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Guasacaca – Venezuelan Avocado Salsa |
will find influences especially from Italy, Spain and France. If that is not
enough you will find indigenous as well as African influence.
country, each region in Venezuela has its own distinctive regional cooking.
shellfish, crayfish, and fish soups as well as fish stews. Coconut is
also part of some dishes. In the Andean region the food is quite different.
Here the “arepa” is not made of cornmeal but wheat. Cured meats and
sausages are a delicacy and are sold in many villages.
besides yucca, corn, beans and bananas you can also enjoy turtles, tapirs,
monkeys birds and deep fried ants. Squeamish you could also live on Casabe,
bread made out of yucca.
weekly Sunday marketing I started looking at avocados hubby was all too happy!
He was expecting a shake. When I came home I immediately started attending to
it (normally it’s lying around, he gets irritated and attends to it) was he
thrilled!!!
for a salad he just walked away….poor man!!!
had heard me admonishing the girls “keep some for Papa” he got curious and
Apeksha served him a miniscule portion just to harass him, “taste it Papa. You
may not like it” was what she told him!!
seconds but for fourths also. The entire bowl was over in one sitting. But the
best part was FIL too liked it!!
I replaced seeded jalapeno peppers with chillies and hot pepper sauce with
chilli sauce, white wine vinegar with red wine vinegar.
Guasacaca – Venezuelan
Avocado Salsa
Guasacaca – Venezuelan Avocado Salsa |
- 2 cups
onions, finely chopped - ¾ cup red
capsicum, finely chopped - 3 tblspn green
chillies, finely chopped - 3 tblspn extra
virgin olive oil - 3 tblspn red wine
vinegar - 1 tsp US mustard
- ¾ tsp salt
- ¼ tsp black
pepper, fresh ground - 1 large garlic
clove, minced - 1 ½ cups
avocado, chopped and peeled - 1 ½ cups
tomatoes, chopped - 2 tblspn dhania/
coriander leaves, chopped - ¼ tsp red chilli sauce
- Mix the onions, red capsicum,
green chillies, olive oil, red wine vinegar, mustard, salt, pepper, garlic in a
large bowl. - Toss mixture gently.
- Cover and refrigerate 3
hours. - Stir in avocado and tomatoes
and red chilli sauce just before serving.
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Looks delicious!
similar to guacamole..looks delish!
Delicious and lovely looking salsa. Wonderfully prepared.
Deepa
Yummy…..very similar to guacamole
omg so tempting salsa with avocado 🙂 looks very very tempting , I want to finish them with tortilla chips 🙂
Love the addition of capsicum here, delicious and inviting salsa.
Avocados make a wonderful salad..wish I could get it easily. .the salsa looks lovely and your hubby proved it.
Salsa looks delicious. Similar to guacamole with lot more ingredients in this salsa.
Excellent version with avocado!!
Love the flavors of all these ingredients. Avocado and tomato gives the salsa such a lovely color! Very nice.
Salsa looks amazing Archana, I am sure this will surely make us do a salsa..:)
Love these salsified version of guacamole 🙂
Very colourful salsa. I always think avacados are bland but this is what makes it perfect to merge with all the ingredients..
Love this flavorful blend.
Salsa looks colorful & yummy..
luscious textured salsa..if only I like avocados 😉
Salsa looks so bright and delicious.
This Venezuelan Avocado Salsa looks so tempting. Adding chili sauce, vinegar and mustard makes it so different from the normal one. Would love to try out the recipe when I get some avocados.
OMG! Mayuri I had forgotten I had this post. 😀 Thanks for reminding me. Will have to update once I get avacaddos.