absence of the correct chips, a simple cracker (eg Carr's water biscuits), pieces of lightly toasted, inauthentic plain wheat tortilla or even breadsticks will do.

This Guacamole Steak Salad is my new jam. There are a lot of layers to this so let's start with the steak. It sits in a marinade with a ton of fresh citrus juice, herbs, spiced and peppers. Once it's had a while to soak up all that flavor, it's grilled to perfection.

Yes! Let's talk about it. While the chips that people usually consume with guacamole can lead to health issues, guacamole itself has a lot of health benefits. Just be sure to consume it with keto-friendly foods.

Serve this guacamole right away at room temperature with tortilla chips, or over your favorite nachos, chicken enchiladas, or vegan quesadillas. If you're not going to use it all right away, store it in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to 3 days.