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Avocado with Prawns and Balsamic Dressing

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Avocado with Prawns and Balsamic Dressing

Today I’m sharing with you a recipe for Avocado with Prawns and Balsamic Dressing! When I lived at home my mum would always make a starter of halved avocado filled with prawns and a garlic French dressing for special occasions. I decided to bring this starter up to date by fanning the slices onto a plate and using Balsamic instead of white wine vinegar and walnut instead of olive oil.

The marriage of avocado, prawns, garlic and balsamic vinegar are a match made in heaven. I hadn’t made this dish for years and on giving it to my husband for lunch the other day he was extremely pleased and said “this really works”. If you can push the boat out for the Walnut Oil it’s well worth it as it goes so well and I also use it to make cakes with instead of olive oil, otherwise just use olive oil! (I must admit I bought mine in a sale!)

Avocado with Prawns and Balsamic Dressing makes the perfect light lunch served with granary bread and butter or would be great as a starter at Christmas and any leftover dressing is excellent on salad. There is probably enough dressing for 8 servings if you are scaling this recipe up.

I am entering this dish into Javelin Warrior’s Made with Love Mondays Challenge.

Made with Love Mondays, hosted by Javelin Warrior

First make the dressing by shaking all the ingredients together.

Then prepare the avocado. I was sent the Oxo Good Grips 3-in-1 avocado slicer this week and it worked a treat. It cuts, stones and slices, a fab gadget!

Arrange the avocado slices in a fan shape.

Arrange the prawn on top and pour on the dressing.

Enjoy!

Enjoy with some buttered wholemeal bread!

Disclaimer: I was sent the Oxo Good Grips 3 in 1 Slicer and have not received any payment from Oxo.

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Avocado with Prawns and Balsamic Dressing

A quick and simple but impressive starter of avocado, prawns and a garlic balsamic dressing.
Course Light Lunch, Starter
Cuisine English
Prep Time 10 minutes
Total Time 10 minutes
Servings 2
Author Camilla

Ingredients

  • 1 Avocado
  • 60 g Frozen prawns thawed
  • For Balsamic Dressing:
  • 4 Tbsp Walnut oil
  • 2 Tbsp Balsamic vinegar
  • 2 Cloves garlic crushed
  • 2 Small pinches sea salt flakes
  • Freshly ground pepper

Instructions

  • Put all the dressing ingredients into a salad dressing shaker, season to taste and shake vigorously.
  • Prepare avocado by cutting in half, removing stone, skinning and cutting into slices.
  • Arrange avocado slices on plates or small dishes.
  • Decorate with the prawns and then pour over as much dressing as you wish.
  • Serve with buttered wholemeal bread.

Notes

Use the leftover dressing for your salads as this will make enough for about 8 servings.

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  1. Paul Wilson

    02/07/2015 at 12:21 am

    Great combination.

    Reply
    • Camilla

      02/07/2015 at 10:36 am

      Thanks Paul, one which I’ve been eating for decades and daughter loves it too:-)

      Reply
  2. Anne Dalzell

    11/11/2014 at 11:26 pm

    I’ve only just started eating avocado as the colour put me off. It’s a fantastic veg to work with and my little 9mth old girl loves it.

    Reply
    • Camilla

      11/11/2014 at 11:34 pm

      Yes I used to give it to mine and with mashed banana – so good for them:-)

      Reply
  3. Kirsty Fox

    29/09/2014 at 8:15 pm

    This looks delicious, I love prawns they are one of my faves!

    Reply
    • Camilla

      30/09/2014 at 4:28 pm

      Same here:-)

      Reply
  4. Elizabeth

    14/08/2014 at 3:40 pm

    Still not sure about prawns (I really need to get over that aversion) but this does sound like a lovely starter!

    Reply
    • Camilla

      15/08/2014 at 6:15 pm

      Oh they are so lovely, you really need to conquor this one:-)

      Reply
  5. Paul Wilson

    07/07/2014 at 12:07 am

    Love the avocado slicer.

    Reply
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