Prawn Cocktail Recipes

PRAWN COCKTAIL!!!

Steps:

• If you are using whole prawns, remove heads and peel them. Leave a few whole for decorative purposes, if you wish. I find that with medium size already cooked prawns, deveining is usually not necessary (it's hard to do + so small it's barely noticeably especially with sauce).
• Mix together Sauce in a small bowl.
• Toss prawns with Sauce.
• Place a bit of lettuce in serving dishes. I like to use Martini glasses, but you can use any small serving vessel, or even small lettuce cups.
• Top with prawns. Serve, garnished with lemon wedges and a sprinkle of parsley, if using.

PRAWN COCKTAIL

Steps:

• Bring a large pan of water to the boil and add a squeeze of lemon and glug of vinegar. Add the whole prawns and cook until they rise to the surface. Drain and chill in ice-cold water.
• Peel the cooled prawns, leaving one prawn whole per serving (for the garnish).
• Cut the little Little Gem lettuce in half and place in ice-cold water to crisp it up.
• For the sauce, mix all the sauce ingredients together.
• To assemble the cocktails, drain the lettuce and pat dry with kitchen paper. Arrange two-thirds of the leaves in martini glasses or small bowls.
• Shred the remaining leaves and add to a mixing bowl. Add the peeled prawns and spoonful of sauce. Top with the unpeeled prawn and a sprinkling of cayenne pepper.

CLASSIC PRAWN COCKTAIL

Steps:

• Peel all but four of the prawns (reserve these for the tops). Break the lettuces into individual leaves, then divide the leaves evenly between four small glass bowls. Sprinkle the prawns over the lettuce and season with black pepper.
• Mix the mayonnaise, tomato chutney, Worcestershire sauce, horseradish and Tabasco together. Season to taste with lemon juice and salt and pepper, then spoon sparingly over the prawns. Dust the top with a little paprika and sprinkle with chives. Top with the remaining prawns and serve immediately. Delicious with brown bread.

PRAWN COCKTAIL

Steps:

• Make sure the prawns are drained well of their briny liquid.
• Mix the salad cream, ketchup, lemon juice and Tabasco in a bowl.
• Tip in the prawns and mix to coat them in the Marie-Rose sauce.
• Finally shred the lettuce, and arrange as a bed on six small plates or shallow bowls.
• Divide the prawns in their sauce on the centre of each plate in a kind of pyramid, and then scatter with roughly crushed peppercorns or dust with paprika.
• As long as the prawns were properly thawed and drained before you started immersing them in their famous coral pink sauce, it does not matter if they sit for a good few hours in the fridge before being dolloped out onto their lettuce-lined dishes.

PRAWN COCKTAIL SAUCE

Steps:

• Put all ingredients into a clean screw top jar (cream last), shake well to mix, refrigerate and use as required.
• Spoon over cooked prawns or seafood mix (prawns, crab meat, oysters etc).