Prawn cocktail salad
Feeling in a bit of a retro mood, I thought I would go back to the 1960s/70s and recreate one of the periods' most popular first courses, but make a whole salad out of it.
Prawn cocktail salad | |
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Servings: | Serves 2 |
Calories per serving: | 541 |
Ready in: | 15 minutes |
Prep. time: | 15 minutes |
Cook time: | None |
Difficulty: | |
Recipe author: | JuliaBalbilla |
First published: | 22nd October 2012 |
Best recipe reviewAbigail's party anyone? 4.8/5 She must have served this? Or was it all drinkys π |
Ingredients
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- For the prawn cocktail:
- 3 tablespoons mayonnaise
- 2 tablespoons salad cream
- 1 tablespoon tomato purΓ©e
- 20 ml Worcestershire sauce
- 2 teaspoons cider vinegar
- A pinch of sweet smoked paprika
- A few drops of Tabasco sauce
- Pinch of celery salt
- 400g net of peeled, cooked prawns, drained and dried with kitchen paper
- For the salad (Use as much or as little as you like of each ingredient):
- 6 Lettuce leaves, chopped or shredded
- A handful of Watercress
- 1 Red pepper, sliced
- 1/4 Cucumber, sliced
- A few Tomatoes, sliced
- 2 Eggs, hard boiled, and quartered
- A few Whole black olives
Method
- Mix all of the ingredients, except for the prawns.
- When thoroughly mixed, stir in the prawns.
- This can be prepared in advance.
- Just before serving, layer a plate with a base of the lettuce, watercress, peppers, cucumber and tomatoes.
- Place the prawn cocktail mixture in the centre of the plate.
- Garnish with the egg quarters and olives.
Serving suggestions
Serve with Rustic French bread
Variations
Just add your favourite salad ingredients. Suggestions are raw avocado, cabbage, shredded carrot, radishes etc. Anything raw and crunchy would work well.
Chef's notes
If you wish to use homemade salad cream, I suggest you taste it for sweetness before making the Marie-Rose sauce. Use commercial salad cream if desired, but again, taste and add more vinegar or sugar to your own taste.
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