Feel free to call me a Guacaholic. I won’t be offended because it’s absolutely true. As summer is fast approaching, I am ready to fire up my BBQ and get my grill on and make this Charred Corn Guacamole on repeat.
This past weekend I broke out the grill for a little dinner party and whipped up this Charred Corn Guacamole along with some Cowboy Steaks, Grilled Potato Skins and Grilled Chocolate Stuffed Bananas for dessert. Everything was a hit but my favorite dish of the night was the Corn Guacamole, typical. Will I ever tire of anything involving avocado? Probably not! Once upon a time, after I finished recipe testing my avocado themed cookbook, I took a few months off of the most perfect food in the whole wide world, but other than that my avocado obsession it STRONG! Anyways… back to the guac.
The addition of the grilled corn just gave it an extra pop. Every bite you got a little burst of flavor in your mouth and I even got really fancy and made homemade spiced tortilla chips because I’m the hostess with the mostess. You guys will love them!
Charred Corn Guacamole
Ingredients
For the Guacamole
- 3 Hass avocados
- ½ lemon juiced
- ½ lime juices
- 2 teaspoons chopped jalalpeño
- 1 ear of corn
- 1 tsp olive oil
- sea salt and pepper to taste
- 1/2 teaspoon cumin
For the Chips
- Vegetable Oil
- 5-6 Small Corn Tortillas
- ½ teaspoon Garlic Powder
- ½ teaspoon Hot Paprika
- 1 teaspoon Salt
Instructions
- Cut the tortillas into 6 triangles each.
- Add the vegetable oil to a heavy bottom pan over high heat, about ½ inch deep. Once the oil is shimmering, add a few of the tortilla triangles at a time and fry for about 1 minute on each side until they are crisp.
- Meanwhile, combine the salt, and spices in a small bowl and set aside.
- Remove the chips from the oil and transfer to a paper towel. Sprinkle with salt mixture and let cool to room temperature.
- Brush the cleaned ear of corn with olive oil and sprinkle with salt. Place onto a heated indoor or outdoor grill and let sit for a 3 minutes or so on each side until slightly blackened. Remove from grill and let cool. Once cool, cut the kernels off and set aside.
- Combine the avocados, lemon juice, lime juice, jalalpeño, cumin, salt and pepper into a large bowl and mash together with a fork. Add the charred corn and combine. Serve with freshly made tortilla chips.
i love cumin and corn together…perfect balance of flavors!
This looks like the BEST guacamole EVER! Too bad it is pouring with rain right now and I can’t grill up some corn immediately!
Ohhhh – I love the addition of corn. What a great idea!
Truly obsessed and I love it! I imagine you making each of your guacs, sitting in the sun with them, and trying a little of this and a lot of that.
This guacamole sounds heavenly! I love guac pretty much any way it comes, but the cumin and charred corn must be especially delicious.
Gaby, I love cumin and the looks of the charred corn! Oh boy, yum! A hint of sweetness with the guac, perfect.
Oh and I am getting involved with the Natl Food Bloggers Bake Sale down here in San Diego with Marie 🙂
I love the addition of corn!!
Guacamole is one of my favorites also. This looks fabulous!
Gaby- I love that I can always count on you to come up with another fantastic (new!) guacamole recipe! Thank you from a fellow avocado worshipper.
I love the addition of charred corn!
We could be friends as it seems you have the same taste for delicious food that I have. Great idea with the addition of corn. We are getting a BBQ this weekend and I can’t wait to take this recipe for a spin.
I’d gobble that up in a heartbeat!
YEEeeeee-Haaaaa
i say we have a guac party. you bring the guac, i bring the margaritas!
Love the use of the cumin! I try to add this spicy whenever I can, its truly underrated. I spent some time studding Rick Bayless cookbooks and as you can guess he had many variations of guak. Your rivals all of his…nice work!!
this is such a great twist on a classic. planning on making it as soon as fresh corn shows up at the market again.
Cumin is a must in my guacamole. Glad to see I’m not alone.
I LOVE grilled corn in my guacamole!
This looks simply awesome. Love the idea to add corn!
And here I was wondering what to do with the over-ripe avocados on my counter! I’ve only got frozen Trader-Joes roasted corn (no grill, sadly), but it should work. Ever think about sprinkling some whole toasted cumin seeds on it?
I love charring corn…and to add to guacamole! Genius! Really reminds me of summer.
Yummmm!!! This will go well with my potluck!
Love cumin in my guac and adding the smoky flavor of grilled corn, yummm! Congrats on your photo/feature in LATimes Food, today!
This is a genius idea for guac, love the charred corn in there.
The corn will blacken slightly as it grills giving the dish a pleasant smoky quality..
Great flavors!
This guac is calling my name today!!! Love love love!!
totally in need of this right now!!
This is AMAZING! I could eat a boat load!
I’m obsessed with charred corn in guac! It gives it such a nice smokey flavor!
Kari
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Absolutely love this!! We use your cookbook all the time and every single guac is delicious!
I could eat the whole bowl on my own! I love the addition of corn
Where’s the cumin? I don’t see it in the ingredient list, or in the directions.
Just made this for a wine-tasting party and served it with spicy shrimp and chorizo skewers. Everyone loved it.
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Love the addition of corn to guacamole!
Totally a guacaholic and not even denying it…my roommates and I used to make guac almost EVERY single day last year because we were always craving it. And adding corn to guacamole makes it SOO amazing! Happened to win a guacamole contest with this secret addition 😉