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Shrimp and avocado are a great combination. Add a tostada and you are in heaven. Are you ready to learn how you can make avocado shrimp tostadas with tomato? Let’s get started!
What You Need For This Recipe
If you want to make shrimp tostadas you need the following ingredients:
- Tortillas – use small tortillas
- Avocado – mash the avocado
- Tapenade – I use sun-dried tomato tapenade
- Shrimp – use big cooked pink shrimp you can also use frozen shrimp for this recipe
- Red bell pepper – cut into thin slices
- Yellow bell pepper – cut into thin slices
- Sun-dried tomatoes
- Rucola
- Black pepper to taste
- Olive oil
Note that the full ingredients list, including measurements, can be found in the recipe card below.
How To Make Shrimp Tostadas
- If you want to make these avocado shrimp tostadas, start with making some guacamole as you need it as the base for the tostada.
- Then heat a skillet with some olive oil. Toast the tortillas for about 1 minute on both sides until the tortillas are golden and crispy.
- Spread the guacamole on the tortilla as the first layer. Then stack the ingredients on the tostada and add tapenade, bell peppers, sun-dried tomatoes, cooked shrimp, and rucola.
- For the second tostada try a little variation and start with stacking the tapenade first. Then add the sliced avocado, red bell peppers, sun-dried tomatoes, and shrimp.
- You are ready to serve the shrimp tostada.
- As the tortillas are baked crunchy, you run the risk of the tostadas falling apart. However, it is easy to learn how to eat a tostada without making a mess.
Tasty Tostada Recipe
Small tortillas are the best and a great base for these simple avocado shrimp tomato tostadas. These tostadas are pan-fried in a little olive oil but it also contains lots of vegetables and cooked shrimp.
Besides pan-frying tostadas, you can also bake tostada in the oven. Pan-frying tortillas is super-fast. It is a matter of seconds to get them brown and crispy in a skillet.
Beware that when you pan-fry, the tortilla will absorb the olive oil. So, when the tortillas are done take them out of the pan and drain them on a paper towel.
Let them cool off before adding different other ingredients. Like the shrimp. It is a great combination of avocado. In this recipe the avocado is used in two ways:
- Sliced avocado
- Guacamole
Tostada Ingredient Options
Whether you, oven-bake your tostada or pan-fry the tortillas there are many ways to stack your tostada. Here are several ingredient options that you can use:
- Refried beans – mash black or brown beans and use them as the first layer on your tostada.
- Red beans – a great way to decorate your tostada is by sprinkling some red beans on your tostada.
- Corn – a great addition to your tostada is crispy corn. It also adds color and gives your tostada a decorative look.
- Carrots – finely cut a carrot for even more color and flavor.
- Lettuce – instead of rocket you can use iceberg or lamb’s lettuce to decorate your tostada.
- Hummus – is another great addition to use as a first or second layer. Make the hummus yourself it tastes much better.
- Chickpea – make some oven-roasted chickpeas or use the soft chickpeas on top of your tostada.
- Shredded chicken – if you want to eat some meat add some shredded chicken.
- Mackerel – if you like fish try some mackerel.
- Boiled eggs – slice your eggs or when you love a soft-boiled egg let the yoke drizzle on the tostada.
More Tostadas Recipes
If you love tostadas then you take a look at these tostada recipes as well:
- Vegan crunchy tortilla tostada
- Crunchy tortilla tostada with tuna
- Ground turkey tostada
- Chicken tostada
- Pulled pork tostada
- Breakfast tostada
- Homemade tostada shells
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Avocado Shrimp Tostada
Take a look at this avocado shrimp tostadas recipe with tomato. These are easy to make with vegetables and shrimp.
Ingredients
- 4 small tortilla
- 1 avocado
- 4 tablespoons tapenade
- 1 cup of cooked shrimp
- ½ red bell pepper thinly sliced
- ½ yellow bell pepper thinly sliced
- 1 cup sun dried tomatoes
- ½ cup rucola
- black pepper to taste
- 4 tablespoons olive oil for frying
Instructions
- Half the avocado and turn into some guacamole. Slice the other half of the avocado
- Heat a pan with olive oil
- Pan fry a four tortilla. Fry a tortilla in a couple of seconds per side. Drain the tortilla on a paper towel. Fry the remaining 3 tortillas
- Spread the guacamole on a fried tortilla then add a tablespoon of tapenade and spread this as well. Then add the bell pepper, sun dried tomatoes and shrimp
- For the second tortilla start with the tapenade and add some slices of avocado. Then some bell peppers, sun dried tomatoes and shrimp
- Add some pepper to taste and decorate with rucola
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Nutrition facts
Calories: 450; Fat: 24.6; Carbs: 22.9g; Protein: 34.2g;
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