This Stuffed Avocado Shrimp Salad is a popular Peruvian dish known as Palta Rellena. It's so easy to make, fresh, tasty, and healthy. Every bite just makes you hungry for more. And the sauce is simply amazing.
Prep Time: 10 minutesmins
Total Time: 10 minutesmins
Servings: 6
Ingredients
For the Salad:
1 ½cupscooked shrimp, cut in half
¼cupgrape tomatoes, halved
¼cupred onion, diced
¼cupfreshly chopped cilantro
¼cupfreshly squeezed lime juice
¼cupsliced black olives
3avocados, semi-soft
kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste
Make the Dressing: In a small container, mix the dressing ingredients well. Cover and chill until ready to use.
In a bowl, combine the shrimp, tomatoes, red onion, cilantro, lime juice, olives, salt, and pepper. If making ahead of time, cover and keep chilled until ready to serve.
When ready to serve, slice avocados in half and remove seed carefully. If desired, slice a bit off the bottom halves so that avocados can stand without tipping over. Fill each avocado half with shrimp salad. Drizzle with the dressing and serve immediately.