Serious Sandwiches: Is There a Better Condiment than Guacamole?
Photograph from BKMD on Flickr
With the all important Cinco de Mayo holiday less than a week away, my thoughts turn to using the day as an excuse to transform ordinary sandwiches into lessons in excess. For example, adding guacamole to every single thing I eat. From a sandwich standpoint, is there a better condiment than guacamole? In fact, I can't think of many sandwiches that couldn't be improved with a giant spoonful of guac.
Here are some of my favorites.
Tortas
If it's Cinco de Mayo and you're talking sandwiches with guacamole, you have to talk about the torta (which really just means "sandwich" in Spanish). All the good ones are topped with avocado, onions, tomatoes, and sour cream—or as I like to call it, deconstructed guacamole.
The Cheeseburger
With spring upon us, we are very close to prime grilling season. What rule states that you must only eat guacamole with chips? If there's guacamole provided, you are obliged to top your burger with it.
Hot Dogs
See Above. Millions of South Americans can't be wrong.
Turkey Sandwich
Turkey sandwiches are boring. Turkey sandwiches topped with guacamole are exciting. Turkey sandwiches with guacamole and bacon are divine. Which brings us to...
Any Sandwich with Bacon
It's tough to say that guacamole improves bacon—bacon being the perfect food and all. Maybe it would be more accurate to say that bacon improves guacamole. Indeed it does. Indeed it does.
Your Favorite Sandwiches?
What are you favorite guacamole-sandwich combos? Post them as comments below, and if you have one this coming Monday, be sure to snap a photo and add it to our Serious Sandwiches Flickr Group.
I'm sure there will be plenty of sandwich photos taken this Cinco de Mayo—although they will probably end up looking more like this:
"Daniel Sandwich" (The guy in the middle is Daniel. Get it? Photograph from Hysterical Bertha on Flickr.
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10 Comments:
Guacamole (or just some sliced avocado smashed into the bread) on a chewy roll or toasted whole wheat with tomatoes, red onions, alfalfa sprouts, roasted red peppers (or ajvar), pepper jack cheese (or meunster).
Breakfast torta -- refried beans, eggs, and guacamole.
Cold roast beef (rare with lotsa salt), red onion, tomato, cheese, avocado/guacamole.
Avocados are on my top-five list of best foods ever. I could go on and on and on.
And on.
LoCo at 4:34PM on 04/30/08
Guacamole sandwiches are good.
I love tortas.
Guacamole is great on hamburgers and turkey sandwiches.
eatorama at 4:53PM on 04/30/08
While we're on the topic of guacamole, I was wondering if someone had a really good recipe. Having just recently moved out to the west coast it seems to be as ubiquitous as ketchup.
carvillian at 5:02PM on 04/30/08
You don't need a recipe for guac! Mash a couple of ripe avocados with cilantro, lemon or lime juice (I love it with key lime, but I'm from Florida), and, if you like it chunky, add diced tomatoes or onions. Some people add a tablespoon of mayo to make it creamier, but I don't care to.
Actually, I can't eat guac at all anymore, not for about two years now. I developed an allergy to avocado. I'm sad.
thepictsie at 6:21PM on 04/30/08
Nice ripe avocados, garlic salt, lemon juice and black pepper. Add ingredients to taste. Yum.
I like to leave mine a little chunky, the super creamy stuff reminds me of the stuff you get from the store. Some folks may add onion, but I think that overpowers the avocado. Some people may add tomatoes, but I think it makes the guac too wet.
Happy snacking!
erinlovestoeat at 6:21PM on 04/30/08
Incredibly.
Guacamole is also very good on hot dogs.
I like making guacamole with lemon instead of lime juice and I put a lot of chopped onions and tomatoes, garlic, pepper.
eatorama at 6:42PM on 04/30/08
I second the hot dog vote.
Nice crispy hot dog, almost burned, toasted bun, guac, shredded pepperjack cheese.
In my opinion, guac is not guac without tons of cilantro.
maddie at 7:50PM on 04/30/08
Avocados are a staple in my home. One of my favorite combinations is wheat toast with avocado and grey salt, arugula and home grown tomatoes. I recently made a guacamole recipe from Williams Sonoma that was delicious and Rosa Mexicana in NYC makes a killer guacamole.
Catharine56 at 8:01PM on 04/30/08
Guacamole, grilled onions, and salsa - the BEST burger of all time.
feriorrenna at 8:59PM on 04/30/08
My guac recipe is: ripe avocados, minced garlic, minced shallot, minced jalapeno, lime juice, and a few tablespoons of prepared salsa (because I don't like raw tomato). To the purists, this is probably wrong on many levels, but to each, his/her own.
LiveToEat at 3:21PM on 05/01/08