This avocado crema recipe is a slightly spicy version of a delicious creamy tangy favorite! The combination of lime, garlic and a dash of chipotle in adobo sauce makes this sauce unique, and perfect on sandwiches, pasta, arepas, or your Tuesday night tacos.
All you need is 10 minutes and 5 ingredients, and you have a sauce you'll use on so many dishes.
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❤️ Why you'll love this recipe
- Make it in 10 minutes with 5 ingredients.
- No fancy ingredients.
- If you're a fan of guacamole, this is a creamy sauce version.
- There are so many ways to use it. See the below section on How to Use Avocado Cream.
🧅 Main Ingredients + Notes
The secret to faster and easier meals often lies in the ingredients. For example, store-bought items and ingredients you make ahead and store in the refrigerator (or freezer) can turn a 60-minute recipe into a 30-minutes meal or less.
All of the ingredients, measurements and directions for this creamy avocado sauce are in the Recipe Card at the bottom of this post.
- Avocados - fully ripe, but not overly soft. This is the main ingredient, obviously, so the avocados need to be very good quality.
- Light sour cream - you can use heavy sour cream, but I use the light version.
- Garlic cloves
- Fresh lime juice
- Chipotle peppers in adobo sauce
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🔪 Recommended Equipment
- Either a food processor, fitted with a metal blade or a high-speed blender
💡Ideas for Possible Variations
- Use plain Greek yogurt or store-bought traditional Mexican crema in place of the sour cream.
- Eliminate the chipotle peppers in adobo.
- Add fresh cilantro to the sauce.
- Jalapeño peppers are much less spicy than chipotle peppers in adobo, and are a great way to introduce a little heat to this creamy sauce. The one drawback is their firm texture. Therefore, I recommend roasting, seeding and peeling the pepper first. That way it will purée well into a creamy texture, rather than ending up with a sauce with some jalapeño chunks. Start with ½ jalapeño to start with, and add more according to your own preferences.
🍽 Ways to use avocado cream sauce
- Avocado cream sauce aka avocado crema goes great with most Tex-Mex and Mexican dishes. Drizzle on top of burritos, tacos, and southwestern salads (I like to use a squeeze bottle for this).
- Mix with a little olive oil to create a salad dressing.
- Add as a sandwich spread to arepas.
- Toss with pasta.
- Use as a dipping sauce for tortilla chips or roasted veggies, such as roasted bell peppers.
👩🍳 Storage Tips
Avocados turn brown through an oxidation process, so it's important to keep this sauce in an airtight container. Refrigerate and use within 4 days.
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Avocado Cream Sauce
Equipment
Ingredients
- 2 avocados
- 1 cup light sour cream or Mexican crema or Greek yogurt
- 2 garlic cloves peeled and smashed
- 2 tablespoons fresh lime juice
- ¼ teaspoon chipotle peppers in adobo sauce
- ¼ teaspoon kosher salt or a pinch of sea salt, to taste
Instructions
- Pit and scoop the avocados out of their skins. Transfer to a high speed bender, or the bowl of a food processor fitted with a metal blade. It's not necessary to cut up the avocados.
- Add the remaining ingredients to the blender with the avocado.
- Whirl like crazy until you have a smooth and creamy purée.
- Store in the refrigerator in an airtight container until you're ready to use it. Use within 4 days of making it.
lizthechef
Delightful - love this!
Jerry | Simply Good Eating
Avocado goodness like this is even more versatile then ever. I would love this as a sandwich spread or with some pasta. Yummy!
The Wimpy Vegetarian
I used it for so many things - I'm making more!
The Wimpy Vegetarian
BTW, Jerry, I just checked out your site! I love it!! I'm traveling right now, but when I get home tomorrow I'm going to spend more time going through it!
Maggie
Stick the acocado pit into the jar with the sauce, that will help keep it from turning.
The Wimpy Vegetarian
Oh my gosh - you know I read that some time ago, and completely forgot all about it! Thank you so much for the reminder. I'm traveling today, but I'm going to add that!!
mjskit
Sounds very tasty to me! I can't believe how creamy you got it. I want to stick my finger in the bowl. 🙂
Gisela duVigneau
Another great recipe!
I can't wait to make it for my family.
The Wimpy Vegetarian
Yay!!! I hope you enjoy it!!
Julia
By golly, I'd put this on everything! This avocado cream should be in every single breakfast burrito on the planet. Definitely! I adore chipotles in adobo and I can tell I'd addict myself to this sauce in an instant! 🙂
sunithi
Simple & lovely ! My kind of recipe. Have to pick up some avocados & try this !
EA-The Spicy RD
Looks delicious & I just pinned your Arepas recipe which looks amazing! Happy Cinco de Mayo and congrats on your new house. How exciting!!
Hannah
Love this, Susan! I have ripe avocados right now and I'm going to mix up a batch. I'm picturing egg salad...
Terra
Okay hubby and I are so making this delicious sauce this weekend, YUM! Thank you for sharing!!! I may need to use Greek yogurt, I can't eat a lot of sour cream. This looks fabulous! Hugs, Terra
Fig
This is wonderful. Must make! (thanks for sharing!)