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    Avocado Crema

    Apr 30, 2025 · Leave a Comment

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    If you enjoy avocados, this is a fabulous & easy recipe to elevate so many foods and bonus! It's a delicious avocado dip too! Avocado Crema is light, flavorful and pairs well with so many meats!

    Avocado Crema shown in glass jar

    This Avocado Crema Recipe can be made in minutes! It will enhance steak, seafood, burgers and more! It is also tasty enough to be serves as a light dip recipe. Every time I serve this, people love it and ask about it.

    If you like avocados and the the idea of this you'll love this Creamy Avocado Pasta.

    Table of Contents

    • What is Avocado Crema?
    • Uses
    • Ingredients
    • Tips
    • Storage
    • Other Avocado Recipes to try
    • Avocado Crema
      • Ingredients  1x2x3x
      • Instructions 
      • Notes
      • Nutrition

    What is Avocado Crema?

    Avocado Cream or avocado cream is a condiment often used alongside Mexican cuisine. Think of it as a flavored sour cream. Anything you would use sour cream for you can pretty much use this with. It's fresh & delicious!

    Avocado Crema is a light, fresh & tasty condiment, that is quick and easy to make that goes well with a variety of foods.

    Uses

    • Top steak (like shown below), use on in burritos, fish tacos, or any type of taco as a topping or condiment.
    • Serve alongside any grilled meat or fish.
    • Delicious as a topping on a burrito bowl, salmon bowl, grilled chicken bowl or fajita bowl.
    • Enjoy this as a straight up avocado dip with tortilla chips, pita chips, vegetables, etc. Its one of my favorite dips when served cold and spiced up with cayenne pepper.
    • This is a great addition to breakfast toast topped with an egg, think of it as a lighter, fluffier avocado toast.
    Avocado Crema over sliced grilled steak

    Ingredients

    • Avocados
    • Greek yogurt & sour cream 
    • Fresh garlic, fresh cilantro, fresh jalapeno
    • Fresh lime
    • Kosher salt and pepper, cayenne pepper for added heat & cumin

    Tips

    • Use ripe avocados for the creamiest eating experience.
    • Look for the nub of the avocado stem, if it comes off easily its a sign the avocado is ripe.
    • The skin should be dark green and when pressed it should have some give.
    • To help ripen a hard avocado, leave it in a warm sunny spot for a couple of days.
    • If your avocados are ripe or just about rip, you can always place them in the refrigerator to halt the ripening process for a day or two.
    • I have always liked adding some Greek yogurt to this for extra protein, however you can also make this with just sour cream. I do recommend full fat sour cream.
    • I like mine on the thicker side, however feel free to thin it out a bit with additional fresh lime juice or water.

    This is also wonderful on its own as a dip with tortilla chips! Always a hit when I serve it.

    Avocado Crema Recipe shown with tortilla chips for dipping

    Storage

    • This Avocado Crema will keep in the fridge if stored properly for a few days.
    • Store in a bowl, covered with plastic wrap pressed against the crema. The less air that gets to it the less likley it is to discolor.
    • Some chefs and home cooks store this (making it thinner with a bit of water), in a squeeze bottle. Making is easy to use to garnish a plate of finished food or tacos.
    • Store in a mason jar that is the same size as the amount of avocado cream (less air).
    • If any spot is discolored when you pull it out to use, simple scrape it off an enjoy the rest.

    Other Avocado Recipes to try

    • Chipotle Grilled Steak with Avocado Cream A delicious way to enjoy a steak!
      Chipotle Grilled Steak with Avocado Cream
    • Mexican Street Corn Salad featuring avocados Cojita cheese, Mexican table cream & a Spicy Creamy Guacamole Dip Drizzle
      Mexican Street Corn Salad with Avocado
    • Avocado Crab Cake Sandwich With Bacon & Spicy Avocado Remoulade
    • Pulled Pork Stuffed Avocado
      Pulled Pork Stuffed Avocados

    I first shared this recipe in another recipe as a garnish back in 2012. I thought it was time to give it its own recipe page, it's that tasty 🙂 Enjoy! XO Colleen

    Colleen Kennedy is the author of 3 cookbooks and has appeared on QVC and other shows inspiring home cooks of all levels. She has a popular TikTok channel @ColleensCooking with hundreds of short recipe videos. Colleen lives in Pennsylvania with her husband and kids, she started the food blog, Soufflé Bombay in 2009. Read more about her here.

    Avocado Crema shown in a jar alongside fresh avocado halves and a sliced lime

    Avocado Crema

    Colleen Kennedy
    This easy Avocado Crema recipe is so light and flavorful. Avocado Crema pairs well with steak, chicken and more. Its also delicious used as a light avocado dip with chips too!
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    Course Appetizer, Side Dish
    Cuisine Mexican, mexican american
    Servings 6 servings
    Calories 242 kcal

    Ingredients
      

    • 3 ripe avocados
    • 6 oz plain Greek yogurt
    • 6 oz sour cream For this full fat sour cream is best in my opinion
    • 2 cloves of garlic
    • handful of cilantro leaves If you dislike cilantro, you can leave it out an or swap for some parsley.
    • ½ a jalapeno pepper, chopped Ff you like spicy feel free to add the whole jalapeno BUT always test your jalapeno for how hot it is, you just never know!
    • 2 TBS fresh lime juice Fresh lime is best
    • pinch or two of cumin
    • Kosher salt and pepper taste don't be shy with the salt
    • Optional cayenne pepper for added heat

    Instructions
     

    • Place ingredients into your food processor (or blender) and pulse until you get your desired consistency.
    • Taste and then adjust seasoning to your liking (more heat or more salt etc.
    • Scrape in to your serving bowl.
    • Serve right away or cover very tightly with plastic wrap (you want the wrap to touch the dip) and chill for 20-30 minutes. Serve with tortilla chips, pita chips or veggies.

    Notes

    If your avocados were in the refrigerator, you can serve this dip right away. If not, you may want to chill it for 20-30 minutes. Press plastic wrap firmly against the top of the dip.
    If any area of the dip browns, simply scrape away for aesthetics. If covered tightly this will hold up pretty well for a day or more.
    Dip can easily be halved. Use 2 avocados, and halve the rest of the ingredients. Adjust seasonings and lime for taste.

    Nutrition

    Serving: 6servingsCalories: 242kcalCarbohydrates: 12gProtein: 6gFat: 21gSaturated Fat: 5gPolyunsaturated Fat: 2gMonounsaturated Fat: 11gCholesterol: 18mgSodium: 28mgPotassium: 536mgFiber: 7gSugar: 3gVitamin A: 355IUVitamin C: 14mgCalcium: 77mgIron: 1mg
    Keyword Avocado cream, Avocado Crema, Avocado Crema Recipe
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