This 4-ingredient guacamole recipe without onion or cilantro is simple to make in under 5 minutes! You can make the ultimate party dip recipe from scratch with just four ingredients! Ripe Hass avocado, lime juice, garlic, and salt are all the ingredients for the best guacamole you can make!
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- Why You'll Love This No Onion Guacamole
- What Is Plain Guacamole Made Of?
- How to Make This Easy Guacamole Recipe
- What To Do With Avocados for Guacamole
- Storage, Make-Ahead Instructions, and Serving Tips
- Other Expert Tips for Making the Best Guacamole Recipe
- Recipe FAQs
- Other Recipes to Pair with Perfect Guacamole!
- 4-Ingredient Guacamole with No Onion, No Cilantro, No Tomato
Why You'll Love This No Onion Guacamole
These are the top 5 reasons to make this easy and fresh guacamole dip:
- Simple guacamole is quick and easy to make homemade from scratch with a few fresh ingredients you can find in the grocery store.
- This delicious dip has a perfectly smooth and creamy texture with delicious fresh flavor.
- A great appetizer to make a large batch of this favorite dip for a crowd, game day, or party - just like our Aldi charcuterie board or our boat dip!
- Basic and kid-friendly - made with simple ingredients and no cilantro, no tomatoes, no jalapeños, no onions, and is not spicy - perfect for picky eaters.
- Healthy, low-carb and keto, paleo, gluten-free, vegan, vegetarian, keto, Whole30, and dairy-free.
What Is Plain Guacamole Made Of?
Here are the ingredients you need to make this recipe. Reference the recipe card at the bottom for exact measurements and the notes below for substitution ideas.
What Kind of Avocado Do You Use For Guacamole?
Creamy and ripe Hass avocados work well for this 4-ingredient guacamole recipe. You can find the most ripe perfect avocados by selecting the perfectly ripe avocado for guacamole with darker, purple skin that yields to gentle pressure.
Is It OK to Use Lemon Instead of Lime in Guacamole?
Lime juice provides acidity that gives great flavor and prevents browning. Lemon juice can be swapped for lime if that is all you have on hand.
What Makes Guacamole Taste Better?
Grated fresh garlic also provides great flavor along with sea salt. Substitute garlic powder or onion powder if needed.
How to Make This Easy Guacamole Recipe
Below are step-by-step instructions for how to cook this recipe with the best results. The recipe card at the bottom shows the exact cooking time and temperatures.
- Remove the skin and pit from the avocados and place them into a large bowl. Place avocado flesh into a bowl and use a fork or a potato masher to mash to your desired chunky or creamy texture.
- Add fresh lime juice.
- Season with salt.
- Stir in the grated garlic. Taste and then adjust seasonings according to your liking.
What To Do With Avocados for Guacamole
- Do not use unripe avocados to make guacamole. To quickly ripen an avocado, place it in a brown paper bag and allow the ethylene gas emitted by the fruit to speed up the ripening process.
- If your avocados are ripe enough you should be able to peel them and remove the pit with your hands. If you need to cut the avocado to remove the pit, consider this great resource on how to cut an avocado.
Storage, Make-Ahead Instructions, and Serving Tips
- Storage: Store leftover guacamole in an airtight container or a dish with a piece of plastic wrap pressed into the dip. This is a great resource for how to keep guacamole green.
- Make-Ahead: Guacamole can be made 1-2 days in advance, however, the longer it sits, the greater the chance of it turning brown.
- How to Freeze Guacamole: Freeze no onion guacamole in a freezer-safe container for up to 3 months.
- Serving: Use it as a snack dip for veggies or crunchy tortilla chips. Or top Mexican dinners like tacos, quesadillas, carne asada quesadilla, homemade taquitos, or burrito bowls with this simple guacamole recipe.
Other Expert Tips for Making the Best Guacamole Recipe
- May add jalapeños or onions to make it spicy.
- To make this basic guacamole recipe even spicier add a little hot sauce to the top of the guacamole.
- Add in a can of Rotel or salsa to make it guacamole salsa.
- Omit garlic for low FODMAP.
- Remove all chunks by combining ingredients in a food processor.
- Make this no onion guacamole recipe with one avocado by dividing the ingredients by 4.
- The best way to make this basic guacamole suit your taste is to season and taste. Feel free to add more salt or lime juice as your taste prefers.
Recipe FAQs
Traditionally, guacamole includes ripe avocados, cilantro, onions, jalapeño peppers, garlic, lime juice, and salt.
Although lime is more traditional, you can use lemon juice instead of lime juice to prevent the guacamole from turning brown and to give it an acidic balance in flavor.
Always include lime juice (or lemon juice as a substitute). Try to eat it the day you make it if possible.
This 4-ingredient guacamole recipe has no onion.
To make simple and smooth guacamole, simply omit any kind of onion and cilantro. You will still have great flavor by using this recipe that has grated garlic, salt, and lime juice.
Guacamole is a dip with a few ingredients while avocado is a fruit. Mashed avocado is the name of a dip using just avocado.
Although simple, the salt, lime juice and garlic make guacamole taste better and you won't miss the other ingredients.
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4-Ingredient Guacamole with No Onion, No Cilantro, No Tomato
Equipment
- 1 hand grater
Ingredients
- 4 Hass avocados ripe
- 1 lime juiced
- 3 cloves garlic grated or minced
- 1 teaspoon flaky sea salt
Instructions
- Remove the skin and pit from the avocados and place them into a bowl. Place avocado flesh into a bowl and use a fork to mash to your desired chunky or creamy texture.4 Hass avocados
- Add garlic, salt and lime juice. Taste and then adjust seasonings according to your liking.1 lime, 3 cloves garlic, 1 teaspoon flaky sea salt
Notes
- May add jalapeños, hot sauce, or onions to make it spicy.
- Make this recipe with one avocado by dividing the ingredients by 4.
- The best way to make this basic guacamole suit your taste is to season and taste. Feel free to add more salt or lime juice as your taste prefers.
- Store leftovers in a glass bowl with plastic wrap pressed into the top of the dip. Refrigerate for up to 3 days. This homemade guacamole recipe is best eaten the day it is made.
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Julie Johnson says
To me the perfect guac highlights the avocado! The simpler the better!
Lyndsey Piccolino says
Thanks Julie! I'm so glad you like it.
Anonymous says
This recipe appealed to me precisely because it does not have onion, tomato or jalapeño! My husband HATES onion and tomato, and as I was making this for a potluck, any extra would be coming home, and I didn’t want to be the only one eating it! Anyways, I did end up putting cilantro in it, simply because I had already bought some, and I enjoy the flavor it imparts. This recipe was so simple and delicious, and there wasn’t much left to bring home!
Lyndsey Piccolino says
I'm so glad you liked it!!