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Once you have removed all of your avo’s flesh, mash until desired consistency is reached. Unripe avocado is not always easy to mash. Ripe avocados: the foundation of any good guac. Photograph: Tanja Ivanova/Getty Images The rules: ripe avocados and lots of lime

And then, you’ll find recipes that are notable for what they leave out. In her book The Essential Cuisines of Mexico, the late British food writer Diana Kennedy – considered by many to be an English-language authority on Mexican food – omits lime juice entirely from her guacamole. Don’t forget the salt and lemon in the mash, as well as a little rub of garlic on the bread just before you toast. How to mash a hard avocado? To regular, non-avocado obsessed people, these gadgets might seem unnecessary and frivolous, but to people who get their avocado on every single day, they're worth their weight in gold. Plus, avocados' insane nutrition benefits make the tools totally worth having around if they'll encourage you to dig in. They're high in monounsaturated fat (AKA the heart-healthy kind), and have tons of fiber to help fill you up, too. If you want to mash a hard avocado, adding a bit of acid such as lemon juice or vinegar will help. This also prevents browning and improves the flavor, making it more appetizing for those who only like ripe avocadoes. Lopez’s golden ratio is one to one: one lime to one avocado should do it. Or 10ml of lime juice per 250g avocado. And please, no lemons – they’re too sweet, Castillo says. But otherwise, there are no rules (but there is good taste)

After you have cut open your avocado using one of the above methods, twist the two halves to set them apart. The pit will probably remain in one half. Carefully strike the pit in the one half with a knife blade, twist, and then lift the blade together with the pit. This almost seems like a silly recipe, but I truly think there’s a perfect formula for the best avocado mash, and I want to share it with you. Let’s get into what you need (it’s so easy, I promise)!

To this point, your questions on how to mash an avocado have been answered sufficiently. You can also try the avocado toast recipe I shared and let us know the results in the comments section. The other non-negotiable: lime. The one-two punch of citric acid and fragrance is essential to balance the pleasing unctuousness of avocado. “A really good guacamole should encourage you to keep grabbing another corn chip,” says Lopez. “You cannot cut corners. You need to have fresh limes in there.” Lopez says the recipe is likely representative of some of the earliest iterations of guacamole. “‘Probably in its original context it would have been just avocados and chilli mashed together,” he says. “[But] trying to find the closest original roots of it all, it might be quite difficult and potentially impossible.” Chop it finely – and use your potato masherMashed avocado is a bowl of mashed avocado where the whole bowl is mashed, which is a more spreadable form of smashed avo. This can be made by mashing half an avocado with a fork or a potato masher to make a more spreadable consistency. This is the hardest part of the recipe, am I right!? When you’re choosing fresh avocados for avocado mash, here are my best tips: There are many recipes that can use an avocado mash, but the Avocado toast recipe is the most common and straightforward. Here is how you go about it: Sometimes you don’t use all the mashed avocadoes and need to preserve for the next day. Unlike most other foods, avocado oxidizes relatively fast, forming a brown layer. After the removal of the pit, slice or cube your avocado how you like it. Ensure the knife tip goes all the way through the flesh but does not cut the skin. In the end, you’ll have a julienned avocado.

If you still have big chunks in your mash, use a mortar and pestle to crush them or put in a blender. In the end, you will have your mashed avocado ready for the toast. How to mash avocado for toast? In Australia – and Mexico – not all homes have a molcajete (Mexico’s answer to the mortar and pestle). But a great many more do have a potato masher, and most have at least one large spoon. Any of these will do for guacamole. Sometimes the pit comes out naked, leaving its skin on the endocarp. Use a spoon to skim carefully between the skin and the mesocarp, to remove the former. If you want to mash a hard avocado, the process will be the same as that of mashing unripe avocado. Simply cut the avocado in half, remove skin and pit. Then crush with a fork in a basin.VERSATILE BAR & KITCHEN TOOL - efo Wooden Muddler is an important bar tool to have on hand if you make a lot of mixed drinks or work as a bartender. The purpose of muddling is to bring out the flavors of certain herbs before adding the liquid part of the drink. It is perfect not only for making cold summer drinks, you can also use it as a pestle with mortar for cooking to get the full flavors and fragrances of crushed herbs and spices. Must-have tool for every household!

Cut the avocado, remove the pit, dice the flesh, scoop into a basin, and add a pinch of salt before mashing to the desired consistency. Avocado mash recipe Avocado mash has many uses, but you don’t always get to buy ripe avocadoes. Sometimes you fall for unripe, or semi-ripe ones, but you still need to mash them. Good news is that you can still mash an unripe avocado, and here is how you do it. If you choose to season the avocado, the salt and lemon drops will mix as you mash. Mix and mash with the fork until you achieve the desired consistency. How to mash an unripe avocado?

If you don’t have a masher, use a fork or spoon to mash the avocadoes in a basin. It should be easy to mash a properly ripened avocado with a fork. If it is semi-ripe, mash in two stages, 30 minutes apart, but be sure to add some acid to slow down oxidation. Can you buy mashed avocado?