Fresh and Vibrant Guacamole Recipe Phil_A_Mignon
- 5 Haas avacados
- 2-3 shallots
- 2 limes
- 1 big handful of fresh cilantro
- 2 jalapeno peppers
- kosher salt and fresh cracked pepper to taste
- Captain Mowatt's Private Reserve Jolly Roger Hot Sauce (optional)
- Get a clean (non-metallic) bowl.
- Finely dice your shallots, dump in bowl, and add a good pinch of kosher salt (this will get the shallots sweating their wonderful sweet juices).
- Take your jalapenos, cut them lengthwise, seed them, remove the white pith.
- Now, heres the important part: Cut the jalapeno halves in quarter-inch strips.
- Lay the strips flat and, one at a time, take a very sharp knife and remove that membrane of the pepper that looks like tiny blisters filled with water, leaving only the meat of the pepper.
- Take those strips, dice them as finely as possible, throw in bowl, give a quick stir.
- Zest both limes thoroughly and throw in bowl.
- Cut lime in half and put aside.
- Take that bunch of cilantro and cut off only the very bottom of the stems ( ).
- Wash and spin the cilantro.
- Then mince entire bunch and throw in bowl.
- (Better option: If you have a mortar and pestle, pulverize the cilantro into as close to a paste as possible and throw in bowl.)
- Cut your avacados in half, pit them, scoop out the flesh with a spoon, throw in bowl.
- Heres the key: Do the above (cutting/scooping the avocados) and then juice the one lime over everything in the bowl as fast as possible, to prevent the avacados from oxidizing.
- Ive listed 2 limes in the ingredients in case you want more twang in your guac.
- Ive always preferred one, but its your guac.
- Mash everything with a potato masher to a semi-chunky consistency.
- Crush some pepper and add more salt to taste.
- Add the juice from some or all of that second lime if necessary.
- If using this hot sauce, add very little at a time as it is very powerful.
- What I love about this sauce is that it imparts a heat that sneaks up on you after you appreciate the wonderful flavor of the guacamole.
- Tabasco and others start to make guacamole taste too much like tabasco; this sauce doesnt do that.
- If you want no heat at all, thats fine, just omit this part.
- Guacamole is better after one night in the fridge in an airtight container (cover surface with plastic wrap).
- Guacamole, while it may discolor, is good for about 4-5 days from this point.
avacados, shallots, limes, handful of fresh cilantro, peppers, kosher salt, mowatts private
Taken from www.chowhound.com/recipes/fresh-vibrant-guacamole-11586 (may not work)