Shrimp Stuffed Avocados (Aguacate Relleno con Camarones)
Delicious recipe for shrimp stuffed avocado that consists of avocado boats filled with a shrimp salad made with red onion, radish, bell pepper, celery and cilantro aioli.
Servings 8 -10 stuffed avocado halves
Ingredients
- 4-5 firm but ripe avocados
- 1 lb medium sized cooked shrimp
- ½ medium red onion diced finely
- 2 radishes diced finely
- ½ red bell pepper diced finely
- 2 celery stalks diced finely
- 2 hard-boiled eggs diced
- 5 tbs cilantro aioli or mix regular mayonnaise with chopped cilantro, garlic and lime
- Lime juice from 1 lime
- Salt/pepper to taste
Optional garnishes:
- Chopped lettuce sliced tomatoes and chopped cilantro
Instructions
- Chop the cooked shrimp in half, if desired keep a few whole ones to garnish.
- Combine diced onions, radishes, bell pepper, celery, eggs, shrimp, ½ of the lime juice, and the aioli or mayonnaise in a bowl, mix well. Can be kept refrigerated until ready to use.
- Taste and salt/pepper if necessary.
- Cut avocados in half, remove seed and peel carefully.
- Drizzle remaining lime juice over avocados, this help keep them from darkening too quickly.
- Use a spoon to stuff avocados with shrimp salad filling.
- Add any garnishes and serve immediately.
Notes
Serve with aji or hot sauce if you want to spice it up. Also, if you’re serving it as a salad and have any extra cilantro aioli you can serve this on the side as additional salad dressing.