Make our favorite avocado sauce, Avocado Crema, a tasty recipe to spice up any Mexican-inspired dish. Made with fresh avocados, Mexican crema, lime juice, and cilantro, this light and creamy sauce will add a burst of flavor to your weekday menu.
Why This Recipe is the Best
This avocado crema is smooth, tangy, and packed with fresh flavor-perfect for elevating any meal. It's incredibly versatile, pairing well with tacos, burritos, bowls, grilled meats, and even seafood. We especially love it for special occasions like Cinco de Mayo when we need a quick, crowd-pleasing topping that takes everything up a notch. Once you try it, you'll want to drizzle it on just about everything.
Try our other Mexican-inspired sauces like Smoky Red Pepper Crema, and Cilantro Lime Crema Sauce. Or our avocado lime ranch dressing.
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Key Ingredients
We love the fresh ingredients used for this recipe. If you need to substitute anything, look to our substitution and variation section for ideas.
- Avocados- Make sure they are ripe or even overripe in order to get that creamy texture you want.
- Mexican Crema- This sour cream-like dairy product is made with heavy cream and buttermilk and is the base of the sauce while adding a tangy taste.
How to Make Avocado Crema
Use these step-by-step instructions to help you have success with this recipe. Use the pictures for clarity and texture.
- Add peeled and pitted avocados to a food processor.
- Add lime juice to the high-speed blender with the avocados.
- Next, you will add Mexican crema, salt, pepper, and garlic to the high-speed blender or food processor.
- Blend altogether until smooth.
Hint: Make sure to use ripe or overripe Avocados. This will help give the right texture. If the avocado is less ripe, it won't mix as well with the other ingredients and may leave chunks.
Common Mistakes
A few common mistakes when making avocado crema include forgetting to thaw frozen avocado before blending, which can lead to a chunky texture. Some also skip adjusting the consistency-if you're using it as a salad dressing, be sure to add a splash of milk until it reaches your desired pourable texture.
Finally, don't feel locked into one base-this recipe works great with sour cream, Mexican crema, or Greek yogurt, so use what you prefer or have available.
Top tip
Make sure to blend until completely smooth. You want the consistency to be like a creamy sauce or dressing.
Recipe
Avocado Crema Sauce
Equipment
- 1 Food Processor or blender
Ingredients
- 2 avocados ripe or overripe
- ½ cup Mexican Crema sour cream or greek yogurt or sour cream
- 1 teaspoon minced garlic
- 3 Tablespoons lime juice about 2 limes
- ¼ teaspoon salt if not using Mexican Crema, use ½ teaspoon
- 1/16 teaspoon pepper
- 2 Tablespoons cilantro optional
Instructions
- Juice limes and remove skins from avocados. Place all ingredients in a food processor and blend until smooth.
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Notes
- This recipe yields about 1 ¾ cups Avocado Crema
- Use any combination of Mexican Crema, plain Greek yogurt and/or sour cream
- The Mexican Crema sour cream has added salt, if using plain Greek yogurt or sour cream or regular Mexican Crema, increase the salt by ¼ teaspoon, or add to taste.
- Try with 2-4 Tablespoons chopped cilantro for a delicious twist
- Add 1 teaspoon red pepper flakes for a spicy alternative
- Garlic Powder- Instead of minced garlic you can use garlic powder for ease and convenience.
- Spicy- Red pepper flakes can be added, a teaspoon at a time, to add some heat. Also try adding half a jalapeno to the blender for some added heat and flavor. You may even enjoy hot sauce like Tapatio sauce or sriracha.
- Salsa-Add a cup of your favorite salsa to make Avocado Crema Salsa.
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Substitutions and Variations
Use these ideas to help make this recipe your own. You can make this a dairy-free and vegan option, or add more flavor!
- Mayo- Make this recipe with mayo. We suggest using half mayo and half sour cream or Mexican crema if you're using these substitutions.
- Vegan/Dairy Free- Make with no sour cream, and make it a vegan and dairy-free option by using a vegan sour cream or vegan/dairy-free plain yogurt. You can also grind cashews to a paste instead of using sour cream.
- Cilantro- We love the taste of cilantro, and it can really add to the flavor of this Avocado Crema. Blend in a small amount of cilantro at a time until you get the flavor you like.
- Tomatillo-Blend in a tomatillo when blending in the other ingredients for added flavor.
- Greek yogurt-Instead of sour cream or Mexican creama, substitute plain Greek yogurt.
How to Serve
- Serve with a variety of different meals like salmon meatballs, air fryer turkey meatballs, steak, and pasta dishes!
- We love making this with our sweet potato black bean burritos and enchiladas.
- Super bowls and other big game days are a perfect time to eat make this easy sauce. It can be drizzled on appetizers and chicken wings.
- Taco Tuesday is our go-to with this sauce. We love it with our air fryer tacos, and Arepa Con Quesos.
- Drizzle this on air fryer jerk tacos, birria quesadillas, or air fryer taquitos for a full flavor profile.
Storing Avocado Crema
Store Avocado Crema in an air tight container in the refrigerator for up to 10 days. Make sure the container stays air tight for optimal freshness.
This recipe does not freeze and thaw well. Dairy often has a hard time keeping its original texture when thawed.
FAQ
Avocado cream is tasty sauce or dressing made with ripe avocados, Mexican crema, lime juice, and minced garlic.
If sealed in an air tight container, you can store it in the fridge for 10 days. It last a long time and can be used on so many dishes.
To make this tasty sauce you will need to add avocados, Mexican crema, garlic, and lime juice to a blender and blend. Make sure it's blended well and smooth before serving.
Andrea says
Love this avocado cream sauce. It is so good on everything. We put it on burgers, salmon and tacos! Super easy to make the best recipe I've tried.
Nicole says
Mmm we love this avocado crema. It's the perfect cream sauce and we love it on quesadillas and burritos.