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Mexican Shrimp Cocktails

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Prep Time 20 minutes
Additional Time 1 hour
Total Time 1 hour 20 minutes
Calories: 220
Ingredients Method Nutrition

Ingredients
  

  • ⅓ cup yellow onion chopped
  • ¼ cup freshly squeezed lime juice
  • 1 pound chilled & cooked medium shrimp peeled, deveined, and tails removed (leave a few with tails for garnish)
  • 8 ounces grape or roma tomatoes chopped
  • ½ large English cucumber diced
  • 1 stalk celery diced
  • ½-1 jalepeno pepper seeded and finely diced
  • 1 ½ - 2 tsp salt to taste
  • 1 ½ - 2 tsp pepper to taste
  • 1 ½ cups chilled tomato and clam juice cocktail I used Clamato
  • 1 cup chilled ketchup I used Heinz
  • ½ large bunch cilantro - finely chopped
  • 2 tbsp hot pepper sauce Tapatio or Valentina
  • 2 medium avocados peeled, pitted & diced

Method
 

  1. In a small bowl, mix your chopped onions and lime juice together, and let stand for about 10 minutes
  2. In a large bowl, toss together the cooked shrimp, tomatoes, cucumber, celery, jalapeno, salt, and black pepper. Then, proceed with adding the onion and lime juice and mix.
  3. In another small bowl, make the dressing by whisking the tomato juice cocktail, ketchup, chopped cilantro, and hot pepper sauce. 
  4. Pour the dressing over the shrimp mixture, tossing until all the ingredients are well coated. Finally, fold in the avocados.
  5. Cover and chill thoroughly, at least 1 hour to 1 day ahead!

Nutrition

Serving: 6-8Calories: 220kcalCarbohydrates: 15gProtein: 25gFat: 8g

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