How to Make Cocktail Sauce at Home
If you are a seafood lover, you would also like cocktail sauce, which can add a zesty flavour to your seafood. The secret behind making a delicious cocktail sauce is adding the right quantity of ingredients. Cocktail sauce is typically served in seafood restaurants, but you can easily learn to make it at home without having to spend too much, because most of the ingredients that are used in it are most likely available in your kitchen. Once you try cocktail sauce with shrimps, it is guaranteed that you would never want to have seafood again without this brilliant side recipe.
Prep time: 5 min
Total time: 5 min
Yield: 1.5 cups
Utensils: a small sized bowl, wrapping papper and a spoon
Ingredients:
Ketchup: 1 cup
Horseradish: 1 or 2 tbsp. (as per your taste)
Lemon juice: 1 tbsp.
Worcestershire sauce: ½ tsp.
Salt: ¼ tsp
Pepper: 1 dash
Instructions
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Combine the ingredients
Once your seafood is ready, you need to take just 5 minutes out of your schedule for this outstanding cocktail sauce. Grab a small bowl and add horseradish, ketchup, Worcestershire sauce and lemon juice in it. You now need to stir the ingredients nicely with the help of a spoon.
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Add salt and pepper
Once you have mixed the ingredients nicely, you can add salt and pepper. Keep in mind that you can experiment with the quantity of salt and pepper according to your own taste. However, it is recommended that you add ¼ teaspoon of salt and just a dash of pepper.
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Place the sauce in the refrigerator
In order to make the most of your cocktail sauce, you need to properly chill it. Therefore, as soon as you are done mixing the ingredients, you should cover your cocktail sauce bowl with a wrapping paper and place it in the refrigerator. Some people like to let it sit in the refrigerator for about an hour before serving, but you must keep it inside the refrigerator for a minimum of 15 minutes at least.
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Garnish and serve
Once the cocktail sauce has been chilled, you can remove it from the refrigerator and garnish it with a sprig of parsley and a slice of lemon before serving.
Lemon juice: 1 tbsp.
Worcestershire sauce: ½ tsp.
Salt: ¼ tsp
Pepper: 1 dashNext%20stop%3A%20Pinterest "Pin It")
