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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This was absolutely delicious. I used it for taquitos. However, I did add a little bit of chili powder and some pepper.
Chili powder sounds like a great addition!