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    Home » Recipes » Appetizers Drinks and Dessert

    Guacamole Sauce (Salsa de Guacamole)

    Published: Feb 10, 2014 · Modified: May 1, 2025 by Mike Vrobel · This post may contain affiliate links · 2 Comments

    It’s Mexico week on DadCooksDinner. I spent five fantastic days at Seasons of My Heart cooking school in Oaxaca. I’ll be sharing what I learned for months, but here’s the first batch of posts.

    What was my first food discovery in Mexico? Guacamole. Yes, really.

    In Oaxaca, Guacamole is not the thick, chunky dip I am used to. My first day in Oaxaca, I went to lunch in the 20 de Noviembre market for the hall of Carne Asadas - an entire hall of grilled meat. (I was in heaven.) After choosing my meat and taking a seat, I ordered guacamole to go with my grilled beef and chorizo. What arrived with a bowl of thin sauce, the bright green color of ripe avocados, with a spoon floating on top. Was this the guacamole? Yes. Oaxacan guacamole is thin, ready to drizzle off of the spoon and onto my tacos.

    Much to my surprise, I preferred it to my usual, chunky guacamole. Saucy guacamole works better if it is meant to be a topping. It still works as a dip for tortilla chips, too - like a thin salsa instead of a chip dip. I ate a ton of it, dipping my tortillas in it…for taste testing purposes, of course.

    And it’s so simple to make. Toss everything in the blender and blitz it until it’s perfectly smooth, adding water as needed to thin it out. You’ll be ready to serve guacamole in about a minute.

    Recipe: Guacamole Sauce (Salsa de Guacamole)

    Adapted from: Salsa de Guacamole, Susana Trilling, Seasons Of My Heart, a Culinary Journey through Oaxaca, Mexico

    Prep Time: 5 minutes
    Cook time: 5 minutes

    Ingredients

    • 3 cloves garlic, peeled
    • 2 avocados, peeled and seeded, scooped out in large chunks
    • 2 jalapenos, stemmed and seeded
    • ¼ cup cilantro ( a packed handful)
    • water
    • salt to taste

    Directions

    1. Puree everything

    Put the garlic cloves, avocados, jalapenos, and cilantro, and a half cup of water in a blender or food processor. Blend until pureed and smooth, adding water to keep the blades moving and thin the sauce out. This salsa should be very thin, and will need extra water. When everything is completely pureed, and the cilantro has disappeared into the sauce, taste and add salt as needed, pulsing the blender to stir the salt into the sauce. Add salt until the avocado flavor jumps, and starts to have a hint of sweet on the tip of your tongue. Serve.

    Seeding an Avocado

    Here’s how I learned it from Alton Brown: cut the avocado in half, twist the halves to pull them apart, and the seed will stay in one side. Put that side in your palm, and carefully but firmly whack a chef’s knife into the seed. Hold the knife and seed steady, twist the body of the avocado, and the seed will pop out. Now, reach around the back of the blade and carefully pinch the seed off of the knife - keeping your fingers away from the sharp blade. Easy!

    Notes

    • Because I’m pureeing the guacamole, I don’t need perfectly ripe avocados. It's cheating, but...the blender will turn unripe avocados into a sauce, no problem. (Especially a powerful one like my Vitamix.) Now, like any fruit, avocados taste better when they are ripe. You’ll need a little more salt than usual with unripe avocados to help out the flavor.

    What do you think?

    Questions? Other ideas? Leave them in the comments section below.

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    Comments

    1. Mike V @ DadCooksDinner says

      February 11, 2014 at 12:33 am

      Thanks for sharing!

      Reply
    2. Charlie says

      February 10, 2014 at 4:06 pm

      I still have a ton of love for the thick, textured guacamole I typically make for chips, but the guacamole taquero style is fantastic when you're using it more as a sauce. I spoon it over grilled and roasted meat and use it as a condiment. The other stuff I use more as an appetizer or a dish in its own right.

      Having just moved to Texas, I've discovered a similar salsa/sauce at our local grocery, HEB, that's the same consistency, but made with roasted chiles, onions, and sour cream. Used the same way, it's also fantastic....and it would make a very quick, easy base for this style of guac, now that I think of it.

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