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Why You’ll Love My Recipe
What could possibly be better than the richness of avocado paired with sour cream? This avocado crema goes perfectly on enchiladas, tacos, nachos, steak, and just about anything that needs a little extra dash of vibrant flavor!
The only thing better than guacamole is this avocado crema! The mild flavor, silky smooth texture, and rich creaminess makes it the perfect accompaniment to any southwestern or Mexican dish!
Why not use this Avocado Crema to make some Shredded Chicken Tacos?
Karlynn’s Recipe Notes
- Skill Level: This avocado crema is so easy to make you’ll definitely be whipping it up for your next taco night!
- Total Time: This delicious sauce comes together in just 10 minutes!
- Variations: If you’re one of those people who cannot stand cilantro, feel free to either omit it or replace it with finely diced parsley or basil! You can also change up the flavors by adding more lime juice or sour cream, or adjusting the seasonings by adding more garlic, including chilies like chipotle or cayenne pepper, or spices like cumin!
- Tools For This Recipe: While you can use a molcajete or a mortar and pestle to make this recipe the traditional way, you can also use a food processor for greater convenience!
What You’ll Need for Ingredients
Avocados: When looking for a ripe avocado, don’t squeeze it! Look for a dark green skin and check the stem. If it’s easy to remove the little stem nub, and you see green underneath, the avocado is likely good to go right away.
Lime Juice: Freshly squeezed always tastes best! To get the most juice out of your limes, roll them on a cutting board or your countertop while pressing down on them with the weight of your palm!
Cilantro: This herb is commonly used in a lot of Mexican recipes, but feel free to substitute it for parsley or basil if you’re someone who dislikes the taste of cilantro!
Sour Cream: Feel free to use your preferred fat percentage of sour cream in this recipe, but don’t worry too much! Crema is meant to be used as an accompaniment, not eaten with a spoon, so you shouldn’t have to worry too much about calories!
How To Make Avocado Crema
This is a quick overview of the recipe. The full list of ingredients & complete step-by-step instructions are in the recipe card below.
- Place all of your ingredients into the bowl of a food processor and blend until smooth.
- Adjust the seasonings to your liking: add more lime juice to thin it out, more sour cream for more tang, more garlic, spices, or even a dash of your favorite hot sauce if you like!
Karlynn’s Tips and Tricks for the Perfect Avocado Crema
- Avoca-do’s and Don’ts: If you have a hard time finding ripe avocados at your local grocery store, don’t fear! You can speed up the ripening process by keeping it in a brown paper bag, which helps capture the ethylene that naturally gets released by fruit as it ripens. Adding an apple, banana, or kiwi to the bag with your avocado can help it ripen even faster, as the fruit will release more ethylene—you can go from a rock-hard avocado to a ripe, ready-to-go avocado in as little as two days!
- All Juiced Up: When you’re looking for limes at the store, check for fruit with thin, smooth, undimpled skin that feel heavy for their size! If they also feel a little soft when you give them a gentle squeeze, you’re most likely to get a good amount of juice when you’re ready to make your crema!
Storage Instructions
I don’t recommend freezing this recipe, as the sour cream will separate and the avocado’s texture will suffer. However, you can keep it in the refrigerator in an airtight container for up to 3 days, just make sure to press a piece of plastic wrap down onto the surface of the crema before sealing it up to help keep the surface from browning for as long as possible!
More Delicious Mexican-Inspired Recipes
- Chock full of beans, stewed tomatoes, and covered in melty cheese, my Mexican Bean Breakfast Skillet is an excellent hearty meal for breakfast or dinner!
- You just can’t go wrong with Classic Weeknight Tacos, especially when you can make your own taco seasoning!
- My Taco Soup recipe is perfect for a delicious and healthy dinner! You can even customize it by using a protein of your choice!
Avocado crema adds a little something special to tacos
Happy Cooking!
Karlynn
Avocado Crema
Avocado crema is a unique condiment in that it is essentially halfway between sour cream and guacamole yet is super smooth and delicate at the same time.
Made from just a few simple ingredients, this is the sort of topping that you want to adjust based on your individual taste preferences. Add or subtract any extra ingredients, as well as play around with the exact amounts, to create the perfect crema for your tacos!
Avocado Crema Ingredients
Make sure you look at the recipe card at the very bottom for the exact amounts so that you know exactly what to buy for this recipe.
• Ripe avocados pitted and interiors scooped out of the skin
• Sour cream
• Chopped cilantro
• Garlic cloves
• Lime juice
• Salt
How To Make Avocado Crema
• Place all of the ingredients in a food processor and blend until totally smooth
• Adjust the seasonings to your liking and then serve!
How To Shift The Flavors To Your Liking?
This recipe for avocado crema is one of those things that you really need to adjust to your liking to get it perfect.
If you are someone that prefers a more acidic flavor profile in your dishes, then add a little bit more lime juice. This will also help to thin it out and make it more liquid-y.
If you want that thinner, more liquid-y texture without more acidity, feel free to add a little bit of water.
For a more tang, slightly fatty flavor, add more sour cream, and add some more garlic if you want it to taste more like garlic!
You can also add a few extra spices in this to vary the flavor even more. Some dried chilies, like cayenne or even some chipotle, would be a great addition in this, or other Mexican-themed spices like cumin which would help make the whole thing feel more like it belongs in a Mexican dish.
Why Does Cilantro Not Taste Good In This Recipe For You?
This recipe, like many Mexican dishes, uses some chopped cilantro as one of the principal flavoring ingredients. However, something that a lot of people find when they use cilantro is that it tastes super weird.
Those people that find that cilantro tastes bad usually uniformly find that it tastes almost soapy; why does this happen?
Interestingly enough, it is actually entirely to do with genetics! It turns out that you either love cilantro, or you absolutely hate it, and it is only to do with your genetics and genetic ancestry.
This is why cilantro is so polarizing and is nothing to do with preference.
If you find that you are one of those people that cannot stand cilantro, feel free to either omit it entirely from this recipe or replace it with some finely diced basil or parsley instead to get the same fresh and green flavor and color.
Looking for more delicious Dinner recipes? Try these out:
• Mexican Bean Breakfast Skillet
Happy Cooking
Love,
Karlynn
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Avocado Crema
Ingredients
- 2 large ripe avocados, pitted and interiors scooped out of the skin
- 1/2 cup sour cream
- 1/2 cup fresh chopped cilantro
- 2 cloves garlic
- 2 tbsp lime juice, more to thin as needed
- 1/2 tsp salt to taste
Instructions
- Place all of the ingredients in a food processor and blend until smooth.
- Adjust the seasonings to your liking: add more lime juice to thin it out, more sour cream for more tang, garlic etc.
Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Linda vandijk says
Can you let know how many it serves pls