Easy peesy Gaucamole

If you are a fan of gaucamole like me, you would know its very difficult to find the good stuff in India. And if you do find it, the taste should be good too.

So here is an easy recipe for gaucamole which you can make at home in 10 mins. The key here is the avocado. It should be ripe. So how do you know if an avocado is ripe? It should be slightly soft to touch.

Ingredients 

- ripe avocado 1 no

- medium sized onion 1 no

- corriander - finely chopped 1 cup. This can be substituted with cilantro if available

- green chillies finely chopped 2-3 nos (depending on your tolerance). This can be replace with jalapenos if available

- lemon juice of 2-3 lemons

- sweet lime juice of 1 sweet lime (optional)

- salt to taste

Method-

1. Cut the avocado and remove the seed and the brownish kernel. We wont be using this.

2. Scoop out the flesh into a bowl

3. Mash the avocado into pulp

4. Add the chillies, corriander, lemon juice, onion and salt and mix it well.

5. Chill it and serve.