So, with last week’s phat phajitas, there was the salsa from a tin and this rather lovely gaucamole. Guacamole, whilst looking a bit snotty and unnattractive, is undoubtedly fantastic and works great as a starter with toasted pitta or crudite and such like and is not to be sniffed at. It’s a piece of piss too, you just lob it all in a blender. You do’t even have to be to precise with the ingredients - if you like garlic, chuck more in and the same goes with the cayenne.

Guacamole

Ingredients

  • 4 cloves of Garlic
  • 3 avocados
  • Pinch of cayenne pepper
  • Olive oil
  • Juice from 1 ½ lemons
  • Salt and pepper

Chuck 4 peeled garlic cloves into you blender and blitz. Halve and de-stone the avocados being careful not to cut your hand off. That would be folly. Remove the skin and add to the blender and continue the blitz. Whilst it’s blitzing, add 6 seconds of olive oil, check for lumps and scrape down the sides of the blender. It may seem obvious but turn the blender off when scraping down or else you may lose the other hand. Another 8 seconds of olive oil, some pepper and salt and a tiny bit of cayenne. Penultimately, the juice of 1 ½ limes should be squeezed in. it is imperative that this is done by hand; you must feel the food. Finally, add a good handful of roughly chopped coriander and give a short sharp blitz. Don’t worry if there are a few small lumps. Do not make this one in advance, it will go brown and look rather unappetizing.