My husband’s company bus takes us to three of the oldest (and everyone’s favorite) malls in Qatar every Friday, alternating between City center, Villagio and Lulu. Although we only go sometimes due to husband’s busy shift work, kids absolutely love going to Villagio and City center as they both have huge play places.
If you ask me, I love Villagio just to look around people enjoying the boat rides inside the mall, few others posing for pictures and kids running around happily looking at the boats. ❤️ Food and shopping options are better at City center mall but Villagio does have Asha’s restaurant by Asha Bhonsle ma’am for great Indian vegetarian food.
Recently when we went to Villagio, I had already made dinner at home. So we were looking for light snacks there. That’s when I saw this guacamole wrap at Tea Time while waiting in their long queue for Karak tea ( I love love Karak 😍).
After tasting the wrap, I felt I could make it even healthier at home with our regular chapati. Few attempts later, I can now say, the guacamole wrap that I make tastes really super delicious.
To my luck, both Kenyan and South African Avocados are getting very cheap here and so in our weekly grocery, Avocadoes are a regular now. Kids enjoy its milkshake and love the wrap as well. For me too, it’s a filling, healthy snack before I go for my evening walk.
So this is how I make the Guacamole wrap and hope you all loved reading my short story. 😍 Do try it too when you get Avocadoes. Happy and healthy cooking ❤️
RECIPE:
Ingredients: {Makes about 4 wraps}
For the Guacamole:
2 ripe, soft Avocadoes
Juice of half a large lemon or to taste
1 small sized Onion
1 small sized Tomato
2 to 3 Green chillies
2 Garlic, peeled and finely chopped
3 Tbsp finely chopped Coriander leaves
Salt to taste
For the Wrap:
One chapati/ roti for each wrap
Step by step recipe:
1. Chop the stem part of the Avocadoes. I used Kenyan Avocadoes which are dark brown or black in colour.
2. Now it’s easy to peel off the skin like this.
3. Add to a bowl.
4. Remove the seed (one each) and mash both the Avocadoes using a fork till they are smooth in texture.
5. Add lemon juice and salt. Mix well. At this point, add lemon juice little by little, while tasting. You can also add more later. It takes me half a large green lime for two avocadoes.
6. Now add all the other ingredients like onion, tomato, green chillies, garlic and coriander leaves.
7. Mix everything and do a taste test for salt and lime. Guacamole is done! You can use it as a dip or as a spread.
8. For wrap, take a regular chapati. I make it triangular in shape so that it’s easy to hold the guacamole inside. Spread the guacamole evenly over the chapati as shown.
9. Roll to make the wrap.
10. Done!
Notes:
* In Guacamole, as per me, lemon juice and garlic are the most important ingredients. When I ate the wrap at Tea Time, Villagio, I felt the taste was slightly bland as the lemon juice was less for me and they had not added garlic. In my first attempt too, I skipped garlic and I felt it was not as flavourful.
* So I checked many authentic Guacamole recipes and found garlic in all of them. So I too added it and how wonderful does it taste with garlic and a little extra lemon juice. 😍 However if you are not a sour taste lover, you can add lemon to your taste.
* Green chillies can be added to your taste as well.
* Kenyan Avocadoes are so soft in texture and easy to peel as well as compared to Green Avocadoes. If using green ones, look for ripe ones and scoop the pulp using a spoon instead of peeling the skin like I showed above.
* For chapati, just knead whole wheat flour, salt and water to make a firm, soft dough. Keep it to rest for atleast 30 mins. Roll and make chapatis adding ghee while flipping in the pan.
* You can also try:
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