Preparation info
  • Serves

    6

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Soho Cooking

By Alastair Little

Published 1999

  • About

For a long time avocados were such an exotic ingredient, you could only find them in Soho in the 1950s and 1960s.

Ingredients

  • 2 ripe avocados
  • juice of 1 lemon or 3 limes

Method

Peel the avocados and remove the stones, then put them in a glass bowl. Add the lemon or lime juice, the onion and a generous seasoning of salt. Mash all this up with a fork. Mince the chillies, having removed their seeds (by this I mean chop as finely as you possibly can) then mix these into the guacamole and keep in the fridge tightly covered until needed. Guacamole does not