Basic Prawn Cocktail Recipe

A classic starter recipe, prawn cocktail is delicious and often features as a starter on Christmas day or another special occasion. This salad uses salad cream but you can use mayonnaise if you prefer. There are lots of different prawn cocktail recipes and you can add halved cherry tomatoes or thin cucumber slices if you want. As long as the prawns are well drained, this recipe keeps well in the fridge for a few hours before serving. This is a very basic recipe for prawn cocktail so if you are looking for something more elaborate, you might prefer to look at our classic prawn cocktail recipe instead.

Simple Cocktail Prawn Recipe

Ingredients -

3 heads little gem lettuce
1 tbsp lemon juice
200 g salad cream
3 tbsp tomato ketchup
450 g small prawns, peeled and cooked
Few drops Tabasco
1 tbsp pink peppercorns, crushed

Preparation:

Make sure the prawns are well drained. Combine the ketchup, salad cream, Tabasco and lemon juice. Tip in the prawns and mix to coat them in this sauce. Shred the lettuce finely and arrange it as a bed on 6 shallow bowls or plates. Divide the prawns between the plates, arranging them in pyramid type shapes. Scatter over paprika or roughly crushed pink peppercorns.

Serves 6