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Prawn Cocktail
Depending on where you live, our recipe for how to make Prawn or Shrimp Cocktails. An old favourite brought back that serves as an impressive start to any meal.
- Total
- 20 min
Jump to the methodAdded August 2011
You'll need
Prawn Cocktail
- 250g of cooked Prawns
- 1 tomato
- 1 avocado
- 4 Whole Lettuce leaves
- Slices of lemon to decorate
- Chopped Parsley to decorate
Cocktail Sauce
- 3 full tbsp Mayonnaise
- 1 tbsp of Tomato Sauce
- 1 tsp of Worcestershire Sauce
- 1 few drops of Tabasco
- Salt and Pepper
- Decorative Martini Glass
Method
Shell the prawns reserving 2 of them for the decoration. Cut the rest of the prawns in 1 to 2 cm pieces.
Slice the tomato. Take ½ an avocado and finely slice it length way. Shred 2 of the Lettuce leaves.
Prepare salad 
Prepare Mayonnaise Prepare the Cocktail sauce. In a bowl, mix the mayonnaise with the Tomato sauce, the Worcestershire sauce and a few drops of Tabasco. Add salt and pepper to taste and mix thoroughly. The sauce should have a thick and creamy consistency.
Add the Prawns to the cocktail sauce. Mix until all of the Prawns have a light covering of sauce.
Next, lay one whole salad leaf in the base of the Martini glass. Add the shredded salad, the avocado and the tomato slices; arrange them so as to create a well in the centre. Add half of the prawns. Repeat the same step for the other glass.
Just before serving, add a Prawn and a slice of lemon in each glass. To finish, sprinkle the Prawns with a little chopped parsley.
