Homemade Delicious Guacamole!

Chris (@tman41) and I decided to head up to the cottage for a night so that he could take inventory of his camping stuff before heading to Bonnaroo this weekend. We’re always looking for something fun to do together, and we had so much fun cooking together before, so we decided to come up with a superb guacamole recipe and get to work with the ingredients.

We stopped at Zehrs in Keswick and picked out our ingredients:

  • 6 ripe avocados, peeled & pitted
  • 1/2 red onion, chopped
  • 1 large garlic clove, crushed
  • 1 small tomato, diced
  • 6 oz. Monterey Jack cheese, grated
  • 1 jalapeno pepper, diced
  • 1 cubanelle pepper, diced
  • 1/3 cup fresh cilantro, finely chopped
  • 3 tbsp fresh lime juice
  • 1 tsp salt
      In a large mixing bowl, mash the avocados, leaving some chunks. It’s best to do this by hand, rather than by blender, because you don’t want the avocado to be like a purée. The chunks add a different texture, as well as keeps the delicious flavour of a ripe avocado! We used a potato masher and a spoon.


      Once you’ve mashed your avocados, you’re ready to dice, chop and crush the rest of your ingredients!


       Last but not least, add all of your ingredients into the bowl and mix to blend it all together.


      As you stir it, your taste buds will be tickled by the incredible smell alone. Get out your favourite nacho chip (we used President’s Choice Sea Salt Kettle Style Tortilla Chips, which were really yummy!) and enjoy!


       Because we made our guacamole right before dinner, we decided to incorporate it into our dinner and make homemade burritos.


      Chris marinated the chicken in a smoky chipotle salsa and fried the slices in a pan. He used the leftover cilantro and lime from our guacamole recipe to create a cilantro & lime rice. We grated what was left of our Monterey Jack cheese, and voila! We had delicious burrito ingredients. Add lettuce, sour cream and any other of your favourite toppings, and enjoy!

      But we weren’t done yet!

      Our guacamole was so delicious, and there was so much left, that the next morning, as we were making cheesy chorizo scrambled eggs, we decided to make breakfast burritos!


      Using basically the same ingredients as the burritos from the night before (I added bacon bits and Franks Red Hot Sauce), we made scrumptious, savoury breakfast burritos.

      All in all, the guacamole was a tasty, fun and easy dish to make!

      (Prep time: approx 15-20 mins)