Shrimp and Avocado Salad with Pink Sauce

Description

This recipe came from a cook on an oil platform in the Java Sea. It's very delicious and surprisingly filling.

Shrimp and Avocado Salad w pink sauce

Ingredients

• 1 large avocado
• 2 large tomatoes
• 1 head lettuce
• 1 dozen shrimp (medium to large, boiled and peeled, do not overcook)

Pink sauce

• 1 cup Miracle Whip
• ¼ cup tomato catsup
• 1 teaspoon Lawry's seasoned salt
• 1 – 5 dash(es) Louisiana hot sauce, to taste

Directions

Pink sauce

1. Stir well and set into refrigerator to chill.
2. Wash the avocado and split it.
3. Separate with a turning motion.
4. Remove the seed.
5. Set aside.

Salad

1. Wash and chop the tomatoes into 8 pieces each.
2. Set aside.
3. Wash the lettuce and pull off several large leaves.
4. Finely slice some of the lettuce.
5. Make a bed of the lettuce leaves.
6. Add an avocado half to one end of the platter.
7. Put the shrimp with the head end down in the avocado half.
8. Allow the shrimp tails to hang over the sides of the avocado.
9. Add some of the shredded lettuce to the other end of the platter.
10. Arrange the tomatoes in a circle on the shredded lettuce.
11. Cover the shrimp and avocado with the pink sauce and add some over the lettuce and tomato salad.