Guacamole

NZ Herald 9/1/2012

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Serves 4

There is a bumper crop of avocados this year so guacamole can become your summer staple. I loved the way Grace used her time-worn mortar and pestle to mix this recipe together. Keep a light hand if you use yours. The trick to a great guacamole is perfectly ripe avocados. Let them be the star and don't add too many other ingredients.

Ingredients

2	Avocados
½ cup	Red onion, minced
2	Jalapeno chilli, minced (optional)
2 tbsp	Fresh coriander, finely chopped
1	Lime, for 1 tbsp of juice, or use lemon juice
1 to taste	Sea salt
1 to taste	Black pepper - ground

Directions

Cut avocados in half. Remove seed and add some lime or lemon drops to prevent oxidation. Scoop out avocado from the peel, put in a mixing bowl.
Using a fork, mash the avocado. Add the chopped onion, coriander, lime or lemon, salt and pepper and mash just a bit more.
Leaving the pit of the avocado in the middle of the guacamole also helps prevent oxidation.