Holiday Guacamole Recipes

HOLIDAY GUACAMOLE RECIPE

Steps:

• Cut the avocado in halves, take out the pit carefully with a knife.
• Scoop the flesh and mash the avocado in a bowl using a fork until getting a creamy consistency.
• Add the lime juice and rest of the ingredients, combine well. Taste and add salt as needed.
• Serve with corn chips or your favorite toast
• Cut the flatbread with cookie cutters and set aside.
• Toast the flatbread in the oven.
• Spread guacamole to each of the flatbreads.
• Decorate with pomegranate seeds.

GARLICKY HOLY GUACAMOLE!

Steps:

• Cut avocados in half around the pit. Separate the halves. Pop out pit with spoon, then scoop flesh of avocados into a bowl. Squeeze the juice of a lemon over the avocados. Squeeze the juice with the lemon halves facing cut-side up, allowing the juice to spill down over the sides of the lemon into the bowl. This method keeps the seeds in the lemon and out of the guacamole. Add garlic, jalapeno, tomato, onion and salt to the bowl. Mash and mix the ingredients into a chunky dip using a fork. Serve with blue corn tortilla chips.

HOLIDAY GUACAMOLE

Steps:

• Mix the onion, chile peppers, and salt in a bowl. Fold in the avocados and lime juice. Stir in pear, grapes, and pomegranate. Chill until serving.

GUACAMOLE - REAL AUTHENTIC MEXICAN "GUAC"

Steps:

• Slice avocados in half. Discard the seed. Scoop out of shell with a spoon. Place in bowl.
• Add juice of one fresh lime immediately to prevent browning. Use a fork and mash to desired consistency.
• Add chopped onions, tomato, and cilantro. Stir gently to mix ingredients.
• Add juice of second lime and then salt to taste. Stir just slightly, until incorporated.
• Add jalapeño to taste.
• Serve with your favorite tortilla chips for a dip, or use with your favorite Mexican dish.
• a side note: this is to make a chunky, yet creamy guacamole. Some people prefer to use a food processor with all the ingredients to make for a VERY creamy dip.

HOLIDAY GUACAMOLE

Steps:

• In a medium bowl, combine the onion, chiles, salt, and cumin. Add the avocados and lime juice, and gently fold a few times to incorporate. You want the avocados to remain chunky. Then fold in the pear, grapes, and pomegranate.
• Garnish with additional pomegranate seeds and serve with tortilla chips. Enjoy immediately or cover tightly and chill for up to a couple hours.

SPICY SWEET POTATO PANCAKES WITH HOLIDAY GUACAMOLE

Steps:

• Heat about 1/3 cup of oil over medium to medium-high heat.
• Drain the shredded potatoes, pressing them down in a colander to get their moisture out. Place the potatoes in a bowl; using a box grater, grate the onion directly into the potatoes so that the onion juices fall into bowl as well. Add the egg and flour or meal to the bowl then season with spices and salt. Combine and drop enough batter into hot oil to make 2 1/2-inch pancakes. Add more oil, as needed, and fry cakes in batches until deeply golden on each side.
• You will get about 16 pancakes. Drain cooked cakes on paper towels.
• Cut the avocados in half, all the way around the pit. Remove the pit with a spoon, then scoop the flesh into a bowl and add the lemon juice, onion, garlic, jalapenos and a generous amount of salt. Mash the guacamole to a smooth consistency.
• Reduce the pomegranate juice to a syrup.
• Arrange the potato pancakes on a platter and top with heaping spoonfuls of guacamole.
• Drizzle pomegranate syrup over the guacamole and serve.

HOLIDAY GUACAMOLE

Steps:

• Halve the avocados, remove the pit and use a large spoon to scrape out the flesh into a large mixing bowl.
• Add the lime juice and garlic, and use a potato masher to smash the ingredients together until it reaches your preferred texture.
• Fold in the onion, cilantro, pomegranate and salt.
• Serve immediately with tortilla chips.

FESTIVE GUACAMOLE APPETIZERS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375°. On an ungreased baking sheet, unroll one tube of crescent dough and press into a 13x8-in. rectangle. Prick with a fork; sprinkle with 3/4 teaspoon taco seasoning. Repeat with remaining dough and seasoning., Bake until golden brown, 10-12 minutes. Transfer to wire racks to cool completely. , Cut each rectangle crosswise to make 4 strips (about 8x4-in.). For trees, cut each strip into 5 triangles, reserving scraps at each end for another use. For trunks, insert a pretzel piece into the base of each triangle., Beat cream cheese and guacamole until smooth; spread over trees. Halve and seed peppers. Cut 40 stars from yellow peppers using a 3/4-in. star-shaped cookie cutter. Dice and julienne remaining peppers for tree decorations. Decorate trees with pepper pieces and, if desired, cilantro. Refrigerate until serving.

GUACAMOLE HOLIDAY TREE

Steps:

• Cut block of cream cheese diagonally in half. Place triangles together on 12x10-inch piece of plastic wrap to resemble a tree. Cover with second 12x10-inch piece of plastic wrap. Press to flatten cream cheese tree into 7-inch-tall tree with 6-inch-wide base. Peel off top sheet of plastic wrap. Invert cream cheese tree onto serving plate; remove remaining plastic wrap.
• Mash avocado in medium bowl. Add mayo and lime juice; mix well. Spread over cream cheese.
• Cut 3 thin slices from pepper; place on top of tree. Seed and chop remaining pepper. Decorate tree with peppers, tomatoes and onions. Place 8 crackers, in 2 stacks of 4 each, at base of tree for the trunk. Serve with remaining crackers.

GUACAMOLE WITH PEAR AND POMEGRANATE SEEDS

Steps:

• In a molcajete or food processor, grind onion, chiles, and salt into a rough paste. Gradually add the avocado, coarsely mashing it (you'll want it to be chunky). Stir in the lime juice. Fold in the pear, grapes, and 1/2 cup of the pomegranate seeds. Sprinkle remaining 1/4 cup pomegranate seeds over the guacamole and serve.