AVOCADO STUFFED WITH SEAFOOD

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[edit] Description

avocado stuffed with seafood. Perfect dainty!

[edit] Ingredients

• 1/4 cup lemon juice
  
• 1/4 cup dry white wine
  
• 1 tsp. curry powder
  
• 1/2 tsp. mace
  
• 1 pint Mayonnaise
  
• 1 Ib. crabmeat or lobster meat
  
• 1/2 Ib. Shrimp, cleaned and deveined
  
• lettuce leaves
  
• avocado halves, peeled
  
• 4 grapefruit sections
  
• 1 strip of pimiento
  
• 2 sprigs chicory
  
• 1 black olive
  
• 1/2 hard boiled egg
  
• 3 or 4 capers
  
• 2 carrot curls
  

[edit] Directions

1. In a 1-quart bowl: Blend: 1/4 cup lemon juice, 1/4 cup dry white wine, 1 tsp. curry powder, 1/2 tsp. mace.
   
2. Add 1 pint Mayonnaise. Mix: 1 Ib. crabmeat or lobster meat, 1/2 Ib. Shrimp, cleaned and deveined.
   
3. Marinate the seafood slightly with a little of the dressing immediately before serving. Use only enough dressing to blend. Arrange lettuce leaves to form cups on plates. Place avocado halves, peeled, in center of cup.
   
4. Fill lightly with seafood blended with dressing. Arrange 4 grapefruit sections at side of plate. Place 1 strip of pimiento across grapefruit. Place 2 sprigs chicory, one at each end of grapefruit. Top with 1 black olive.
   
5. Garnish with 1/2 hard boiled egg. Top with: 3 or 4 capers and 2 carrot curls, one at each side.
   

Yield: 8 portions.