Jicama & Guacamole
Recipe by Carley Nadine
Ingredients
5
Serves
4
This combination is the perfect snack filled with lots of fibre and healthy fats. It’s a fun and delicious way to try a different vegetable and add a little variety into your diet. What is Jicama? It’s a root vegetable traditionally grown in Mexico and Central America. The taste is juicy and crunchy, with a slightly sweet flavour. The taste resembles a cross between a potato and a pear.
Gluten-Free
Snack
Appetizer
Ingredients
3
Avocado
1large
Jicama
1
Lime
1/4tsp
Sea Salt
1
Garlic Clove
Instructions
1
Cut your avocados in half, remove the pit, and remove the avocado from the skin. Add to a medium sized bowl and mash the avocado with a fork.
2
Add a crushed garlic clove, fresh lime juice and salt to taste. Mix until combined.
3
Cut the jicama in half and then cut off the skin. Then cut it lengthwise then cut again into thick strips.
4
Dip the jicama in to guacamole and enjoy!
5
Substitutions: Don’t like garlic? Omit it, add diced onion or a pinch of garlic powder. Don’t have lime? You can use lemon instead. Like some heat? Add some hot sauce or jalapeño.
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Carley is a Toronto based Holistic Nutritionist and Wellness Consultant. She believes that health involves SO much more than just nutritious food and supplements-such as mindfulness, mindset, connection with nature and community. She believes deeply in educating and empowering people — especially women — to take their health and well-being into their own hands. So that they can live a happy, balanced and abundant life.
