Homemade Guacamole Recipe with Freshly Baked Tortilla Chips

Guacamole is the life of a chip party. Luckily, making guacamole is fast and doesn’t require any special tools, unless you want it to. A guacamole recipe should have a rich flavor and eventually align with your personal preferences.

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Fast and Easy Guacamole Recipe

Bring the party with this simple avocado dip

Course Appetizer

Cuisine Mexican

Keyword Avocado, Chips, Easy snacks, guacamole, Healthy snacks

Prep Time 10 minutes

Total Time 10 minutes

Servings 3 people

Equipment

• If you do this a lot, you may want to consider a mortar and pestle

Ingredients

• 2 avocados
• 1/2 lime
• 1 tsp ground cumin
• .5 tsp red pepper flakes
• .5 tsp salt
• .5 tsp cayenne
• 2 tbsp cilantro
• 1/2 of an onion, diced and 1 diced Roma tomato

Instructions

• Remove the peel and seed, placing the flesh or mesocarp* into a sturdy medium bowl
• Juice the lime and add to the bowl
• Mash the avocado with the back of a fork
• Add the spices and stir to incorporate
• Add tomato and onion, if desired**
• Garnish with chopped cilantro

Notes

*Mesocarp is the fleshly, edible portion of the avocado. Which is something I’m sure you’ve always wanted to know.

**Some people love to add onion, tomato, and other vegetables to their guacamole and I support that. My significant other has strong opinions about what should and should not go into guacamole. So my guacamole is a testament to the purity of the avocado-lime-cilantro combo.

Give this guacamole recipe the platform it deserves and step up your chip game with this easy-to-make, baked tortilla chip recipe.

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Freshly Baked Corn Tortilla Chip Recipe

Get closer to a restaurant-style tortilla chip

Course Appetizer, Snack

Keyword baked corn chips, baked tortilla chips, Chips, corn chips, homemade chips, tortilla chips, tortilla strips

Prep Time 5 minutes

Cook Time 20 minutes

Total Time 25 minutes

Servings 64 chips

Equipment

• Baking sheet

Ingredients

• 8 corn tortillas
• 1 tbsp olive oil
• salt (to taste)

Instructions

• Preheat oven to 350°F
• Cut a stack of corn tortillas into eighths
• Toss tortillas in a bowl with the olive oil and salt (at least 1 tsp)
• Spread the tortillas evenly across a baking sheet
• Place in oven and let bake, flipping tortillas with a spatula every 7 minutes, until they reach desired crispness

Avocados are good for you, with vitamins and nutrients, like magnesium and potassium, as well as a dose of healthy fats and fiber that’ll help keep you full. Guacamole doesn’t detract from the nutrition in the normal way we like to transform our fruits and vegetables (apple to apple pie and potato to french fry, for example). Instead it adds other low calorie vegetables and spices in, potentially increasing the nutrients.

If you already like avocados, making guacamole is a win. Even people who don’t like avocados plain enjoy it. Guacamole recipes also make for a delicious topping for Mexican and Latin dishes. There’s a reason taco bars have guacamole, and it’s not just for the chips.

Homemade guacamole is a quick way to enliven an afternoon. It’s most widely used as a dip for/excuse to eat a less healthy snack, the chip. Specifically, tortilla chips. With portion control, chips aren’t terrible for you. (Keeping in mind that one serving is usually like 9 chips, which rarely is where you want to stop). Good alternatives to chips can be cheese chips, for you low-carb or keto practitioners, or baked vegetable chips.

Baking your own chips is very satisfying. It’s healthier than frying (which is why the ones at Mexican restaurants are so addictive) but still leaves you with a warm, salty ship to sail with your guacamole or salsa. It’s also a useful skill to have in your cooking arsenal for when you have extra tortillas in your home but find that the chips have vanished.

The recipe for baked chips is also a great way to make tortilla strips for soups and salads.