Glen Powell's 1-Ingredient Upgrade for Guacamole—It's Very Texan

It's in your pantry.

Ever wish your guacamole carried a bit of heat or spice, enough to tickle your tastebuds and perhaps make you sweat a little? Well, I do. Don’t get me wrong—zesty and refreshing guacamole is perfect as it is. Still, it doesn’t hurt to heat things up a tad and make that guac even more craveable.

Glen Powell, one of America’s favorite Texans, does just that. Powell recently revealed that his guacamole is always homemade, and he adds hot sauce to make it spicier. “You can’t ever do store-bought guac. You gotta go homemade, whether you’re making it or you find a friend to make it,” he told Adria Arjona on First We Feast.

I dug deeper, but alas, I could not uncover Powell’s favorite brand of hot sauce. I assume it’s from Texas. However, I did discover that he stocks up on homemade hot sauce by his sister, Lauren. Since I don’t know Lauren or have access to her hot sauce, I turned to my pantry and refrigerator, stocked with some of America’s favorite hot sauces like Tabasco and sriracha, and made some guacamole.

How To Add Hot Sauce to Your Guac

As a Vietnamese Cantonese American who grew up squirting sriracha over pho (and everything else), I made my homemade guacamole spicier by mixing in a generous squeeze of sriracha, or about one tablespoon per cup of guac. If you use a spicier hot sauce, start with less. You can always add more if the guac isn't spicy enough. Add the hot sauce when you squeeze in the lime juice. Then, grab your favorite chip to dip into your spicy guacamole. Powell’s go-to chips are Siete grain-free tortilla chips.

You’ll probably find yourself double-dipping, reaching for a glass of milk, and repeating the process. Humans happily burn their tastebuds with spice because the heat prompts our bodies to release endorphins, which in turn lights up the pleasure centers in our brains. Powell gets it. When talking to Men’s Health He says about his sister’s homemade hot sauce, “It’s good to sweat in the morning, from the inside and out…”

So, the next time you're whipping up a fresh batch of guacamole, take a page out of Powell’s book and spice things up with your favorite hot sauce—whether it’s homemade, a Texas staple, or a bottle of sriracha from your pantry.

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