Simple Way to Make Favorite Shrimp cocktail

Hey everyone, it is me again, Dan, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, shrimp cocktail. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Shrimp cocktail is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions daily. Shrimp cocktail is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.

To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook shrimp cocktail using 15 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Shrimp cocktail:

1. Prepare 1 large salad bowl
2. Get 2 lb jumbo shrimp
3. Make ready 1/2 large can tomato juice
4. Prepare 3 large tomatoes chopped
5. Take 2 haas avocados chunked
6. Get 1 medium cucumber peeled/seeded/chunked
7. Prepare 1 medium yellow onion diced
8. Prepare 1 bunch fresh cilantro leaves chopped
9. Prepare 1/2 medium green pepper diced
10. Make ready 1 medium jalapeno seeded/chopped you can throw in a few seeds for added heat
11. Prepare 1 tsp finely chopped garlic
12. Make ready 1 oz hot sauce I like Franks red hot
13. Take 2 oz ketchup or catsup whatever
14. Prepare 1 splash of citrus soda I recommend fresca or squirt
15. Take 1 salt n pepper to taste

Steps to make Shrimp cocktail:

1. 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!
2. 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!
3. 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
4. a great add-in is chunked octopus.

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