Turtle Shell Salad

Total Time: 20 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 4 avocados, halved, pitted, peeled
• 1/2 cup lemon juice
• 6 large romaine lettuce leaves
• 3/4 cup cottage cheese
• 1/4 cup chopped pimento-stuffed green olives
• 2 green onions, thinly sliced
• 1 tablespoon picante sauce
• 1/4 teaspoon salt or 1/4 teaspoon salt substitute
• 1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper (optional)

Recipe

• 1 pour lemon juice in flat bottom dish and roll each avocado half in lemon juice. place flat side down in dish. sprinkle salt on the top of each half.
• 2 in mixing bowl, take two halves and mash with picante sauce, add cottage cheese, green olives and onions. mix well.
• 3 lay romain lettuce leaf on each of six plates.
• 4 take ice cream scoop and place a scoop of.
• 5 cottage cheese avocado salsa in the middle of lettuce leaf. take one avocado half and place over the mound of salad.
• 6 save the lemon juice to serve.
• 7 note: you can score the avocado half with a toothpick and make marks on the shell and place a large green olive in the front of the "shell" you can make little "feet" by taking the top of a green onion and making cuts to fan on each end of a 2 inch section.
• 8 of green onion top, then cut the section in half and you have "four feet". you can take a small strip of pimento and cut in narrow pieces and tuck under the "shell" for a tail.