Make a 4-ingredient guacamole recipe with ripe avocados, a splash of lime juice, a pinch of salt, and your favorite salsa for an impressively quick, easy, and totally delicious summer snack or topping. You only need the ingredients, a spoon, and one bowl before the chunky avocado dip is ready to enjoy.

Easy Guacamole Recipe with Salsa
In general, homemade guacamole is pretty easy to make. However, if you want to expedite the prep time and avoid all the chopping – you’ll love this easy salsa guacamole recipe.
Mixing salsa with mashed avocado is a shortcut that avoids you needing to chop (or buy) tomatoes, onion, garlic, and cilantro individually. Plus, you can easily customize it to your favorite flavors. What’s your favorite salsa? Mild, sweet, smoky, or spicy? Any type will work here.
Serve guacamole with a full taco bar, Instant Pot chicken fajitas dinner, veggie sticks, or tortilla chips. This is one of the best things for summer snacking and poolside afternoons. Guacamole is also great with omelets, burgers, tacos, burritos, and fajitas. It pairs well with fish, chicken, pork, and beef. You can’t go wrong!
This is also an easy guacamole recipe for nachos. Since you’ll already have the salsa for nachos, just add a spoon or two to the avocado, and you’ll have guacamole ready instantly.

How to Make Guacamole with Salsa
Gather four ingredients and mix a healthy guacamole recipe in 10 minutes or less!
Ingredients in Guacamole
Avocado – Choose ripe, buttery avocados like the Hass variety. Four avocados weigh roughly 2 pounds.
Lime juice – You only need the juice from one-half of one lime.
Salt – A pinch of sea salt is perfect.
Salsa – In my opinion, a chunky fresh salsa like pico de Gallo is ideal. Drain the juices as you scoop out the salsa, leaving as much as possible in the jar. For a mild guacamole recipe, use mild salsa. Pretty easy, right? If you like hot and spicy flavors, use a hot and spicy salsa instead. Temper the heat of spicy peppers and easily adjust for your preference.
Step-By-Step Directions
Guacamole is a very forgiving recipe which makes it great for people who don’t like to follow directions and children just learning their way around in the kitchen. It’s usually fine to eyeball the ingredients once you’ve made it a few times and have a general idea of how it should turn out. Then, feel free to taste test as often as you need and adjust the salt, lime juice, or salsa as you like best.
Mash the avocado base
Half each avocado and remove the pits. Scoop the meat out and place in a medium-sized mixing bowl. Discard the pits and skins (or save to use in a dye bath for a beautiful mauve color).
Add salt and lime juice. If you don’t already know how to properly juice a lime, learn how to squeeze the most juice with one simple must-know process.
Mash with a fork or pastry cutter (also called a pastry blender) until chunky.
Add the salsa
Add the salsa. Stir gently to combine.
Taste and adjust as you see fit.
Guacamole will oxidize quickly once the avocado gets exposed to air. If you see the top start to turn brow, you can scoop it off and discard it. If there is only a little bit, mix the brownish parts back into the bottom layers.
I recommend following this food storage tip for completely pushing out all the air from the container, and you’ll completely avoid having the guac turn brown.
Nutritional Info
This recipe yields 8 servings. Each serving contains the following nutrient profile.
- 166 calories
- 2 protein
- 15 fat
- 10 total carbs
- 7 fiber
- 3 net carbs
Please note that the nutritional value will change if you substitute ingredients. Use a nutrition app to recalculate and reflect your changes.

Guacamole with Salsa Recipe FAQ
Guacamole tastes like ripe, buttery avocado with accents from add-ins: lime juice, salt, and salsa. Salsa has a variety of formulations, from sweet and mild to smoky and spicy hot. Pick your favorite, and all those flavors will transfer to the guacamole also.
Yes, guacamole is naturally gluten-free, and homemade versions are always 100% gluten-free. However, it’s always a good idea to review the ingredient list if you’re buying ready-made guac from the grocery store. Confirming there aren’t any hidden ingredients you would rather avoid only takes a few seconds. And then you know you’re in the clear.
No, guacamole is traditionally dairy-free. An exception could be if cheese is added, but that only happens on a rare occasion. This recipe is dairy-free and a great choice for people with dairy sensitivity but love Mexican food.
Generally, one-half an avocado per person is a suitable serving of guacamole. For that reason, this recipe with four ripe avocados yields eight servings of guacamole.
Typical guidelines indicate guacamole is best at room temperature for up to two hours before it should be refrigerated. The hotter (higher) the temperature, the more quickly the food can spoil.

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Guacamole with Salsa Recipe

Make a 4-ingredient guacamole recipe with ripe avocados, a splash of lime juice, a pinch of salt, and your favorite salsa for an impressively quick, easy, and totally delicious summer snack or topping. You only need the ingredients, a spoon, and one bowl before the chunky avocado dip is ready to enjoy.
Ingredients
- 4 ripe avocados
- ½ lime, squeezed (1 tablespoon lime juice)
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ cup fresh salsa
Instructions
- Halve each avocado and remove the pits. Scoop the meat out and place it in a medium-sized mixing bowl.
- Add salt and lime juice.
- Mash with a fork or pastry cutter until chunky.
- Add the salsa. Stir gently to combine.
Notes
Best served immediately. See notes in post text for storage details.
There are more important notes and tips shared in the post above. I highly recommend you read the whole post before making the recipe!
Nutrition Information:
Yield:
8Serving Size:
1Amount Per Serving: Calories: 166Total Fat: 15gSaturated Fat: 2gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 12gCholesterol: 0mgSodium: 268mgCarbohydrates: 10gNet Carbohydrates: 3gFiber: 7gSugar: 1gProtein: 2g
Anna
Monday 10th of October 2022
This was a great guacamole, so easy and quick to make, and just perfect with some fries or nachos! My and my partner loved it!
Jessica Haggard
Tuesday 11th of October 2022
I love it with nachos too! Feel free to add a bookmark for my site for more easy recipes ;)
Hayley
Monday 10th of October 2022
So fresh and refreshing gucamole, bonus is that only made with 4 ingredients! This girl is happy :)
Kristina
Sunday 9th of October 2022
Of all the variations for guacamole out there this is one of my favorites. Using salsa eliminates the need to chop up tomatoes, onions and cilantro and is such as easy way to still make a delicious chunky guac.
Jessica Haggard
Tuesday 11th of October 2022
Quick, right?!
Cathleen
Saturday 8th of October 2022
Okay, this guacamole recipe is my new favourite!! I am so excited to make it for Canadian Thanksgiving on Monday. Thank you so much for sharing :)
Jessica Haggard
Tuesday 11th of October 2022
Hi Cathleen, thanks! Hope you had a lovely holiday :)
amy liu dong
Saturday 8th of October 2022
One of the easy, most delicious, and healthy dips to make. I really love it! Thank you!