Hey everyone, it is me again, Dan, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, shrimp cocktail. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Shrimp cocktail is one of the most favored of recent trending meals in the world. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions every day. Shrimp cocktail is something which I have loved my whole life. They are fine and they look wonderful.
To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook shrimp cocktail using 15 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Shrimp cocktail:
- Take 1 large salad bowl
- Get 2 lb jumbo shrimp
- Make ready 1/2 large can tomato juice
- Take 3 large tomatoes chopped
- Make ready 2 haas avocados chunked
- Take 1 medium cucumber peeled/seeded/chunked
- Make ready 1 medium yellow onion diced
- Get 1 bunch fresh cilantro leaves chopped
- Make ready 1/2 medium green pepper diced
- Get 1 medium jalapeno seeded/chopped you can throw in a few seeds for added heat
- Make ready 1 tsp finely chopped garlic
- Prepare 1 oz hot sauce I like Franks red hot
- Prepare 2 oz ketchup or catsup whatever
- Get 1 splash of citrus soda I recommend fresca or squirt
- Make ready 1 salt n pepper to taste
Instructions to make Shrimp cocktail:
- boil shrimp in salt water (large pot, 1Tbsp salt) if shrimp r precooked defrost fully in cold water instead of boiling them. tips: bring water to boil before throwing shrimp in, they will float to the surface when done. dont leave the shrimp in too long, you want them tender not chewy!
- cool shrimp in cold water ( ice speeds up the process of coarse.) when cooled, or defrosted, peel shrimp and devein (to devein shrimp, run a paring knife along the outer curve of the shrimp almost 1/4in deep from top to bottom youll see it!) its poop u dont want to eat that part!
- throw the shrimp in the bowl with all other ingredients, toss well, but gently u dont want to mash the avocado or tomatoes… chill for atleast an hour n enjoy! great with saltine crackers and a slice of lime
- a great add-in is chunked octopus.
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