Grilled Guacamole

[GrillinFool]

Trying something new. Putting the fill write up here, but for the rest of the pics you have to go here.

I prepared my propane gas grill for high heat (600°+). While waiting for the grill to get up to temp, I got out the things to put on the grill:

Ingredients
5 Avocados
1 Tomato
4 tbsp olive oil
1/2 lime

The avocados were cut in half. Then the seed was removed from each fruit. This was done by taking my santoku knife and striking the seed to attain a firm wedge. Give a little turn both ways until the seed is loose. After that, I cut the tomatoes into 8 equal wedges:

Pour the olive oil and squeeze the lime into a small dish. Brush the oil and lime on to the flesh of the avocado:

There is no need to brush the skin. Do the same to the tomatoes and the other half of the lime. Now they are ready for grilling:

Place all the avocados, tomatoes and lime on the grill, flesh side down. After about a minute, turn the avocado and lime 90 degrees and flip the tomatoes:

One minute later, remove all the fruits from the grill. My instant reaction was WOW, those are some wicked grill marks!

Peel the skin off of the avocados and place them in a bowl. Start smashing them with a masher or fork. Then, dice all the tomatoes and put them in the bowl.

Make guacamole with my simple recipe:

Ingredients
2 green onions
1/4 cup fresh cilantro
1/2 fresh squeezed lime juice
1 tsp salt

Place all the ingredients in the bowl with the avocados and tomatoes. Mix well.

 

[dhc905]

Your taste reaction? Does it make a difference or am I just wasting time making it? Sounds interesting in principle, but those are the famous last words before I make something nasty...

 

[DNW]

Not my cup of guacamole, but nice pics. The cheese is a bit redundant next to the fattiness of the avocado, non?

 

[GrillinFool]

Originally Posted by dhc905

Your taste reaction? Does it make a difference or am I just wasting time making it? Sounds interesting in principle, but those are the famous last words before I make something nasty...

You get a little different flavor profile in with the sugars in the tomato and avocado being charred. It probably could've used more of a char to really ramp it up. The main thing it did was take not perfect avocado and made them perfect.

Also, next time I'm going to give the onions a quick char. Take a whole slice of onion and stab a couple toothpicks in from the edges to keep it from falling apart. brush with a little OO, salt and black pepper, and a quick sear on each side to get some grill marks then dice. Going for charred, crisp onions, not limp grilled onions to top a steak or burger...