Prawn Cocktail

Submitted by Young cook ellie

"The classic dish, loved the world over. This recipe comes from Nigella Lawson, and really is a lot simpler then you might think to prepare."

 

• Ready In: 10mins
• Ingredients: 7
• Serves: 6

ingredients

• 450 g small peeled cooked prawns
• 200 g salad cream
• 3 tablespoons tomato ketchup
• 1 tablespoon lemon juice
• 3 drops Tabasco sauce
• 3 heads little gem lettuce
• 1 tablespoon pink peppercorns, crushed

directions

1. Make sure the prawns are drained well of their briny liquid.
2. Mix the salad cream, ketchup, lemon juice and Tabasco in a bowl.
3. Tip in the prawns and mix to coat them in the Marie-Rose sauce.
4. Finally shred the lettuce, and arrange as a bed on six small plates or shallow bowls.
5. Divide the prawns in their sauce on the centre of each plate in a kind of pyramid, and then scatter with roughly crushed peppercorns or dust with paprika.
6. As long as the prawns were properly thawed and drained before you started immersing them in their famous coral pink sauce, it does not matter if they sit for a good few hours in the fridge before being dolloped out onto their lettuce-lined dishes.

Reviews

[SarasotaCook]

It was a nice recipe. Made a wonderful lunch. I happen to have the salad cream for another recipe I made recently, so this was perfect. A nice simple dish.<br/>Thx, Made for PAC 2011