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How to make awesome guacamole
Ingredients:
- 4 large ripe soft avocados
- 12 cherry tomatoes
- small red onion
- whole lemon
- cilantro
Prepare a large serving bowl.
Cut each avocado in half.
Remove all but one pit - keep one pit to store in the guacamole to keep it from turning brown.
Use a butter knife to cut the avocado halves in a grid pattern with approximately 0.5cm^2 chunks.
Make more butter knife cuts diagonally to slice the avocado grid vertically, rotating the avocado in your hand as you do this.
Squeeze each avocado into the mixing bowl, stirring and homogenizing with the butter knife as you go.
Prepare the onion, cilantro, lemon, and tomatoes.
Slice the onion very thinly.
Slice the tomatoes thinly and gently squeeze excess water from the tomatoes.
Cut the lemon into 4 pieces.
Tear up the cilantro into small strips.
Gradually add each ingredient in turn. Never add all of one ingredient without tasting - you can always add more but you can't remove some. Squeeze 1/4 of the lemon over the guacamole.
Stir thoroughly until all ingredients are evenly distributed.
Taste the guacamole. Continue adding ingredients to taste.
Consider adding salt, but only if the chips you'll use are unsalted.
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