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The other non-negotiable: lime. The one-two punch of citric acid and fragrance is essential to balance the pleasing unctuousness of avocado. “A really good guacamole should encourage you to keep grabbing another corn chip,” says Lopez. “You cannot cut corners. You need to have fresh limes in there.” Cut the avocado, remove the pit, dice the flesh, scoop into a basin, and add a pinch of salt before mashing to the desired consistency. Avocado mash recipe

To this point, your questions on how to mash an avocado have been answered sufficiently. You can also try the avocado toast recipe I shared and let us know the results in the comments section. To regular, non-avocado obsessed people, these gadgets might seem unnecessary and frivolous, but to people who get their avocado on every single day, they're worth their weight in gold. Plus, avocados' insane nutrition benefits make the tools totally worth having around if they'll encourage you to dig in. They're high in monounsaturated fat (AKA the heart-healthy kind), and have tons of fiber to help fill you up, too.

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After you have cut open your avocado using one of the above methods, twist the two halves to set them apart. The pit will probably remain in one half. Carefully strike the pit in the one half with a knife blade, twist, and then lift the blade together with the pit. Although most people will mash the avocado plain as it is, it’s not uncommon to season the cubed avo with salt and a squeeze of lemon juice just before mashing. Once you have removed all of your avo’s flesh, mash until desired consistency is reached. Unripe avocado is not always easy to mash. If you don’t have a masher, use a fork or spoon to mash the avocadoes in a basin. It should be easy to mash a properly ripened avocado with a fork. If it is semi-ripe, mash in two stages, 30 minutes apart, but be sure to add some acid to slow down oxidation. Can you buy mashed avocado? Scoop out all of the meat with your spoon and drop it into a mixing bowl. You can loosen it up first by cutting a criss-cross pattern in the meat with a knife, then scooping it out along the scored lines.

The secret ingredient to perfect avocado guacamole is selecting a well-ripened avocado and adding salt to the mash. Choose an avocado that’s neither too ripe (would taste unpleasant), nor unripe (can be hard and flavorless). This is the hardest part of the recipe, am I right!? When you’re choosing fresh avocados for avocado mash, here are my best tips: Lopez’s golden ratio is one to one: one lime to one avocado should do it. Or 10ml of lime juice per 250g avocado. And please, no lemons – they’re too sweet, Castillo says. But otherwise, there are no rules (but there is good taste)Ripe avocados: the foundation of any good guac. Photograph: Tanja Ivanova/Getty Images The rules: ripe avocados and lots of lime

But in Australia, Shepard or Hass will do, provided they’re ripe. “You allow the avocado to create its own oils and [become] a creamy avocado rather than like a watery, tasteless avocado,” he says. It’s such a “simple and basic” rule, he says, but one that guacamole-makers ignore at their own peril. If you want to mash a hard avocado, adding a bit of acid such as lemon juice or vinegar will help. This also prevents browning and improves the flavor, making it more appetizing for those who only like ripe avocadoes.Sometimes you don’t use all the mashed avocadoes and need to preserve for the next day. Unlike most other foods, avocado oxidizes relatively fast, forming a brown layer. After the removal of the pit, slice or cube your avocado how you like it. Ensure the knife tip goes all the way through the flesh but does not cut the skin. In the end, you’ll have a julienned avocado. There are many recipes that can use an avocado mash, but the Avocado toast recipe is the most common and straightforward. Here is how you go about it: Sometimes the pit comes out naked, leaving its skin on the endocarp. Use a spoon to skim carefully between the skin and the mesocarp, to remove the former. VERSATILE BAR & KITCHEN TOOL - efo Wooden Muddler is an important bar tool to have on hand if you make a lot of mixed drinks or work as a bartender. The purpose of muddling is to bring out the flavors of certain herbs before adding the liquid part of the drink. It is perfect not only for making cold summer drinks, you can also use it as a pestle with mortar for cooking to get the full flavors and fragrances of crushed herbs and spices. Must-have tool for every household!

The best mashed avocado has creamy avocado, a hint of citrus, and salt and pepper to taste. Four Simple Ingredients Lopez says the recipe is likely representative of some of the earliest iterations of guacamole. “‘Probably in its original context it would have been just avocados and chilli mashed together,” he says. “[But] trying to find the closest original roots of it all, it might be quite difficult and potentially impossible.” Chop it finely – and use your potato masherMashed avocado can also be frozen with nodeleterious effects on its taste or consistency. Place in freezer safe containers and store for up to 3 days. And then, you’ll find recipes that are notable for what they leave out. In her book The Essential Cuisines of Mexico, the late British food writer Diana Kennedy – considered by many to be an English-language authority on Mexican food – omits lime juice entirely from her guacamole. It is all plastic, so I don't know how long it will last. Even though it's a combination tool: masher, corer, scoop, and pit-grabber, I only use the masher part. The edge that scoops the avocado out of the skin is not as sharp as our spoons, so I don't use that part. The pointy part that is supposed to stab into the pit and pull it out of the avocado flesh is not that sharp, so I don't use that part. I haven't used the corer on the handle, but it is plastic and not that sharp, so I probably won't use that.