Guacamole

Food is much more than just something we eat to satisfy our hunger.  It represents nostalgia, memories of the family, and can represent a moment in the history of a country, a symbol, etc.  Based on vocabulary.com: “Guacamole dates from at least the 1500s, when it was made by the Aztecs in Mexico. Guacamole is a Spanish word that’s based on the Aztec language Nahuatl’s ahuaca-molli, a combination of ‘ahuacatl’, avocado, and ‘molli’, sauce.

 

Skill Level: Easy 

Serving: 1 cup

Time to Prepare: ~00:20

 

 

 

Ingredients

• 3 or 4  Avocados, ripened
• 1/2 cup of Cilantro, chopped
• 1 or 2 Roma tomatoes, diced
• 1 Onion, medium, diced
• 2 teaspoons of Lemon juice
• 1 pinch of Salt

Tools

• 1 Pyrex bowl
• 1 manual blender
• 1 plastic spoon
• 1 wooden spoon
• 1 knife

Steps to prepare the dish

1. Take one avocado
2. Cut the avocado in half.
3. With the plastic spoon remove the pit.
4. Separate the skin from the avocado and put the fruit inside of the bowl. (Yes, the avocado is a fruit, not a vegetable)
5. Mash them with the blender.
6. Add the tomatoes and onion.
7. Stir all the ingredients with the wooden spoon
8. Put the mix in a Pyrex bowl
9. ¡Buen provecho!

 

Notes

• Once I heard that the Guacamole somehow represents the flag of Mexico since it has the same colors: green, red and white. Here is how I prepare the guacamole and you then can see why I believe that represents somehow the Mexican flag’s its colors.
• In Venezuela we have something similar, Guasacaca, and you can see how to prepare it by clicking here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qd1ILxjmS7M
• Some people add also red onion instead of white onion.

History

https://www.mesagrapevine.com/