A dip made with mashed avocados, mixed with onions, chiles, lemon juice, cilantro, salt and chopped tomato. Served with tortilla chips, tacos, burritos, enchiladas, potato skins, or eaten by itself as a salad.
Although avocado has been used in English since the seventeenth century, guacamole, the name of a green paste made from avocados, did not appear until the early twentieth century. Guacamole derives from two words in the Nahuatl language: ahuacatl, meaning testicle, which is what the Aztecs thought the avocado resembled, and molli, meaning sauce.
A mixture of avocado blended with onion juice, lemon juice, Tabasco sauce, pimento, and other ingredients, utilized as a condiment for cocktails, a dressing for salads, or as a topping for various dishes.