Who doesn't like a good guacamole? Easy and fun for kids to help prepare, guacamole is also filled with vitamins and nutrients that kids need. When you show them how an avocado can be used in so many ways and within many different dishes, they will want to try and make it themselves!
Guacamole is a traditional Mexican side dish or appetizer. Just don't tell your kids they are actually eating a fruit!
Guacanstein is a fun name for this popular dish and makes it more appealing to young children who like to associate story or fantasy based characters with food. This side dish is called Guacanstein because you are flattening the Guacamole into a elongated rectangular shape on a square tray and then adding blue corn tortilla chips all around the top, to simulate the Frankenstein "hair."
Ingredients:
1 cup chopped or cubed avocado
1 tbsp of taco sauce (omit if you do not want to make a spicy Guacanstein- or use a mild mixture)
1 black olive cut in half
1 tbsp of plain yogurt
2 slices of mushrooms
1 tsp of lime juice
1 tsp of lemon juice
1 1/2 cups of tortilla chips (blue corn preferred, but you can use yellow as well for blonde "hair")
1. Mash avocado, lime/lemon juice and a 1/8 tsp of sea salt with a fork.
2. Spread avocado mixture on a serving tray, into a rectangular shape
3. Place or pipe half a tbsp of the plain yogurt onto the avo mixture, to make 'eyeballs."
4. Place the sliced black olive atop each eye to make "pupils."
5. Use the taco sauce or to make the mouth.
6. Add one mushroom to the bottom of each side of the avocado rectangle to make "bolts."
7. Place tortilla chips all around the top of the rectangle, to make "hair."
Remove "hair" one piece at a time (or use carrots or other chips) to use to dip into your Guacanstein, in case you prefer to keep the hair in place!
Enjoy!
