Crayfish Cocktail With Horseradish Cream Recipes

CRAYFISH COCKTAIL WITH HORSERADISH CREAM

Steps:

• First, make the horseradish cream by mixing together the crème fraîche, horseradish sauce and half of the lime juice. Keep the sauce covered and chill until needed.
• Take two glass serving dishes and put 1 chicory leaf in each. Finely shred the rest of the chicory and divide it between the dishes. Stone, peel and thinly slice the avocado, toss in the remaining lime juice and put on the shredded chicory. Lay the crayfish tails over the top.
• Add the horseradish cream and a light sprinkling of cayenne pepper to serve.

SHRIMP COCKTAIL WITH HORSERADISH COCKTAIL SAUCE

Steps:

• Drop shrimp into boiling water and reduce heat to simmer. Remove the shrimp from the water before they curl up (it will take about 3-4 minutes).
• For cocktail sauce, combine ketchup, Worcestershire sauce, horseradish and lemon juice in a bowl and refrigerate for at least 15 minutes before serving. You can also add dried onion powder if you desire. Salt to taste.

GRILLED SHRIMP COCKTAIL WITH HORSERADISH CREAM DIPPING SAUCE

Steps:

• Preheat a grill pan over medium high heat.
• Loosen shells of shrimp and butterfly them cutting down the devein line of the back of the shrimp. Toss shrimp with 1 teaspoon coarse salt. Combine melted butter with lemon juice and zest. Using a pastry brush, cover shrimps with lemon butter and set on hot grill. Grill shrimp 3 to 4 minutes on each side, until pink and firm.
• In a bowl, combine bread crumbs, horseradish, cream and salt. Let the cream soak into the bread crumbs 2 minutes. Loosen bread crumbs with a fork. Stir in cayenne sauce or cayenne and combine with sour cream. Spoon equal amounts of sauce into ramekins on individual plates or a dip bowl in the center or 1 large platter.
• Arrange 5 grilled shrimp down the center of 1 leaf of romaine lettuce. Serve shrimp with seafood forks alongside dipping sauce.

BROILED CRAWFISH WITH HORSERADISH COCKTAIL SAUCE

Steps:

• For sauce:
• Whisk first 4 ingredients and 3 teaspoons horseradish in medium bowl to blend. Season to taste with freshly ground black pepper and more horseradish, if desired. Transfer to small bowl. DO AHEAD: Sauce can be made 1 day ahead. Cover and chill.
• For crawfish;
• Combine first 7 ingredients in 10-to 12-quart large pot. Add 4 quarts water and 2 tablespoons salt. Bring to boil over high heat, stirring until salt dissolves. Boil 5 minutes. Add crawfish and boil 5 minutes. Remove from heat. Add ice cubes to pot to stop cooking. Let crawfish sit in cooking liquid 15 minutes.
• Using slotted spoon, transfer all crawfish to large bowl. Reserve 10 whole crawfish for garnish. Working with remaining crawfish 1 at a time, hold head and body with 1 hand and twist off tail portion with opposite hand. Discard head portion. Peel shell off tail and clean tail. Place tail in medium bowl. DO AHEAD: Can be made 8 hours ahead. Cover and chill tails and reserved 10 crawfish.
• Divide cleaned crawfish evenly among 10 dishes. Garnish with whole crawfish.
• Serve crawfish with cocktail sauce and lemon wedges.

CRAYFISH COCKTAIL

Steps:

• For the cocktail sauce, mix the mayonnaise, ketchup, Worcestershire and Tabasco sauces. Mix the crayfish tails into it.
• Layer all of the ingredients into cocktail glasses - the crayfish tails, shredded lettuce, sliced avocado, and more cocktail sauce. Garnish with a wedge of lemon and freshly squeezed lemon juice.