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Prawn cocktail
Shellfish appetizer / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Prawn cocktail, also known as shrimp cocktail, is a seafood dish consisting of shelled, cooked prawns in a Marie Rose sauce or cocktail sauce,[1] served in a glass.[2][3] It was the most popular hors d'œuvre in Great Britain, as well as in the United States, from the 1960s to the late 1980s.[4] According to the English food writer Nigel Slater, the prawn cocktail "has spent most of (its life) see-sawing from the height of fashion to the laughably passé" and is now often served with a degree of irony.[5]
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Alternative names | Shrimp cocktail |
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Course | Hors d'oeuvre |
Main ingredients | Prawns, cocktail sauce |
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The cocktail sauce is essentially ketchup and mayonnaise in Commonwealth countries, or ketchup and horseradish in the United States.[6] Recipes may add Worcestershire sauce, hot sauce, vinegar, cayenne pepper or lemon juice.