Shrimp Tostadas

Name: Shrimp Tostadas
Yield: Serves 4
Ingredients: 1 ripe avocado, peeled and diced; half an iceberg lettuce, shredded; 2 tablespoons fresh coriander, chopped; 3 tomatoes, seeded and diced; 6 spring onions or 1 shallot, peeled or trimmed, and finely chopped; 250 g (½ lb) peeled coldwater shrimps; 1 tablespoon lime juice and grated zest of half a lime; salt; 2 or 3 pickled Jalapeño peppers, chopped; pepper; 150 g (5 oz) creme fraiche or light cream cheese; sunflower or grapeseed oil for shallow-frying; 4 small tortillas

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Modern Classics

By Frances Bissell

Published 2000

About

Ingredients

sunflower or grapeseed oil for shallow-frying
4 small tortillas
150 g (5

Main course
Spicy

Method

Heat the oil in a frying pan, and in it fry the tortillas, one at a time, until crisp. This will take about 2 minutes each. When cool, spread each with the creme fraiche.

Gently mix, in the order given, the onions, tomato, coriander, jalapeño, lime, shrimps and seasoning. Cover each tostada with the shredded lettuce, heap the shrimp mixture on top, and spoon the diced avocado over it, f