Chunky Guacamole

Name: Chunky Guacamole
Yield: Serves 10 to 12 (Makes 2½ to 3 cups)
Cuisine: Latin America & Caribbean, Mexican
Ingredients: 3 , medium avocados, ripe, (preferably Hass); 2 tablespoons, minced onion; 1 medium clove, garlic, minced; 1 , small jalapeño chile, minced (1 to 1 1/2 teaspoons); 1/4 cup, minced fresh cilantro leaves; 1/4 teaspoon, table salt; 1/2 teaspoon, ground cumin (optional); 2 tablespoons, lime juice

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated May/June 1999, America's Test Kitchen TV

Appetizers

Latin America & Caribbean

The keys to velvety, chunky-textured guacamole are the right avocado and a minimum of mashing.

SERVES10 to 12 (Makes 2½ to 3 cups)

TIME15 minutes

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WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

Our best guacamole recipe put the avocado back where it belonged, at center stage. We started with fully ripe (the fruit yields slightly to a gentle squeeze when held in the palm of your hand), small, rough-skinned Hass avocados. Then we ma...

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