It's National Avocado Day, and so we dug up this guac recipe from a classic, long-gone Milwaukee restaurant.
Do you remember El Condor, the Peruvian restaurant on Downer Avenue that during the ‘80s was below the space currently occupied by Café Hollander? (It was a laundromat called the Wash Tub back then.)
El Condor was one of Milwaukee’s few "walk-down restaurants" and also had food carts that workers pushed around the East Side. El Condor was known for, among other offerings, its great guacamole.
Here's the recipe:
Chunky Guacamole El Condor
Ingredients:
• 5 ripe avocados, cubed
• 1 1/2 tsp. salt
• 2 tsp. pepper
• 2 limes, juiced
• 1 tbl. vinegar
• 3 tsp. chopped cilantro
• 1 tbl. oil
• 1 small onion, chopped
• 1 or 2 jalapenos
• 2 small tomatoes, chopped
Directions:
Mix, taste, adjust accordingly if needed and serve with lots of tortilla chips.
Molly Snyder started writing and publishing her work at the age 10, when her community newspaper printed her poem, "The Unicorn.” Since then, she's expanded beyond the subject of mythical creatures and written in many different mediums but, nearest and dearest to her heart, thousands of articles for OnMilwaukee.
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