Avocado Cream and Guacamole
I love avocado's. I never used to like them at all. However, while we were living in Jacksonville, Florida some friends of ours tuned us into the joys of that ugly little fruit. Yes, I said "fruit". The name "avocado" refers to the fruit (really a berry) of the avocado tree that contains an egg-shaped pit. Odd, I know. But it is. And like other odd things in the hortoculture arena (tomatoes are fruits too) it makes me feel like there is one more thing in this big wide world I can't possibly understand. So I don't. I leave it up to the experts to decide what is and isn't fruit and I just eat'em. And I love to eat avocado's. Did I say that already? No? Okay, good. Here is a recipe for an avocado cream which can be used in many different ways. It would be good on fish or burgers. Or if thinned out with a little milk would be good as a salad dressing. Use your imagination and find your own ways to use this delicious cream.
Avocado cream
1/2 cup sour cream
2 ripe avocados, peeled,pitted and diced
1 Tbls Roasted Garlic
juice from 1 lime
salt and pepper to taste
In a medium bowl, combine roasted garlic, sour cream and avocado. Mash with a fork until blended and smooth. Add lime juice and season, to taste, with salt and black pepper. The Ingredients. Avocado, Lime, Sour Cream, Roasted Garlic.
Add all ingredients and mash. I use a potato masher. Add Salt and Pepper to taste.
Your done. Now how easy is that? I used it on my hamburger. It definately gives it a deeper flavor. Oh, and please ignore that spoon laying there. It um...I'm not sure how that got there?
Guacamole
1 Avocado Cream recipe, above
1 medium tomato
1 shallot, finely minced
Peel and dice tomato. Place on several layers of paper towels and salt. After several minutes, press with more paper towels to remove excess juice. Add with shallot to avocado cream and serve with pita or tortilla chips.
I actually used onion, instead of shallot. But here is the salt, pepper, tomato and avocado cream mix.
Dice the onion really fine. Sometimes I even use a microplane to shred the onion, because I am not a fan of raw onion.
Dice the tomato really small. Then place them on a paper towel and press to get out the juice. The last thing you want is runny guacamole.
Now add it all to the avocado cream mix, salt and pepper to taste and enjoy with some chips and a beer.
