Día de Muertos Guacamole

To mark Día de Muertos, Carlos created a special guacamole for a dear friend who passed away earlier this year.

It’s a tradition to create an altar for loved ones who have passed away: made of the things they enjoyed in life, like food. The festivities are all about remembrance, joy and closeness, rather than sadness.

This guacamole is incredibly flavourful: the colourful chillies kick, you get acidity from the lemons and limes, and the juicy pomegranate seeds explode with each mouthful.

Ingredients

This recipe makes about 750g of guacamole or a 20cm diameter sharing bowl.

• • 2 big or 600g avocado
• •  1/4 or 50g of brown onion, peeled and finely diced
• •  12g of fresh coriander, finely sliced 
• • 2 fresh jalapeño chili, finely diced 
• •  The juice of 1/2 lime
• •  The zest and juice of 1/2 lemon
• •  Pinch of sea salt
• •  1/2 of or 80g of pomegranate seeds
• •  1 bag of Blanco Niño Ancient Grain tortilla chips

Method

• • Cut avocado in half, discard the pit, scoop out flesh into a mortar or bowl and mash it with a pestle or a fork 
• • Add the onion, coriander, jalapeño, zest and season with the citrus juices and salt
• • Pour on your serving container and sprinkle the pomegranate seeds over it
• • Serve with Blanco Niño Ancient Grain tortilla chips

This guacamole is best enjoyed with a generous helping of our tortilla chips which you can pick up at your nearest store (check out our map). We’re stocked in Ireland, UK and Sweden at the moment.

If you’re in the UK, you can pick them up at Ocado online. In Ireland, you can order online and we can send direct from our tortilleria in Clonmel to your door!

Enjoy!

Check out our other recipes here.