Creamy Avocado Sauce
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If there is one thing I don’t mess around with, it’s creating delicious sauces – they just make a dish come alive! I’ve made this creamy avocado sauce to be super flavorful, with just a dash of heat from the jalapeño. Plus, I’ll share my top tips for the creamiest, flavor-packed sauce that just takes 5 minutes!
If you’re looking for an insanely delicious guacamole-style sauce, you’ve come to the right place. This is a recipe I’ve been making for years, originally called ají guacamole — ají meaning a spicy sauce — and it’s earned a bit of a glow-up along the way.
These days, I call it creamy avocado sauce, but “the best sauce for tacos (and absolutely everything else)” might be even more accurate. It’s smooth, bold, and so good you’ll find yourself wanting to drizzle it on just about everything.
What is avocado sauce?
Avocado sauce is the best thing ever! This recipe for avocado sauce is like a dip, a sauce, and a bowl of guacamole that got together, and magic happened. It’s a little like all of those things, yet somehow better than each. It’s smooth, creamy, and bursting with fresh flavors. You can also easily adjust the amount of jalapeño to make it as spicy as you’d like!
Secrets for making the best avocado sauce
Here are a few tips for making the most delicious avocado sauce every time!
- Fresh is best: For the best taste and texture, make sure to use a ripe avocado. If it’s too firm, it will taste bitter and won’t make a creamy sauce. The same goes for herbs!
- Make-ahead tip: If you’re making this sauce ahead of time, store it with a piece of parchment paper or wax paper pressed onto the surface. This sauce doesn’t turn brown quickly like raw avocado, but I do this just to make sure it looks fresh.
- Consistency: You can easily adjust the thickness of the sauce. For a thicker sauce that’s more like a dip, use less water, or make it easy to drizzle by thinning it out with a bit more water.
What to serve with avocado sauce
I’m glad you asked! Some ways I’ve enjoyed it:
- With proteins: Avocado is such an agreeable flavor, you can use some over baked fish or my salmon cakes.
- As a salad dressing: Put this on literally any salad, ever! From my Mexican pasta salad, to this grilled buffalo chicken salad. It’s great with my baby kale and grapefruit salad or cauliflower salad, too.
- As a dip: Grab them carrot sticks and dip away! It’s also great with grilled veg, chicken strips, breads or baked goods, mozzarella sticks, or sweet potato fries.
- On a bowl: Dress up a grain bowl, or serve it over my burger bowl.
Creamy Avocado Sauce Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 ripe avocado
- ½ cup cilantro (packed)
- ¼ cup water
- ½ medium white onion (chopped)
- 1 clove garlic (minced)
- Juice from 1 lime
- ½ jalapeño (deseeded for less heat)
- ½ teaspoon sea salt
Instructions
- Add all ingredients to a blender or food processor.1 ripe avocado, ½ cup cilantro, ½ medium white onion, 1 clove garlic, Juice from 1 lime, ½ jalapeño, ½ teaspoon sea salt
- Blend on high until smooth. If it's too thick, add more water, 1 tablespoon at a time.
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If you have only made so-so tacos, you are about to get a change up. This sauce will fire up your game! It will even make Jack-in-the-Box tacos into something great.
I’m going to make some fish soft tacos and I saw your quacamole sauce and I will try replicating your sauce, cross your fingers it turns out well. I will give you feedback later on this week. Thanks for sharing
Made this up and substituted low sodium chicken broth for the water. Poured it over freshly smoked chicken/bacon …. BODACIOUS!
great recipe. i tweaked the proportions a little, added more garlic and lime and a couple sprigs of fresh mint as well. turned it all into cauliflower wings. holy yum.
I would love to make this into a sauce for some lamb tamales. How would you recommend thinning it? I’d hate to change the flavor profile.
I would simply add a little water. You shouldn’t have to add much to thin it. 🙂
This is so fresh and delicious!!! I’ve topped tacos, hash browns, pizza (vegan buffalo chicken), baked potatoes and Used it as a sauce with zucchini noodles…yum!!!
I’m so happy to hear that you are loving this recipe!
Easy and super yummy! A go to every time!! Thank you.
You’re very welcome!
I just made this and OMG!!!! So delicious, I was trying to put it in the glass container but I kept eating it, This is must to make!!!
Hahah I love it! Sign of a good recipe!
This sauce is amazing! We put it on tacos instead of guacamole and it was way better. Making this all the time now!
Yaaa! I’m so happy you like it, too!!
Made this last night and used smoked jalapenos (smoked from my Traeger) and this was awesome! Thanks for the recipe! YUM!
Smoked jalapeños? They sound incredible!!!
It does! I’ve kept it in the fridge for up to a week without it changing color!
I will try this recipe wen I return home
I hope you like it as much as I do!
Looks like a great easy and versatile sauce. I am most impressed that you did not add mayo (which I detest).
If you don’t like mayo in your sauces, keep an eye out for a post that I’ll publish next week. I have 7 mayo free sauces to share with you!
Shouldn’t it have Aji peppers if it’s in the title?
Aji means chili pepper and in this recipe, I’ve subbed japapenño.
perfect! i was looking for something for my tacos! 🙂
This is seriously my favourite guacamole for tacos. Hope you love it too!
The number one complaint I have about most guacamoles is that they just taste like AVOCADO- I need more cilantro!!! This recipe looks like it is right up my alley, thanks for sharing!
Hey Ashley,
I hope this guacamole hits the spot for you! Let me know how you like it 🙂