Mexican Food Appetizers - Easy Guacamole Recipe

Whether you are hosting a casual or a formal affair, your party appetizers are meant to get your evening off to a lively start, and there is no better way to achieve that than by serving some traditional Mexican food appetizers.

Our easy guacamole recipe will have your party sizzling before you can even say 'ole'!! Serve your spicy Mexican food appetizers with some cool Mexican-themed cocktails. A great Guacamole dip is perfectly paired with a chilled Margarita.

Our easy guacamole recipe takes only a few minutes to prepare, leaving you plenty of time to prepare a variety of other Mexican food appetizers for your soiree!

Easy Guacamole Recipe

3 ripe avocados
Juice of 2 limes
2 tblsp (30 ml) chopped cilantro
1/2 sweet red pepper, finely diced
2 tblsp (30 ml) olive oil
Salt and Tabasco sauce to taste

Peel the avocados, remove the pits and chop into chunks.
In a food processor, blend the avocado, lime juice, cilantro, chopped sweet pepper, olive oil and seasoning.

Serve Guacamole dip with nachos or tortillas.

Enjoy!

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Make Ahead Appetizers - Mexican Dip

With Halloween behind us and the holiday entertaining season fast approaching, the staff at Appetizers Unlimited are busy searching for some new great make ahead appetizers to help you save precious time on your hectic party day. Make ahead appetizers are absolutely essential to keep you relaxed and organized during the busy entertaining season.

Our collection of Kraft Appetizer recipes once again provides the ideas for our upcoming series of holiday make ahead appetizers, this time with a twist on some popular and easy Mexican food appetizers.

The first of our make ahead appetizers in our Mexican Food Appetizers series is this sinfully easy Mexican Dip. This appetizer recipe can be put together in the morning, covered and refrigerated until ready to microwave.

Mexican Dip

Ingredients:
1 pkg. (250 g) brick cream cheese
1/4 cup salsa
1/4 cup Tex Mex shredded cheese
2 Tbsp. sliced pitted black olives (optional)
1 Tbsp. chopped cilantro

Directions:
PLACE unwrapped block of cream cheese on microwaveable plate; top with salsa, shredded cheese and olives.
MICROWAVE on high 45 sec. to 1 min. or until Cheddar cheese is melted; sprinkle with cilantro.
SERVE with a selection of crackers.

Jazz It Up
Spoon 1/2 cup refried beans over the cream cheese before topping with the salsa, shredded cheese and olives. Microwave on high 1 min. or until Cheddar cheese is melted. Continue as directed.

Enjoy!

Recipe courtesy Kraft Kitchens.

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