The tendency to mix contrast products is traced in the cookbooks of all nations. And, most likely, if there had been written language in the Neolithic, a similar recipe would have survived to our days.
But what to expect from a mixture of avocado with shrimp? The first was entrenched with the glory of the world's fattest fruit. Shrimps, like other seafood, are considered in our country an attribute of luxury and sophisticated glamor. This is a delicate component that is used in expensive salads. But both shrimp and avocado are reputed to be powerful aphrodisiacs. Therefore, snacks from them are often served during a romantic dinner for two. Well, we light candles, turn on muffled music, put a couple of devices on the table and start cooking dishes that simply push the people who are dining in each other's arms. Below you will find a selection of recipes for various snacks, where shrimp and avocado play a major role.
Product Preparation
Nowadays, you can buy both freshly frozen seafood and boiled. And before we start making any snacks or salads with shrimp and avocados, you need to be able to cook them. Seafood is mainly made up of protein. Therefore, the longer you cook them, the harder they will become. Shrimps, so that they remain really tender and juicy, you need to cook not "hard boiled", but, so to speak, "soft-boiled". We put a pot of water on the fire. Wash the raw shrimp. When the water boils, salt it, add the bay leaf, a couple of peas of pepper, pour the juice of one lemon. Throw shrimp. Cooking time depends on the size of the crustaceans. Raw large shrimps cook 8 minutes, medium - five. And if you bought a package of boiled and newly frozen seafood, measure exactly two minutes. Do not rush to catch crustaceans with a slotted spoon. Let them still swim in hot water - so their meat will become juicier.
With avocados, things are much simpler. If the fruit is ripe, then with the separation of the pulp from the skin, problems will not arise. Cut the fetus in half as soon as possible. Rotate in halves until they separate. We hit hard on the bone with the handle of a knife. Then we press on it with your finger and fidget until the flesh gives the seed away. If we want to keep the avocado skin for serving in the “boats”, carefully cut the pulp into cubes. Poke a tablespoon and push the pieces onto a plate. But you should know that peeling an avocado is at the very end, because the flesh of the fruit darkens in the air.
Classic salad
This gourmet meal for a romantic evening is served in boats. But first, boil the shrimp and peel them completely (even tails). Seafood should be absolutely ready to eat. If you bought already boiled and peeled shrimp, they should be properly thawed. The slower this process takes place, the more nutrients will remain inside the crustaceans. Transfer the bag first from the freezer to the refrigerator, and then pour its contents into a colander to let the melted ice stack.
To get beautiful boats from avocado with shrimp, you need to cut along two fruits and remove the seeds. We cut the pulp into cubes to the size of the shrimp. Armed with a tablespoon, we push its tip into the narrow pole of the avocado half. Mix the cubes of pulp and shrimp. Sprinkle with two tablespoons of lemon juice, salt and pepper. Dress salad with mayonnaise. It can be replaced with Tartar sauce. If you like spicy, add a little Tabasco to the mayonnaise or mix in a clove of garlic squeezed through a press. Put the finished salad in the "boat". Sprinkle with a chopped green onion.
Gourmet Salad
This recipe is good to use for the New Year, when you want something original and unusual. Shrimp and avocado salad is a pretty hearty meal. The fruit itself is rather oily, and we still add olive oil to it and add fried seafood. But the New Year is celebrated once every 365 days, and then the extra calories can then be burned during working days.
The nutritional value can be reduced if you fry boiled shrimps (400 grams) in a wok pan - so the crustaceans do not have time to absorb the fat. Seafood is best prepared in a mixture of vegetable and butter. After three minutes of shrimp staying in a pan, add two tablespoons of soy sauce. Turn off the fire, sprinkle with chopped parsley.
