Simple Avocado Turtle Appetizer Recipe

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If you read my other posts on appetizers, you will know that I love how quick, easy, yet delicious and beautifully creative it is to make these tiny recipes! 

This fun turtle recipe is brought to you by my dad who is very creative with food while I am most creative with words. Nevertheless, I hope you enjoy this appetizer recipe! 

In this post I show you the materials, ingredients, and the recipe steps to make a simple avocado turtle appetizer! 🐢 

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Ingredients 

• Ripe avocado
• Baby cherry tomatoes 
• Cooked frozen shrimps
• Kale leaves 

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Materials

• Knife 
• Cutting board 
• Toothpicks
• Presentation plate

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Recipe

Step 1

• Make sure the cooked frozen shrimps are defrosted 
  • If not, defrost shrimps (4 shrimps per half avocado)

Step 2

• Gently remove the peel of your ripe avocado
• Then, cut the avocado nicely in half and remove the pit 
• Cut off a small portion of only one of the avocado sides
  • Do this for both halves of the avocado (to make two separate turtles)
    • Look at the picture for reference

Step 3

• Using a toothpick make square like designs (similar to a turtle shell) on the outer layer of the halved avocados (See picture again for reference)

Step 4

• Make a small slit on one side of the cherry tomato in order to gently push in the toothpick all the way through
• Then with that same toothpick (the one attached to the cherry tomato); push the other side of the toothpick into the cut side of the half avocado (See picture for reference)

Step 5 

• Add a kale leaf into the slit opening of the cherry tomato (where the toothpick went through) to act as if the turtle was eating a leaf 

Step 6

• With your unfrozen shrimps cut off the ends BUT not the tail ends (consult picture once more) in order to make the turtle legs
• Arrange the front legs sideways and the back legs facing straight out
• Add the avocado with the tooth-picked cherry tomato over the shrimp legs

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And voilà! That is the recipe to make a simple avocado turtle appetizer! 🐢

Let me know what other recipes you would like to see!

I have a post on Simple and Quick Appetizer Ideas you can glance at here. 

• Simple and Quick Appetizer Ideas
• Simple Appetizer Recipe Egg & Tomato Mushroom House
• Simple Avocado Turtle Appetizer Recipe
• Easy Keto Pizza Recipe Made with Almond Flour
• Simple Keto Chicken Schnitzel Recipe

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