Hello Carrots ‘N’ Cake readers! My name is Stacy and I blog over at Every Little Thing. My blog focuses on recipes that create simple meals using whole foods found at your local farmer’s market. And just like I enjoy supporting local farms, I’m also a fan of supporting local craft beer.
Something I love about Tina is her admiration for good craft beer. Good microbrews can replicate wine in terms of quality, hand-crafted taste, and flavor varietal (I just had a beer that tasted like peanut butter and jelly – seriously!). I’ve been trying to incorporate beer into the food I eat recently and have come up with some superb results, including the super easy recipe I’m bringing you today!
Guacamole with Beer-Soaked Tomatoes
Keywords: raw appetizer side snack vegetarian vegan Cinco de Mayo Mexican
Ingredients (serves 2-4)
- 2 medium-sized avocados
- Juice from half a lime
- ½ tsp garlic powder
- Salt and black pepper, to taste
- ½ onion, finely diced
- 2 tbsp finely chopped cilantro
- 4-5 sundried tomatoes
- ½ bottle Kolsch or Pilsner
Instructions
Cut avocados in half lengthwise and remove pits. Scoop the flesh out with a spoon into a bowl, then add lime juice, garlic powder, salt and pepper. Mash until smooth or chunky, however you like, then mix in onion, and cilantro.
Put sundried tomatoes in a small bowl and cover with half the beer. Microwave 1-2 minutes, until tomatoes are soft. Drain beer and chop tomatoes, then fold into guac.
Serve immediately, or after chilling in the fridge for 30 minutes.
Now, if you have a favorite guacamole recipe already, you can add in these beery tomatoes and it will always taste great. You’re basically rehydrating the sundried tomatoes with the beer, and it adds a slightly bitter, almost earthy taste to the guac. You’d never expect it, but it’s perfect!
Here are a few other Cooking with Beer recipes that I’ve posted recently:
- Beer and Bacon Pancakes
- Beer Cheese Dip
- Beer Fries (inspired by Edible Perspective!)
Most importantly, stick with beers that you would actually drink! If you’re really into craft beer, don’t use the Bud Light from 2010 in the back of your bar. Even though the alcohol cooks away in a lot of recipes and the taste transforms, it’s worth it (for the food’s sake) to use quality beer!
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I immediately sent this to my friend who loves beer! I used to but now I can’t have gluten. I’m going to try out a few gluten free beers though…
I love making beer cheese soup with a dark ale like Killians Irish Red. Thanks for the recipes!
Thanks for letting me guest post, Tina! Hope you enjoyed your vacay
Hi Stacey, love this post and clicked over to your blog– and I see that you’re from SE MI, like me! I also went to U of M, and now also go to Wayne State, for law school.
I am interested in all the topics you mention in your “about me”, and fully intend to read your blog regularly now! Go Blue!
p.s. your beer and bacon pancakes look nothing short of amazing. They WILL be made next weekend in my house.
@Emily: Wow that’s so exciting! Even though I live in St. Louis now, I miss it up there and visit often! Thanks for reading!
@Stacy @ Every Little Thing: I’m from the SE MI area as well
Michigan makes some fantastic beer!
I’m curious about the beer you had that tasted like peanut butter & jelly.. what was it called? I’ve had the PB&J Ale by Shorts and it was delicious!
@Jennifer: How neat! It was actually a local beer by St. Louis brewery Perennial Artisan Ales, called Plan B! I will have to look for that Shorts beer too.
I love guac…my mouth is watering just looking at that dip. I am saving this recipe for my Memorial Day Fiesta BBQ.
Thanks for sharing!
What an awesome post! So fun!
Recipe saved! YUM!!!
I’ve been DYING to make Ashley’s beer fries for such a long time…I’m adding this guac recipe to it!
That. Recipe. Looks. Amazing. At a restaurant I used to work at, we had Boulevard Brewery beer batter-dipped onion rings. Absolutely amazing!
Yum! Beer tomatoes! I love it!! Your recipes looks and sounds fantastic!!
That guac sounds REALLY good. I’m definitely going to have to try that.
This is a great recipe, my husband will go nuts for this guacamole!
I’m from Portland OR and we are pretty much known as the microbrew capital of the world heheh. My husband LOVES beer and luckily so do I since most of our night outs are spent at breweries. Definitely will be trying that guac.
After living in CO for awhile, then getting re-stationed to Seoul, S. Korea we were HOOKED on microbrews…your post came just in time as we have FINALLY found a brewery in Seoul!! YAY! Can’t wait to try out a few of your recipes~ we will love them for sure.