Hey everyone, it’s Louise, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, prawn cocktail. It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
King prawns and crabmeat pair beautifully in this Spanish seafood starter, with a zesty mayonnaise dressing. Juicy prawns (shrimp) tossed in a beautiful Prawn Cocktail Sauce (Rose Marie Sauce - a pink mayonnaise). The key to a good Rose Marie Sauce is a good mayonnaise.
Prawn Cocktail is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions every day. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. They are fine and they look wonderful. Prawn Cocktail is something which I have loved my whole life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have prawn cocktail using 10 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Prawn Cocktail:
- Take Prawns
- Take Rocket, spinach and watercress salad
- Prepare 2 vine tomatoes
- Take 1/4 cucumber
- Prepare 2 tbsp mayonnaise
- Prepare 2 tsp tomato ketchup
- Prepare 1 lemon
- Prepare 1 tsp tomato puree
- Prepare 2 slices bread
- Get Butter
Though times have changed, the recipe remains much the same. In those days it used to be something simple but really luscious, yet over the years it has suffered from some very poor adaptations, not least watery prawns and inferior sauces. So here, in all its former glory, is a starter quite definitely for the new millennium! Remove from the heat and set aside.
Steps to make Prawn Cocktail:
- Wash salad, tomatoes and cucumber
- Place rocket salad in 2 bowls and add chopped tomatoes and cucumber
- Wash and peel prawns, drain and add to bowls
- Mix up the mayonnaise, tomato ketchup and tomato puree in a bowl
- Cut lemon in half and juice half of it leaving other half for decoration
- Add some of the juice to the mayonnaise
- Spoon mixture over prawns
- Butter the bread and quarter
- Serve!
For the Marie rose sauce, combine the lemon juice with the remaining ingredients in a bowl and set aside. Lay the prawns out on some kitchen paper and dab dry. Put into a large bowl and add the shredded lettuce, the mayonnaise, tomato ketchup, lemon zest, Tabasco and paprika, if using. Add the whole prawns and cook until they rise to the surface. Drain and chill in ice-cold water.
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