Guacamole! the Best recipe I've ever tried!

You might be surprised but I first heard about this awesome guacamole recipe while living in Korea. My friend told me that the best guacamole was made with a paste followed by adding avocado and lime. She said you needed a mortar and pestle to make this paste and I’ve had it in my mind ever since.

A while back I received an e-mail from a company called RedEnvelope. They asked me to look over their website and offered to send me any item I wanted to try out. I looked at their website and thought they had some really great items but never picked anything out. 

You guys! I had never heard of RedEnvelope and thought that e-mail was spam. Sorry RedEnvelope! I didn’t know. Apparently just about everyone else has heard of RedEnvelope because I even asked my non-blogging sister if she had heard of them and she said “Oh! Yes! RedEnvelope! They have awesome gifts!”

A week after I received the first e-mail RedEnvelope was awesome and followed up with me still wanting to offer me a product. I was so excited that it was a real deal and when I saw the mortar and pestle I knew that some amazingly good guacamole was in my near future.

I received the mortar and pestle and I immediately loved how pretty it was. The bowl (mortar) is a thick, smooth, sturdy porcelain and the wooden pestle gives the right texture to make a great guacamole paste. I was a bit hesitant because the bowl isn’t ‘textured’ like marble mortar and pestles but the wooden pestle gives just the balance it needs to really break down and blend spices.

Here is the guacamole recipe I used. You can find a full article about guacamole and why this recipe is ‘the’ recipe by clicking here.

Ingredients:

1 T. minced jalapeño or serrano pepper including seeds

2 T. finely chopped onion

1/4 c. cilantro chopped & divided

1/2 tsp. kosher salt, or 1/4 tsp. fine salt

1 lime

2 medium sized avocados

Directions:

1. Mash the pepper, onion, salt and cilantro using the mortar & pestle. If you don't have one you can smash the ingredients on your cutting board and then transfer them to a bowl. 

2. Cut the avocados criss-cross and then scoop them out using a spoon. 

3. Toss all the ingredients together but try not to smash all the avocados where they are creamy. You want some big chunks of avocado in there. 

4. Squeeze the lime juice in and lightly stir. 

Enjoy!

A big thanks to RedEnvelope for contacting me and for being so kind to send me an item! If you need a personalized and/or fun gift I highly recommend them.

How do you make your guacamole?

Have you heard of RedEnvelope?

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