The Best Homemade Guacamole
The best homemade guacamole is a flavor packed dip full of fresh, zesty ingredients. This guacamole recipe features creamy avocado, fragrant onions and garlic, sweet roma tomatoes, zesty jalapeno, and bright lime. Perfect for adding to all your favorite Tex Mex dishes or dunking tortilla chips into!
We love going out for Mexican food.
One of the absolute best parts of eating in a Mexican restaurant is the fresh guacamole prepared tableside.
It’s so much better than anything you could buy at the store and compliments those chip baskets so well.
If it’s easy enough for restaurants to offer tableside guacamole, it’s definitely doable to make the best homemade guacamole recipe right at home.
This homemade guacamole is as yummy (or yummier since you can customize it totally to your liking) as the tableside guac at a Mexican restaurant and absolutely blows store bought guac right outta the water.
Make one batch and you’ll never buy premade guac again!
What is traditional guacamole made of?
Traditional guacamole features a combination of avocadoes, lime juice, and salt.
You can add other flavors into it as well like diced tomatoes and onions for texture and sweetness and jalapenos for heat.
The best homemade guacamole recipe features all those flavors and a healthy sprinkle of fresh chopped cilantro to finish it off.
Ingredients
To make this you’ll need:
- Avocadoes– 3 ripe, but not overripe, avocadoes.
- Onion– Half of a small yellow onion peeled and diced.
- Roma tomatoes– Finely diced with the seeds discarded.
- Jalapeno– This is optional. Remove the seeds and dice it.
- Garlic cloves– Fresh garlic minced.
- Cilantro– Fresh cilantro, washed and diced.
- Lime juice– Fresh.
- Sea salt
How to Make
Homemade guacamole is so easy to make!
Just cut the avocadoes in half and remove the pits.
Then scoop the flesh of the avocado out of the skin.
Discard the skins and put the avocado into a mixing bowl.
Mash it with a fork until the avocado is smooth and creamy.
Stir in the remaining ingredients until everything is combined.
Taste it and add more salt if desired.
Serve and enjoy!
Storing Leftovers
While homemade guacamole is best fresh, you can store leftovers covered in the fridge for up to a day or longer with the trick below.
How to Keep Leftover Guacamole Green
If you don’t think you will eat the leftover guacamole within a day, then you’ll want to store it so it doesn’t turn brown.
To do that, transfer the guacamole to a storage container, pressing it out into a flat, even layer.
Pour half an inch of cold water on top.
Put a lid on the container and refrigerate for up to 72 hours, pouring the water off and stirring well before serving again.
How to Pick a Good Avocado
Choosing an avocado can be tricky since they have such a short window of perfection.
To pick one, first feel the avocado.
You want the avocado to feel firm with a slight give to it.
If the avocado hard with no give, it is under ripe.
An overripe avocado will feel soft like if you press it your fingers will sink into the flesh.
Another trick is to pull of the little stem on the end of the avocado.
If the area under the skin is brown, chances are the avocado is too ripe but if the area is greenish and the flesh is firm with slight give, it is perfect!
Tips and Tricks
- If you’re avocados are on the smaller side, you may need to use more for the proper ratio.
- I recommend using fresh lime juice for the best flavor, but bottled will do in a pinch.
- While I recommend mashing the avocadoes until they are smooth, you can mash them less for a chunkier guacamole.
Other Homemade Dips
The best homemade guacamole is a simple recipe full of fresh flavors that turn this into a real treat!
Make it and enjoy!
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The Best Homemade Guacamole
Ingredients
- 3 ripe avocados
- 1/2 small yellow onion peeled & finely diced
- 2 roma tomatoes finely diced, seeds discarded
- 1 jalapeno seeded & finely diced (optional)
- 2 garlic cloves finely minced
- 3 tbsp finely chopped fresh cilantro leaves
- 1 lime juiced
- 1/2 tsp sea salt
Instructions
- Halve the avocados, remove the pits, and scoop out the flesh transferring it to a small mixing bowl. Using a fork smash the avocado until smooth and creamy.3 ripe avocados
- Add the remaining ingredients to the mixing bowl and stir until everything's evenly combined. Taste and adjust the salt if needed.1/2 small yellow onion, 2 roma tomatoes, 1 jalapeno, 2 garlic cloves, 3 tbsp finely chopped fresh cilantro leaves, 1 lime, 1/2 tsp sea salt
- Serve with chips & enjoy!
Notes
- If you're avocados are on the smaller side, you may need to use more for the proper ratio.
- I recommend using fresh lime juice for the best flavor, but bottled will do in a pinch.
- While I recommend mashing the avocadoes until they are smooth, you can mash them less for a chunkier guacamole.
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