Green Sauce With Avocado

Name: Green Sauce With Avocado
Total time: 15 min
Yield: About 2 1/2 cups
Cuisine: mexican
Ingredients: 2 garlic cloves, coarsely chopped; 1 1/2 teaspoons salt, or to taste; 1 small white onion, coarsely chopped; 2 fresh serrano or jalapeno chilies, or to taste, stemmed, seeded and coarsely chopped; 6 to 8 tomatillos (about 1/2 pound), husks removed, and quartered; 1 ripe avocado; 8 to 10 cilantro sprigs

Recipe from Zarela Martinez

Adapted by Mark Bittman

Total Time: 15 minutes
Rating: 4(9)
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Ingredients

Yield:About 2½ cups

2garlic cloves, coarsely chopped
1½teaspoons salt, or to taste
1small white onion, coarsely chopped
2fresh serrano or jalapeno chilies, or to taste, stemmed, seeded and coarsely chopped
6 to 8tomatillos (about ½ pound), husks removed, and quartered
1ripe avocado
8 to 10cilantro sprigs

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Preparation

Step 1
In a food processor or with mortar and pestle, process or pound the garlic and salt to a paste. Add onion, chilies and tomatillos; pulse in processor or pound to make a slightly chunky paste.
Step 2
Scoop out the avocado flesh. For a smooth machine-finished puree, add it and the cilantro to the processor and process very fine. To do it by hand, finely chop the avocado and mash it into the onion-tomatillo mixture; stir in cilantro leaves. (For a medium texture, pour the machine-processed onion-tomatillo mixture into a bowl, and mix in the chopped avocado and cilantro.)
Step 3
Serve immediately as a dip or a sauce with chips or vegetables.