If you’ve never had Florida avocados, they are huge—one avocado would equal two Hass avocados. They are literally falling from the trees down here in South Florida in the summertime, which is great for me since I am a guacamole addict!
This grilled guacamole recipe puts a South Florida spin on traditional guacamole as it uses Florida avocados and tart key limes. All ingredients are grilled, including the limes, which adds a nice char and smokiness to the dip.
One of these days I’m going to plant my own avocado and key lime tree and pick them right from my back yard. Check back in 15 years to see if that happened. 🙂
Fire Roasted Key Lime Guacamole
Ingredients
Scale
- 2 Florida avocados (the really big avocados) or 4 Hass avocados
- 8 key limes, sliced in halves
- 3 tbsp. cilantro
- 8 to 10 cherry tomatoes OR 2 small Roma tomatoes
- 4 cloves of garlic
- 2 jalapeños
- Sea salt, to taste
- Ground pepper, to taste
- Skewers for the garlic cloves and cherry tomatoes (presoak for 20 minutes)
Instructions
- Heat the grill to medium heat, about 350 degrees.
- Halve the avocados and remove the seeds.
- Skewer the garlic cloves and cherry tomatoes (no need to skewer if using Roma tomatoes).
- Grill the avocado, limes, jalapenos, garlic and tomatoes until char marks form.
- Chop the charred avocado into bite-sized pieces. Mince the tomatoes, garlic, and jalapeños.
- Combine all the chopped ingredients in a bowl, next squeeze the juice from the charred limed into the bowl, using your fingers to catch the seeds.
- Stir all ingredients together and add the cilantro and sea salt and pepper to taste. For extra flavor, add a little lime zest.
- Chill and serve with tortilla chips. This is also excellent as a topping for fish or chicken and on salads.
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This looks awesome. Guac is one of my favorites!
You can’t go wrong with guacamole. Ever. I like to just gorge myself on it and fill up on that, plus a large margarita of course. 🙂
I didn’t realize you grew those big avocados. I love the idea of this recipe. We do have key limes in our markets right now and you can bet I’ll be charring up some Haas avocados for the football game tomorrow. Sounds delicious.
Hi Lea Ann. Yes, I didn’t realize what “Florida Avocados” were until I moved down here, they are huge and make a ton of guac. Let me know how it turns out for you!