Italian Style Guacamole
One of the best things about summer is the fresh avocados. I buy them all year round, but they never taste as great as they do in the summer. I love putting avocados in my salad, in my wraps, and in my omelets, but nothing compares to turning them into guacamole.
My friend’s dad always makes an Italian style guacamole. I love a garlic based guacamole; I’m not a fan of eating it plain. I hate boring. Whenever we are over for dinner, he usually has a giant bowl sitting on the counter for us, and it’s to die for. I decided to make his version for our cookout yesterday to go with the peach salsa.
Ingredients: 4 large ripe avocados, 1/4 cup chopped green onion, 1/4 cup diced red onion, 3 roma tomatoes, 1/4 cup chopped italian parsley, juice of 1/2 small lime, garlic powder, salt, pepper, 2 tablespoons olive oil, 1/4 red bell pepper.
Scoop out avocado and add them to a large mixing bowl.
Add tomatoes, onion, parsley, pepper, lime, olive oil and mix.
Start adding salt, pepper, and garlic powder. Use your tastebuds to determent if you need more of the three. I kept adding them until it was perfect!
I garnished the guacamole with a tomato slice, lime, parsley, and pepper!
The guacamole was a hit! I like to use carrot chips with it. The dip had so much flavor and I could have eaten it all night! Some put it on their burgers.
What is your favorite style of guacamole?
Grumples was all about that Guac! (dogs cannot have avocados…)
You need to try Giada D’s avocado hummus, omg so good. Especially since you are an avocado lover like me!
That sounds so good! To be honest, you had me at Giada!
My Mama makes Italian style guacamole for our family gatherings. The garlic is a crucial!
This looks great! I love adding a couple dashes of hot sauce to my guac for just a little kick. I once had guac at a restaurant in DC that mixed in grilled chopped pineapple. It was AMAZING and I’ve re-created it at home before. Perfect with fajitas.
Pineapple sounds amazing! I add jalapeño sometimes, but hot sauce is a great idea!
I love that the guacamole has Italian parsley instead of cilantro! 😉
No cilantro here!!
This looks SO good! But I’m confused: how is this Italian? The ingredients are the same as Mexican guac.
Yeah I was wondering the same thing… parsley instead of cilantro maybe? seems like a stretch though lol. Fresh minced garlic is in all guacamoles that I have tried!
Italian style guacamole is our favorite.
I actually would consider putting this on some brown rice or zucchini noodles to make this like a pesto! Yummy! Or dip it with some ciabatta!
Oh yum!
I love that this is a guacamole recipe with NO cilantro!!! Can’t wait to try it 🙂
Thanks Brittany! Can’t stand the stuff, tastes like soap!
Does Mr. Ralph use fresh garlic instead of powder?
Hey taralynn, I had a question, what type of camera are you using to normally take your pictures? Your phone or a regular camera?
Thank you,
Tiffany
I use a mixture of cameras! My olympus tough camera, the iPhone 6 plus, and my EOS Rebel with several different lenses.
I love a good guac, and this looks so yummy!
Thanks!!
Thank you so much for the guac recipe Taralynn, it looks fabulous! Could you share the crab cake recipe too? 🙂
My favorite guacamole recipe!
This was incredible!
Glad you liked it!