Peel two avocados. The pulp is cut into cubes with a face of 1.5-2 centimeters. We tear a half bunch of lettuce leaves so that they are the same size, and then we cut yellow bell peeled peeled seeds. We divide six cherry tomatoes into halves. Add fried shrimp and 150-200 grams of canned sweet corn to the salad. Sprinkle the dish with balsamic vinegar and olive oil, mix and serve.
Varieties of gourmet salad (recipes)
Avocados with shrimp and cherry tomatoes can be prepared with other products. And in every salad, this trio will sound delicious. Try changing the recipe above a bit. So, instead of corn, add the same amount of young fresh or frozen green peas. To saturate the dish with vitamins, add onions (preferably salad, sweet). If you don’t have this, then chop the ordinary onion rings and pour over boiling water - this will remove unnecessary bitterness. The cucumber will give freshness to the dish, which we introduce in the recipe instead of bell pepper. Black olives, lettuce leaves and cherry tomatoes will remind you of the classic Greek Salad. But shrimp, avocados and capers will add romantic exoticism. You can also make a variation of the famous “Caesar” by laying out an avocado on a sheet of Beijing cabbage, adding shrimp, crackers and watering with a special dressing of garlic butter with half-baked eggs. Do not forget to sprinkle the dish with lemon juice.
If you want to make the salad ultra-healthy, in addition to onions, chop the leaves of wild garlic into it. We neutralize the light garlic spirit of this plant by adding petiole celery. You can also endlessly experiment with refueling. Olive oil with lemon juice, balsamic, vinaigrette sauce, not to mention mayonnaise - every time dressing will open up new facets of taste. How to serve such a salad? Large pieces will not fit into the peel of an avocado. But you can serve the dish in portioned bowls, laying it on a piece of Beijing cabbage or salad.
Spring salad
Perfectly harmonious in taste are snacks with avocados, shrimp and fresh cucumber. These three components seem to be made for each other. They can be served without any accompaniment, simply by stringing boiled shrimp, a cube of avocado and a thick semicircle of cucumber onto a skewer. If we want to combine the three ingredients in a salad, then it is better to fry seafood in a mixture of oils and add fresh herbs and beans.
A dressing for such a dish is prepared like this. Three tablespoons of vegetable oil, lemon juice and soy sauce are poured into a jar with a lid, a pinch of sugar is added, a clove of garlic is squeezed through a press. Screw the lid on and shake it vigorously as a shaker until all the dressing ingredients have come into contact.
Oriental salad
Oriental cuisine often uses a combination of tender shrimp and sweet fruits. We bring to your attention a recipe with an orange. We select those varieties of citrus fruits in which there are no seeds. Instead of an orange, you can take tangerines (clementines or satsumi), as well as grapefruit. But then you should clean the slices of the fetus from white films. A pound of peeled shrimp is fried. Two oranges are peeled, cut into circles. We chop the onion with rings, scald with boiling water, and throw it into a colander. Two avocados cut in half, peeled, cut the flesh in the shape of a crescent moon, so that it looked like a shrimp. Of three tablespoons of lemon juice, four of orange, and one of olive oil, we are preparing a dressing.
Now let's see how to serve such a salad. We have already seen how to serve shrimp-filled avocados. We cannot save the whole skin from this fruit, no matter how hard we try. But we have halves of orange peel. In such impromptu bowls, you can serve a dish. Or put mugs of orange on lettuce leaves, and place a shrimp and a slice of avocado on them. You can simply chop all the products, fold them in a pile and fill with mustard dressing.
Puff salad
Such an appetizer is served in transparent portioned bowls. The main role in the salad is reserved for avocado with shrimp, but there are other ingredients in the dish. Mix dark beans (400 g) and sweet corn (300 g) with finely chopped onion. Boiled shrimp (half a kilo) will be sent to marinate for half an hour in salted lemon juice. Now lay the salad in layers in this order. We cover the bottom of portioned glasses with leaves. Salad needs to be torn by hands. The second layer is a mixture of beans, corn and onions. The third layer is a fresh cucumber. Next are layers of tomatoes, avocados, divided into thin fibers of suluguni cheese. At the top, place the pickled shrimp. Separately, various sauces are placed in small bowls on the table.
