Shrimp cocktail.
Hello everybody, it's Louise, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, shrimp cocktail. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Shrimp cocktail is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It's appreciated by millions every day. They're fine and they look wonderful. Shrimp cocktail is something that I've loved my entire life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook shrimp cocktail using 15 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Shrimp cocktail:
- {Make ready of salad bowl.
- {Make ready of jumbo shrimp.
- {Get of can tomato juice.
- {Make ready of tomatoes chopped.
- {Make ready of haas avocados chunked.
- {Get of cucumber peeled/seeded/chunked.
- {Prepare of yellow onion diced.
- {Take of fresh cilantro leaves chopped.
- {Take of green pepper diced.
- {Take of jalapeno seeded/chopped you can throw in a few seeds for added heat.
- {Make ready of finely chopped garlic.
- {Take of hot sauce I like Franks red hot.
- {Get of ketchup or catsup whatever.
- {Take of splash of citrus soda I recommend fresca or squirt.
- {Get of 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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