Shrimp, Avocado, and Grapefruit on Endive Spears

As a way to keep me motivated to try new things, A sometimes buys random ingredients and then I have to come up with ways to use them. It's a bit like Iron Chef I guess. For example, this weekend, we came home from the grocery store with endive spears.

I knew I wanted to do an appetizer with them, using the endive as a little cup/spoon. This is what I came up with:


It's basically a cooked shrimp, a slice of avocado, a grapefruit segment, and a bit of a cocktail sauce mixture on an endive spear. The flavour combination sounds a little strange, but surprisingly works really well together, and I think the colours are beautiful. It was harder than I thought to keep the ingredients standing up, so next time, I might chop everything up and mix it all together.

Shrimp, Avocado, and Grapefruit on Endive Spears
Yield: 12 filled spears
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1 tbsp prepared horseradish, or to taste
2 tbsp mayonnaise
2 tbsp ketchup
1 tbsp butter
12 shrimp, peeled and deveined
salt and pepper
1 grapefruit, peeled and segmented
1 avocado, peeled and sliced
2 heads endive

1. To make the cocktail sauce, mix horseradish, mayonnaise, and ketchup together.


2. Cook the shrimp in melted butter until just pink, about 4 minutes.


3. Cut the end off each head of endive.


4. Peel individual leaves of endive and place on a plate.


5. Spoon a teaspoon of cocktail sauce onto each endive leaf.


6. Top with one shrimp, one slice of avocado, and one grapefruit segment.


7. Serve immediately.