Hot snack
Not only salads are suitable for shrimp avocados. Baked in the oven, this dish can become the main one for a romantic dinner - light and nourishing. To cook such a hot appetizer, we need a pound of boiled shrimp. Clean them. One hundred grams of hard cheese rubbed very finely, "to dust." We also cut several branches of parsley. Remove the bones from the two avocados, gently pull out the pulp with a spoon so as not to damage the peel. Pass a clove of garlic through a press. Puree the avocado pulp with a potato crusher or with a blender. Add garlic, parsley, cheese, shrimp. Salt and pepper the filling. We place it in the “boat” peeled avocado peeled with vegetable oil. Bake at 200 degrees for about twenty minutes. Serve the dish hot.
Holiday Sandwiches
Canapes with avocados and shrimp look amazing. And it’s not worth talking about taste! Avocado is known to be a very oily fruit. A special sauce is prepared from it - guacamole. So we will use it in our canapes instead of butter. Two hundred grams of tiger shrimp are cleaned, leaving the tails intact. Fry crustaceans in olive oil with garlic, salt. Now cook the guacamole. We take out the flesh of the avocado and immediately sprinkle it with lemon juice so that it does not darken. Grind it in mashed potatoes in a blender with a large tomato and onion. Add olive oil to taste, salt. Cut the crust from a white baguette. We cut the bread into slices. Dry in the oven. Grease each slice of guacamole. Lay the fried shrimp on top. Sometimes brown bread is also used for such sandwiches.
Warm salad
Seafood in this dish is introduced last - just before serving. In the meantime, finely chop two cloves of garlic and a couple of stems of fresh basil. Keep the leaves - we still need them. Cut a long cucumber (or two small ones) into thin semicircles. Add the zest, cut with a grater from one lime. Squeeze the juice from half the citrus into cucumbers. But that is not all. Juice from the other half of lime pour the diced pulp of two avocados. Mix all the ingredients, sprinkle them with olive oil, salt. We clean two hundred grams of raw large shrimp. To do this, we cut the carapace from the back of the crustacean and remove the dark intestinal vein. Ponytails can be left. Heat the oil in a pan. Peel one or two cloves of garlic. Whole add them to the pan. When the oil is saturated with the aroma of garlic, we catch the cloves and put the shrimp. Fry one and a half minutes on each side. Spread on top of the rest of the ingredients and serve a warm avocado salad with shrimp to the table.
Buffet Tartlets
If you have ready baskets of shortcrust pastry, then you can serve avocado with shrimp in such an exquisite “basket”. There are several options. In the first, you can make guacamole sauce from avocado, squeeze it through a cooking bag into a tartlet, garnish with fried shrimp, dill and a tiny slice of lemon. In the second option, put the salad in the basket. For him, we finely chop boiled shrimp, avocado pulp, Peking cabbage leaf (soft part). Salt and pour dressing with mayonnaise, ketchup and Worcester sauce. The top of the tartlets is decorated with a whole shrimp with a tail.
Sushi
Boil rice. Add vinegar, sugar and salt to it. Boil shrimp, clean. We clear the cucumber and avocado from the peel, cut into thin strips. Lettuce leaves tear hands as small as possible. We begin to roll shrimp and avocado rolls. We put a sheet of nori on the mat and a layer of rice on it. Put the filling on the edge. Gently roll the roll. We cut into six parts.
Shrimp and Avocado Ceviche
This popular Latin American dish is prepared from sea bream, mussels and other gifts of the warm seas. For our ceviche we will use boiled and peeled king prawns (half a kilo). Pickle them for half an hour in lime juice mixed with salt, sugar, chopped tomatoes and onions. Peel one avocado fruit. Cut the pulp into small cubes. Mix with pickled shrimp. Everything, Ceviche is ready!