Turtle Shell Salad

• 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)

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.

avocados, lemon juice, romaine lettuce leaves, cottage cheese, green olives, green onions, picante sauce, salt, cayenne pepper

Taken from www.food.com/recipe/turtle-shell-salad-171884 (may not work)