Mexican Shrimp Cocktail Stuffed Avocados

Name: Mexican Shrimp Cocktail Stuffed Avocados
Prep time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 10
Ingredients: 1 pound cooked shrimp, chopped; 1 cup chopped tomatoes; 1/2 cup diced cucumbers; 1/2 cup diced red onions; 1-2 jalapeno, deseeded and diced*; 1/4 cup chopped cilantro; 3 tablespoons shrimp cocktail sauce; 2 tablespoons hot sauce (such as Louisiana or Cholula); 2-3 tablespoons lime juice; 1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper; salt and pepp; 5-6 avocados

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Just 7 grams of net carbs in this dinner recipe! Shrimp ceviche or Mexican shrimp cocktail stuffed avocados with tons of veggies in a spicy sauce. These stuffed avocados are sure to become a summer dinner favorite!

Mexican Shrimp Cocktail Stuffed Avocados - these avocados boats are easy to make and contain just 7 grams of next carbs! A fresh summer meal that will keep you nice and full! #avocadoboats #stuffedavocados #shrimpceviche #lowcarbmeals | Littlespicejar.com

STUFFED AVOCADOS.

Say what?! Shrimp cocktail stuffed avocados are everything. Hands-down the best low-carb dinner of the century.

Those buttery, delicious avocados are cut in half and filled with a simple combination of shrimp, cucumbers, tomatoes, onions, jalapenos, and a tomato based spicy, tangy sauce. Okay, so you could call this Mexican-style shrimp ceviche, only I’m a horrible food blogger for telling you this, but we’re not actually ‘cooking’ the shrimp in lime juice as traditionally done in ceviche. I’m a total wimp and find the whole concept just a tad bit on the scary side. Okay, I downplayed that. The reality is I find it utterly TERRIFYING. Risk eating raw seafood? Thanks but no thanks.

We don’t need this year to be marked by the Raw Shrimp Disaster of Twenty-Seventeen where little old me told you to cook your shrimp in lime juice, inadvertently giving your whole family food poisoning. So we’ll just take ourselves to the seafood counter and pick up a pound or so of those precooked shrimp that the fish monger is happy to bag up for us and save ourselves from a highly uncomfortable situation.

If you want to be extra fan-cy and show off in front of your dinner guests, you can brush the avocados with a little bit of olive oil, generously sprinkle with some salt, and throw them on the grill to give them some summer lovin’. Grill marks make everything taste that much better. We’re the type of people that have zero patience in firing up the grill when it’s 101ºF. I’ll take my avocados cold straight from the fridge and with shrimp ceviche piled on high.

It’s no coincidence that this stuffed avocado recipe requires NO cooking. Friends, the 4th of July brought with it just the tip of the inevitable summer heat. I’m certainly not stepping near a stove unless it’s necessary. Give me all the cold meals; I don’t want anything HOT!

To be completely honest with you, this was supposed to be a recipe for shrimp cocktail stuffed avocados. You know, the kind of American shrimp cocktail that consists of just shrimp and cocktail sauce. Then the guilt of eating a meal that consisted entirely of healthy fats and protein kicked in and somewhere in the back of my mind a red flag went up, gently reminding me how every resolution set for the new year involves the words ‘eating more’ and ‘veggies.’

The idea quickly expanded into Mexican shrimp cocktail stuffed avocados where tomatoes, cucumbers, onions, cilantro, and jalapenos play a decent enough roll for me to rid myself of the guilt factor. Not only do these avocado boats look prettier with all that veggie color but this meal still contains just 7 grams of net carbs and a whopping 14 grams of fiber.

Talk about nice and filling!

Let’s breakdown that sauce. I’m using store-bought cocktail sauce from the condiment aisle and sprucing it up with some hot sauce and lime juice to give it that bright flavor. There is no shame in a little semi-homemade meal that’s light, healthy, and refreshing.

Ketchup is okay to use if you want to make this meal in a hurry and have all the ingredients except the cocktail sauce and don’t want to make a special trip to the store. It works as a decent substitute, especially if you up the cayenne and the hot sauce by just a tad bit. I do find the horseradish from the cocktail sauce helps provide that flavor profile we all love about shrimp cocktail, so definitely try it that way too.

What to expect? Creamy avocados piled high with homemade shrimp cocktail. That first bite has a little bit of everything. The heat from the ceviche mellows out nice and smooth on your tongue when paired with the avocado. And hey, I get if avocado boats aren’t your thing. You can easily dice up the avocados, combine them with the rest of the shrimp cocktail ingredients and serve it in a clear glass bowl.

Optional but awesomely delicious: using a tortilla chip as a scooping vessel. I wouldn’t be doing my job if I didn’t tell you about that little trick.

Wuv these kinds of low-carb meals!

Yield: 10-12 stuffed avocado halves