“Anytime is Guac Time” Contest Winners

Congratulations to the winners of the Anytime is Guac Time Recipe Contest! 🎉 For this contest, we wanted to highlight the year-round availability of Avocados From Mexico by challenging our chef community to show us their favorite guac recipes that they enjoy all year long. 10 lucky chefs have each won a Chef’s Roll swag pack with our Grand Prize Winner additionally taking home a custom blade from Meglio Knives featuring an avocado wood handle. Congrats, chefs!


GRAND PRIZE WINNER

receives a blade from Meglio Knives featuring an avocado wood handle and a Chef’s Roll swag pack


Chef Antonio Wormley

Bone Marrow / Guac / Beef Tallow Breadcrumbs / Pickled Red Onions / Cilantro


FINALISTS

each receives a Chef’s Roll swag pack!


Chef Toni Thomas

Elote guacamole, avocado cilantro purée, avocado jalapeño cream, charred sweet corn, radish, pickled red onion, queso fresco, queso fresco crisp, & crispy avocado.


Chef Rosalie P

Vietnamese Lotus Root Salad with Shrimp & Nước Mắm Guacamole— shredded lotus root, pickled carrots, cucumber, poached shrimp, red onions, avocados, fish sauce, lime, sambal chili paste, garlic, cilantro, crushed peanuts, fried shallots.


Chef Chris

Fresh avocado salad with scallops. The avocado salad is topped with Serrano/habanero peppers, tomato, radish, and dill. The scallops were cooked in brown butter and placed over a lemon tequila foam with lemon zested over them.


Sacramento Medicated Meals

Rustic Confit Guacamole Toast / Shichimi / Pickled Onion


Chef Carolina A

Layer of Purple potatoes, Spicy plantains, Guacamole, shrimp. Avocado relish, Guacamole, Avocado Foam, Avocado quenelle, citrus caviar pearls , Peruvian Yellow Pepper Sauce. Shrimps were marinate with Aji Mirasol Leche de Tigre and grilled in cast iron skillet.


Chef Noelia Mastrangelo

Guacamole croquettes — creamy guacamole coated with crumbled tortilla and plantain chips fried to a golden brown and served with fresh pico de gallo and house made salsa.


Chef Erin Hungsberg

Bacon Egg & Guac Croissant Sandwich — Homemade Croissant “Squared” / Woven Bacon / Custardy Baked Eggs / Homemade Guacamole with Red Onion & Pomegranate / Wisconsin Pepper Jack Cheese Skirt


Chef Tyler Despain

Rice paper Laab Taco with a Fish Sauce and Coconut Vinegar Guacamole


Chef Matai Lundy

Guacamole puréed with coconut milk foam ceviche over herb crostinis


Thanks to everyone who participated in this contest. You can see all the incredible entries created for this contest at #GuacAnytimeContest on Instagram!