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SEASONED CALIFORNIA AVOCADO, SHRIMP, AND ROMAINE SALAD

Prep Time: 0 min
Cook Time 0 min
Total Time 0 min

Serves 12

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Recipe Provided By the California Avocado Commission, for foodservice use

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Ingredients

  • Seasoned California Avocado

  • 4 California Avocados
  • 1 Tbsp. Fresh lemon or lime juice
  • 1 tsp. Finely chopped garlic
  • 1 tsp. Ground cumin
  • 1 15 tsp. Salt
  • ½ tsp. Ground coriander
  • To taste (optional) Hot pepper sauce
  • Marinated Shrimp

  • 1 ½ Tbsp. Red Wine Vinegar
  • 1 ½ Tbsp. Finely chopped cilantro
  • 2 Tbsp. Lightly toasted, ground pumpkin seeds
  • 1 tsp. Sugar
  • 1 tsp. Finely chopped garlic
  • ½ tsp. Salt
  • cup Olive oil
  • 2 lbs. Shrimp (21 - 25 count, cooked, peeled, deveined)
  • Coriander Seed Dressing

  • cup Seasoned Rice Vinegar
  • ¼ cup Mirin wine (Japanese rice wine)
  • 24 tsp. Coriander seeds, coarsely crushed
  • ½ cup + 2 tablespoons Olive oil
  • As needed Cilantro sprigs
  • As needed Colored tortilla strips or chips
  • 36 Hearts of romaine leaves

Instructions

  1. METHOD
  2. To prepare avocado, mash until creamy with bits of avocado remaining. (Do not puree.) Thoroughly blend remaining ingredients with avocado; reserve. To make Marinated Shrimp, whisk together vinegar and next 6 ingredients. Whisk in olive oil. Fold shrimp into vinaigrette; reserve. To make Coriander Seed Dressing, whisk together vinegar and next 5 ingredients; whisk in oil.
  3. PER ORDER
  4. Brush 3 leaves romaine with coriander dressing; fan them out across a serving plate with root ends touching. Put a #16 scoop of avocado mixture at the root end of the leaves. Arrange 4 shrimp around avocado. Garnish with cilantro sprigs and tortilla strips or chips.

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