Bangkok Guac

Recipe by: Leslie Brenner

This may sound a little crazy, but the Thai flavors of lemongrass, makrut lime and fish sauce complement avocado astonishingly well. That’s the idea behind this Thai-inspired spin on guacamole — which is delicious scooped up with shrimp chips. If it’s hard to find fresh Thai ingredients where you live, it might be a bit insane to try to gather them all to make this, but if you happen to be gathering them to make actual Thai dishes and have these ingredients on hand, it’s absolutely worth it.

If you have a convenient Asian supermarket, you can probably find lemongrass there, and maybe makrut lime leaves, and sometimes they even stock lemongrass at better conventional supermarkets. Makrut limes themselves can be much harder to find; they are available (along with the leaves and lemongrass) through several online purveyors, including Angkor Food website (which specializes in Cambodian foods). If you…