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Super Bowl Week: My "secret" ingredient makes guacamole less healthy

sarah's guacamole
No, I don't need to give you yet another recipe for guacamole.

Not only are there plenty of them out there, but a recipe for guacamole is like a "recipe" for a bowl of cereal or pasta salad, i.e. it doesn't really require one. It's enough to say that the basics are avocados, garlic, onion, scallions, cilantro, lime juice, salt, and pepper, and sometimes, chopped tomatoes. You mash them together and adjust everything to your taste. I usually leave cilantro out because that vile stuff tastes like dirty soap to me.

Though it tastes and feels like it would be naughty because it's so creamy, guacamole can be considered a "healthy" snack. Guacamole is made of all vegetables, and though people seem to focus on the "fat" part of avocado, the truth is, the fat may be fattening (like any fat), but it's still a "good" fat.

However, I have this thing I do to guacamole that pretty much yanks guacamole off the "healthy" table and hurls it down into the deep fat fryer with things like Buffalo wings with Blue Cheese Dressing and French Onion Dip.

I add a giant -- no, make that enormous -- dollop of sour cream to my guacamole. Not that good, ripe avocados need it, but the full fat sour cream makes guacamole even creamier, and adds a different tang in addition to the lime juice.

If you have a "secret" or interesting addition to guacamole, let us know in the comments!

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Filed Under: Super Bowl XLII, Ingredients
Tags: avocado, dairy, dips, fruit, guacamole, healthy, sour cream, spices, super bowl, SuperBowl, vegetables

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Reader comments (Page 1 of 7)

batty1of3

1-30-2008 @6:48PM batty1of3 said... noooo keep yer sour cream out of the guac
leave he nasty sourcream guac concoction it to the pseudo mexican fast food places

keep the guac pure and nice deep green
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Bert

1-30-2008 @6:54PM Bert said... If our grand-grand-grand-grand parents were eating it it's healthy. My great-grandmother didn't have margarine put on her toast in the morning. My grandfather never saw CheezeWhiz on the farm. Dad, he never saw pressed-mechanically-separated-chicken-meat-faux-bacon.

If it comes from the ground, just fell to the ground, is directly off the hoof, or is still wet, it's all good.
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Cheryl

1-31-2008 @12:26PM Cheryl said... I can't imagine why anyone would want to dilute the fabulous avocado flavor
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Mark Stevens

1-30-2008 @8:30PM Mark Stevens said... No - the basic ingredients of guacamole are avocados, lime juice, salt, and salsa (in the US, something like Cholula, Valentina, or Tabasco - not the chunky tomatoey stuff). That's it. Garlic, onions, scallions, and tomatoes might be added by some people, but they're not part of the most traditional recipes.
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rkleemann+slashfood

1-30-2008 @7:55PM rkleemann+slashfood said... There are certain food sins, like jalapenos in cornbread, that somebody created and everybody emulated without thinking. Sour cream in guacamole is one of the biggest. Don't do it. There is no reason at all to combine milk products and avocados. If you think you need to use sour cream to make your guacamole taste good, you're doing it wrong.
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sarah

1-30-2008 @11:03PM sarah said... If jalapenos in cornbread are a sin, then I'm going straight to hell.

ABT

1-30-2008 @8:36PM ABT said... I've never heard of scallions in guacamole.

I can't imagine that "dirty soap" would taste any better than "clean soap", nor does it smell any different to imagine what it would taste like. :P
(I'm only teasing.)

People seem to either love cilantro or hate it. I'm in the former category but it always goes bad before I have a chance to use the entire thing.
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Amber

1-30-2008 @9:47PM Amber said... To make quac healthier...add some mashed peas too it. The texture and color are the same, and you can't tell the difference.
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Amanda

1-30-2008 @10:32PM Amanda said... In my family we add a spoonful of mayo, it sounds gross but tastes awesome.
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Silver_Potato

1-30-2008 @10:42PM Silver_Potato said... Use Tomatillos instead of adding that sour cream garbage
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rainey Smith

1-30-2008 @11:01PM rainey Smith said... I use mayo too. And I can see that it does the same thing as sour cream — it's a neutral that let's all the other flavors relate to one another. If that's not how you want to do yours, then don't. But if you haven't tried it you won't know what smoothness it adds.

As for the cilantro — as a former cilantro hater I can tell you that it's a different flavor altogether when you trim off all the stems. It's the stems that carry the soapy flavor. Just like jalapeños are a different flavor when you trim away the seeds and ribs.
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rainey Smith

1-30-2008 @11:01PM rainey Smith said... I use mayo too. And I can see that it does the same thing as sour cream — it's a neutral that let's all the other flavors relate to one another. If that's not how you want to do yours, then don't. But if you haven't tried it you won't know what smoothness it adds.

As for the cilantro — as a former cilantro hater I can tell you that it's a different flavor altogether when you trim off all the stems. It's the stems that carry the soapy flavor. Just like jalapeños are a different flavor when you trim away the seeds and ribs.
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hannah

2-03-2008 @7:27PM hannah said... "I usually leave cilantro out since it tastes like dirty soap to me."

this actually seems to be a genetic thing, oddly enough. my sister and i can't stand cilantro for the same reason.
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Malaka

2-01-2008 @12:11AM Malaka said... My mom's Mexican boyfriend adds a splash of beer to his guacamole...I wasn't a believer until I tried it, and now I swear by it!
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Lynette

2-01-2008 @6:41AM Lynette said... Anyne who hates cilantro has no business giving recipes for guacamole
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Steve

2-01-2008 @6:48AM Steve said... cream cheese does the smoothing trick in our South Texas home
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Big Steve

2-01-2008 @7:08AM Big Steve said... Guacamole & sour cream are 2 seperate condiments, and a person should add condiments on an individual basis. You wouldn't mix Thousand Island and Italain dressing and then pour it on your salad, would you?
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Dianna

2-01-2008 @7:23AM Dianna said... Keep the tomatoes in this. In place of sour cream, use plain yogurt, for less calories. However, I like this lovely dip without garlic.
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Bailey

2-01-2008 @7:24AM Bailey said... Keep it healthy AND creamy. Use a giant dollop of plain lo fat yogurt for the same taste as the sour cream. Yummy!
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Hlaorooo

2-01-2008 @7:25AM Hlaorooo said... I don't know about Thousand Island and Italian, but I regularly mix Italian with Blue Cheese for an awsome taste, either on my salad, or as a dip for veggies.
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