Easy Mexican Recipe Avocado Dip Easy Snack Without Calories

Use this easy Mexican recipe to make avocado dip that is full of avocado nutrition but an easy snack food with high fiber, low fat, and few calories.

If you like to snack on delicious finger food while watching the game on TV, use this easy Mexican recipe to make avocado dip that is full of avocado nutrition while being an easy to prepare snack food with high fiber, low fat, and few calories. If your triglyceride numbers were askew after the last blood test, learn to use the avocado. The avocado will actually help you shed pounds while at the same time it will fill you up.

Not All Fats are Created Equal

There are good fats and there are bad fats the nutritionists tell us.

Bad fats, it turns out, move in like a wayward cousin who comes for a night and never leaves. Good fats on the other hand act like the dream assistant. They come in, clean house, and leave unnoticed. Avocado is that dream assistant, it is loaded with monounsaturated fat, it is high in fiber, iron and potassium, it is stocked with vitamins A, B, C, E, and K: all this while being low in sugar and having no starch.

Preparing Avocado

You don’t even need to cook an avocado but you do need a chopper or blender to make the most of the green, pear-sized health food. Making the most of Avocado for a couch pilot means making guacamole. Sounds difficult and exotic but it is a deceptively easy Mexican recipe.

Guacamole comes from the Nahuatl (Aztec) word for avocado sauce and that is just what it is, ground avocado made into a paste or sauce. You will add a few spices and can vary the recipe to taste, but guacamole is simply ground avocado made into a dip. And a dip is just what the couch bound football addict is looking for. This one is, believe it or not, good for you.

You must make it fresh however to reap the health benefits of the avocado. The store bought guacamole is full of preservatives and bad fats and in some instances, very little avocado at all.

Guacamole

The original Mexican (Native American) way to make guacamole was to grind the avocado in a stone or ceramic mixing bowl. (a molcajete, 3000 year old examples of which are found in Mesoamerican archaeological sites) Garlic and onions were introduced later with the arrival of the Spanish.

You can use the mortar and pestle (molcajete) with great results but the electric chopper reduces the labor.

Wash the outside of the avocado, dry it, and then slice it in halves longitudinally, slicing around the large seed within. Break (twist) the avocado in two and spoon out the green and yellow interior flesh. Set aside. Discard the seed and skin.

Use half a clove of garlic for each avocado (more to taste). (1/2 onion an option)

Chop or grind the half clove of garlic in the mixer.
Add a quarter cup of fresh cilantro to this (or parsley) and a quarter cup of chopped spinach leaves. Add half a tomato (optional to taste) a pinch of salt, (to taste) a dusting of fresh ground black pepper, and a tablespoon of first cold press olive oil (a health food). Grind/chop this to the desired texture.
Add the avocado to the mixer and blend medium fine. (or coarse)
Add the juice of half a lime or (to taste) vinegar.

Serve this as a dip surrounded by an appropriate dipping cracker.

Serve The Guacamole

Now the danger begins; What cracker will you use. Most dipping crackers, tostadas, wheat crackers and so forth are loaded with bad fats, trans-fats, saturated fats, preservatives, and salt.

A day on the couch wolfing these tasty morsels of fats and salts will negate any health benefit of the Avocado.

Try these low-fat, low-salt, options.

Baby carrots; great snap, good for you. Any other chopped vegetable that can be eaten uncooked like broccoli, cucumber, or celery
Unsalted, low-fat, whole-grain crackers, low salt pretzels, the low-fat, whole-grain variety, and a Nordic favorite that goes back to Viking ship voyages, crisp breads.

The crisp breads are a rye flour dry bread made with just whole rye flour, salt, and water. They have no need for preservatives for increased shelf life. Hardtack is a wheat flower version, as are ships biscuits; all are low-fat, whole-grain dry breads.

The dipping cracker options such as hardtack are in the stores as people become more health conscious. With the rich strong taste of guacamole you don’t need any added taste by way of a cracker; the guacamole will impart enough taste and texture on its own. The bread is just a vehicle to transport that delicious avocado dip from the bowl to your mouth.

Give the humble avocado a try. You will find that this easy Mexican recipe for avocado dip will offer the avocado nutrition in an attractive snack food that also offers high fiber, low fat, and few calories. You will be amazed that a health food can taste so good. Happy dipping.