Venezuelan Guasacaca Sauce

Ingredients

• 1 ripe avocado, seeded, skinned and chopped
• 1 small red ripe tomato, diced
• a little olive oil
• vinegar to taste
• chopped hot chili
• chopped green pepper
• salt and pepper
• 1 hard-cooked egg, chopped
• chopped parsley
• chopped fresh coriander

Method

1. Chop a ripe, unblemished, seeded and skinned avocado. Add to it a small, diced red ripe tomato, a little olive oil, vinegar to taste, chopped hot chili, chopped green pepper, salt, pepper, chopped hard-cooked egg, chopped parsley and chopped fresh coriander. All ingredients are added more or less to taste.
2. You may vary this by adding chopped onion and/or minced garlic, even a dash of imported hot mustard. Serve it with barbecued or charcoal-grilled meats.

Notes

Newspaper Q&A clipping. A Venezuelan sauce very much like some versions of guacamole, served with grilled beef.

Original card

The recipe above was transcribed from this scan of Vera’s original card.

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