Recipe: Tasty Shrimp cocktail

Shrimp cocktail. Prawn cocktail, also known as shrimp cocktail, is a seafood dish consisting of shelled, cooked prawns in a Marie Rose sauce or cocktail sauce, served in a glass. When we want shrimp cocktail at home, it's easy enough to buy some precooked shrimp (maybe already arranged in a ring) and a jar of cocktail sauce and set it out for people to munch on. This classic shrimp cocktail recipe is one of my favorite Valentine's Day recipes, but really it's terrific year-round.

I've also included tip for buying and preparing shrimp. Shrimp cocktail is an appetizer of boiled shrimp that's dipped into a tomato-based cocktail sauce. Shrimp cocktail is all about the shrimp: big, fat, perfectly cooked gorgeous shrimp. You can have Shrimp cocktail using 15 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Shrimp cocktail

1. It's of salad bowl.
2. It's of jumbo shrimp.
3. It's of can tomato juice.
4. It's of tomatoes chopped.
5. Prepare of haas avocados chunked.
6. Prepare of cucumber peeled/seeded/chunked.
7. You need of yellow onion diced.
8. Prepare of fresh cilantro leaves chopped.
9. It's of green pepper diced.
10. You need of jalapeno seeded/chopped you can throw in a few seeds for added heat.
11. It's of finely chopped garlic.
12. It's of hot sauce I like Franks red hot.
13. You need of ketchup or catsup whatever.
14. Prepare of splash of citrus soda I recommend fresca or squirt.
15. You need of salt n pepper to taste.

Shrimp cocktail is a classic American dish. However old-fashioned it may seem, shrimp cocktail is a classic. We've updated this party standby with a zesty homemade sauce that packs a flavorful punch thanks to acidic ketchup, spicy chili sauce. Shrimp/Prawn Cocktail Recipes_ With Varied, Inventive and Unique Sauces!

Shrimp cocktail instructions

1. boil shrimp in salt water (large pot, 1Tbsp salt) if shrimp r precooked defrost fully in cold water instead of boiling them. tips: bring water to boil before throwing shrimp in, they will float to the surface when done. dont leave the shrimp in too long, you want them tender not chewy!.
2. cool shrimp in cold water ( ice speeds up the process of coarse.) when cooled, or defrosted, peel shrimp and devein (to devein shrimp, run a paring knife along the outer curve of the shrimp almost 1/4in deep from top to bottom youll see it!) its poop u dont want to eat that part!.
3. throw the shrimp in the bowl with all other ingredients, toss well, but gently u dont want to mash the avocado or tomatoes... chill for atleast an hour n enjoy! great with saltine crackers and a slice of lime.
4. a great add-in is chunked octopus..

So put that flavorless cocktail shrimp down and make these! I guarantee you'll fall in love! Shrimp cocktail may be simple, but there are still ways to make sure it tastes the very best it can Shrimp cocktail is an easy, crowd-pleasing appetizer. We like to serve ours with a simple cocktail. Mexican Shrimp Cocktail. this link is to an external site that may or may not meet accessibility guidelines.