Roberto santibañez' guacamole with tequila & apples
Alcoholic beverages
Mexican cuisine
The problem with chef Roberto Santibañez’s category-defining classic guacamole recipe is that once you try it, you stop acknowledging that others exist. It’s five ingredients and a perfect food, and will make you both an excellent guacamole provider and a terrible guacamole snob. But in the same cookbook, there are nine others worth trying. In making his case for tequila-apple-pecan, he’s very specific. The apple needs to be sweet and crunchy (not Granny Smith-tart) and diced not too fine, to contrast just vocally enough with the guac’s salty heat and richness. The pecans should be tossed in butter after toasting, not before, so you get fresh, unbrowned butter flavor, too. Adapted slightly from <strong><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Truly-Mexican-Essential-Techniques-Authentic/dp/0470499559?tag=food52-20"><a>Truly Mexican</a></strong> (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011).
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