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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 ]
Prawn cocktail: Great Britain North America: Shelled prawns in a pink sauce based on mayonnaise and tomato, served in a glass. [24] It was the most popular hors d'œuvre in Great Britain from the 1960s to the late 1980s. In North America the sauce is red, essentially ketchup plus horseradish. [24] Prawn roll: Australia
The standard ingredients (in roughly decreasing proportion) are ketchup, horseradish, hot sauce (e.g., Tabasco, Louisiana, or Crystal), Worcestershire sauce, and lemon juice. A soufflé cup is usually set in the middle of the platter of oysters along with a cocktail fork and a lemon slice.
For example, in 1956, Constance Spry published a recipe for Tomato Ice, a chilled mixture of mayonnaise and sweetened tomato pulp, for use as the base of a prawn cocktail. [ 3 ] The American cocktail sauce is a horseradish and ketchup-based sauce that is served with seafood, and dates back considerably earlier.
The ingredients of the meal had a pleasantly sophisticated ring: "cocktail", the use of prawns, which was not common, "steak garni" rather than just steak, [4] and "Black Forest gâteau" rather than just cake; all slightly foreign but easy enough to learn for next time, and allowing the diner to feel that they were enjoying a "continental ...
In Europe, prawns and especially langoustines are very popular, forming a necessary ingredient in Italian cacciucco, Portuguese caldeirada, Spanish paella de marisco, and many other seafood dishes. Prawns are also consumed as salad, by frying, with rice, and as shrimp guvec — a dish baked in a clay pot — on the Mediterranean coast of Turkey.
In Australia, sauce made from mayonnaise and ketchup is called Cocktail Sauce and is used to dress prawns/shrimp in the appetiser known as prawn cocktail. Tartar sauce has the piquant ingredients of Russian dressing, without the ketchup. It is typically served with fried fish. Marie Rose sauce is similar to Russian dressing, but with different ...
A Meat pie "floating" in pea soup. Popular in South Australia and to a lesser degree, Sydney. It is usually garnished with tomato sauce. [87] [88] Surf and turf/ Reef and beef Australasian version of the international beef and seafood combination. Steak topped with a creamy garlic prawn sauce. [89] [90] Wedges with sour cream and sweet chilli sauce