Main Ingredients:

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Cooking Preparation of the Recipe:

4 Merlitons
1/4 c Butter
1 Onion, minced
2 Garlic clove, minced
1/2 c Celery, finely chopped
1 lb Shrimp, peeled
1 c Bread, wet and squeezed
Salt pepper to taste
Parsley, minced
Shallots, minced
Bread crumbs, Progresso

Cut merlitons in half, remove seeds. Parboil until ALMOST tender.
Scoop out meat and set aside. Melt butter and saute onions, garlic,
celery until clear. Add raw shrimp, cut in small pieces, and cook
until pink. Mash meat of merliton and add to shrimp mixture. Cook
this for 5 minutes then add bread, seasonings, parsley and shallots.
Mix well. Put back into merliton shells, top with bread crumbs and
bake until brown at 350 degrees about 20-30 minutes. These freeze
well. A Merliton is a vegetable, cross between eggplant avocado.
Grows in Southern Louisiana on climbing vines. Subst Eggplant. Recipe
date: 12/10/87

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