Rob Gronkowski Combines 2 Game Day Dips For A Hearty Super Bowl Snack
When it comes to the Super Bowl, bigger means better. Bigger stakes, better players. Bigger audiences, better commercials. Bigger hype, better snacks. In preparing for this year's ultimate football match-up, Rob Gronkowski is bringing a bigger — and better — snack to chomp on at his watch party for the big game. Gronkowski, a former NFL tight-end, has collaborated with Avocados from Mexico, a marketing association that promotes Mexican avocados in the U.S., to introduce Gronkamole.
Gronkamole — Gronk's signature snack — is a mash-up of guacamole and buffalo chicken dip, two of the most popular eats on Super Bowl Sunday. The execution is simple, but the result is powerful. All it takes is mixing the ingredients for each respective dip in a shared bowl — a container of Gronkamole may be more of a super bowl than the Super Bowl itself.
This dish mashes the tangy bite and creamy texture from guacamole with the spice- and funk-forward overtones of buffalo chicken dip. No longer must guests pivot between two bowls when looking for the perfect accompaniment to a tortilla chip. Now, they can get all the flavor in one.
How to make Gronkamole as easily as possible
Super Bowl meals aren't meant to be complicated — they need to be hefty enough to feed hungry watchers but easy enough to much on while not distracting from an intense game. But that also means they need to pack bursts of flavor in small bites. As a hybrid of two jam-packed dips, Gronkamole brings the ease and the taste.
There are some short-cuts that home cooks can take to simplify preparing the dish even further and lighten the load of hosting a Super Bowl party. Instead of cooking an entire chicken from scratch, use a rotisserie chicken in the dip. Shredding pre-cooked chicken is a nifty hack for a buffalo chicken dip and it can be applied to Gronkamole as well. If you're looking to get some more flavor from the guacamole component of the dish, throw in pre-diced ingredients like pico de gallo to get a sweetness from the tomato and a bitter bite from the onion.