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Field of Dreams Guacamole

A creamy guacamole made with avocado, lime, garlic, and cream cheese, topped with a baseball-shaped cream cheese ball and red pepper skin stitching.

From the Wikibooks Cookbook · 13 ingredients
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Why it works: Avocado and lime match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,117 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Field of Dreams Guacamole

Serves 8

Ingredients

Directions

Make the cream cheese ball

  1. Blend cream cheese and buttermilk seasoning in a bowl.

  2. Place mixture in plastic wrap, roll into a ball, and chill in freezer for 1 hour or refrigerate overnight.

  3. Remove cream cheese from freezer or refrigerator.

  4. Roll cream cheese to make a round baseball shape.

  5. Remove plastic wrap from the baseball.

  6. Using a wooden pick, form the stitch lines on the ball.

  7. Use the thin pieces of red bell pepper skin to lay over the stitch lines.

Make the guacamole field

  1. Coarsely mash avocado with lime juice, garlic, salt, and red pepper sauce in a bowl.

  2. Stir in red onion and roasted bell pepper.

  3. Scoop guacamole onto a square plate with a rubber spatula.

  4. Spread guacamole evenly, making a slight mound in the center to create a 'pitchers mound'.

Decorate and serve

  1. Spoon sour cream into a pastry bag with a fine tip or a plastic bag with an ⅛-inch corner cut out.

  2. Pipe thin 'base lines' onto the guacamole 'field'.

  3. Cut the red bell pepper into 1-inch strips.

  4. Using a sharp knife, carefully remove the fleshy inside of the pepper, reserving the red shiny skin.

  5. Slice the skin into very thin strips to create stitch lines for baseball.

  6. Place the baseball on the mound in the center of the guacamole field.

  7. Use thin wheat crackers for bases.

  8. Serve crackers, tortilla chips, and/or bell pepper strips as dippers.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1312Calories
50 gProtein
46 gFat
180 gCarbs

Counts 13 of 16 ingredients. The other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 13 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Avocado1 medium (150g)240
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Tortilla Chip1 medium flour (45g)140
Yogurt170g plain Greek100
Cream Cheese1 oz (28g)99
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Red Bell Pepper1 medium (119g)31
Bell Pepper1 medium (119g)31
Limejuice of 1 lime (44ml)11
Chili1 tsp (2.7g)8
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Salad Dressingnot in our table0
Saucenot in our table0
Wheatnot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

Recipe from the Wikibooks Cookbook.

Steps grouped into stages for easier reading; the method is the source's own.

Explore the science

The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Avocado + limetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,117 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  2. Garlic + oniontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  3. Lime + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,491 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  4. Buttermilk + saucetop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together129 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Avocado + oniontop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,653 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Cream cheese
Firms into a shapeable ball when chilled, holding the baseball form.
Avocados
Provide the creamy base of the guacamole, giving body and moisture to the field.
Lime juice
Adds acidity that brightens flavor and slows browning of the avocado.
Red onion
Adds sharp, pungent flavor and crunch to the guacamole.
Roasted red bell pepper
Adds sweetness and color to the guacamole.
Sour cream
Adds fat and tang, giving the piped base lines a smooth, rich texture.

The step that matters

Chill the cream cheese ball before shaping. Cream cheese softened at room temperature is too soft to hold a round shape and stitch lines. Chilling firms its fat so the ball keeps its form when handled and decorated.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cream cheese, buttermilk, avocado, lime, garlic, pepper, sauce):

  1. Chivefits better
  2. Welsh onionfits better
  3. Cucumberfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cream cheese, buttermilk, avocado, lime, garlic, pepper, sauce. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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