Shrimp or prawn cocktail is a seafood dish consisting of cooked prawns served in a glass with cocktail sauce. The dish has vague origins, but most people claim that it was invented by a 19th-century miner from California who first used oysters in a glass with a sauce, but the Golden Gate Hotel in Las Vegas was the first to offer a 50-cent shrimp cocktail in 1959.
American Shrimp Cocktail
Course: MainCuisine: AmericanDifficulty: Medium2
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minutesShrimp or prawn cocktail is a seafood dish consisting of cooked prawns served in a glass with cocktail sauce. The dish has vague origins, but most people claim that it was invented by a 19th-century miner from California who first used oysters in a glass with a sauce, but the Golden Gate Hotel in Las Vegas was the first to offer a 50-cent shrimp cocktail in 1959.
Ingredients
15 U-15 Jumbo Shrimp
- Shrimp Cocktail Sauce:
1/2 cup chili sauce
1/2 cup ketchup
3 tablespoons prepared horseradish
Juice from half a lemon
1 tsp Worcestershire sauce
1 tsp Tabasco sauce
- Poaching broth for shrimp:
6 cups of boiling water
1 lemon, cut into slices
1/4 cup Chardonnay white wine
1 tsp black peppercorns
1 bay leaf
Directions
- Shrimp Cocktail Sauce:
- Mix everything together and chill for one hour
- Remove shell and legs from shrimp. De-vein if needed.
- Bring water to a boil and add the rest of the ingredients. Boil for 5 minutes. While boiling, prepare an ice water bath (made in a bowl with half ice and half cold water) to shock and chill the shrimp.
- Add shrimp to the boiling water and poach for 2-5 minutes until fully cooked and the shrimp is whitish-pink. Remove from hot water with tongs and place the individual shrimp into the ice bath and leave in there until ready to serve.
- Serve chilled shrimp with chilled cocktail sauce and enjoy!
