Salad with avocado, tomatoes and shrimp

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   How to make a salad with avocado, tomatoes and shrimp? Prepare the ingredients according to the list. You will need shrimp, half an avocado, bell pepper and tomato, a small red or onion, olive oil and spices. Leaf lettuce is suitable for any variety, for example, Iceberg lettuce, Boston", lettuce, watercress.

2. Step 2:

   

   How to cook shrimp properly? Pour water into a large saucepan. The volume of liquid should be twice the volume of seafood. Add salt (1 tablespoon per 1 liter of water). When it boils, put the shrimp in a saucepan. As soon as they boil again, immediately turn off the fire. Small shrimp are cooked for about 2 minutes. Royal or tiger - 3-7 minutes depending on their size. Flip into a colander, rinse with cold water. Peel the chilled shrimp.

3. Step 3:

   

   Cut the bell pepper in half, remove the middle with the seeds. Cut half of the pepper into strips. Cut a juicy, meaty tomato into thin, neat slices. Do not take too soft fruit, as it will give the salad extra juice and lose its shape when sliced.

4. Step 4:

   

   Peel the onion. Rinse it and the knife with cold water so that when slicing onion juice does not irritate the mucous membrane of the eyes so much. Cut the onion into thin half rings. It is better to use red onion, with it the dish will be brighter in appearance.

6. Step 5:

   

   Wash and dry the lettuce leaves with paper towels. Tear it into small pieces with your hands. Tear it into small pieces with your hands. It is important not to cut with a knife, as the lettuce from contact with metal quickly darkens, withers and loses vitamins.

7. Step 6:

   

   Wash the avocado, cut in half, remove the stone. Peel it off. Cut the pulp into small pieces. It is better to clean the fruit in the specified order, because after removing the skin, the surface of the avocado becomes slippery and when trying to remove the stone, you can easily cut yourself.

8. Step 7:

   

   In a large salad bowl, combine boiled shrimp, chopped vegetables, lettuce leaves, avocado. Salt to taste. Pepper if desired. Squeeze the juice out of half a lemon in any way you like. Pour lemon juice over the salad. Season with olive oil. Take unrefined oil, which is obtained by cold pressing olives (Extra Virgin Olive Oil). This oil will give the dish a richer aroma and taste. Gently mix the ingredients.

9. Step 8:

   

   Delicious and fragrant salad is ready. Serve it on the table immediately. Enjoy your meal!