Irish Seafood Cocktail
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Author: adapted from The Complete Irish Pub Cookbook
Recipe type: Appetizer
Serves: 4
Ingredients
- For the Seafood Cocktail
- ½ package baby lettuce of your choice
- ½ English cucumber, seeded and cut into 2 inch sticks
- 1 cup crabmeat
- 18 jumbo cooked shrimp
- Sea salt flakes
- lemon slices
- paprika for garnish
- For the Cocktail Sauce
- ⅔ cup mayonnaise
- 2 tablespoons ketchup (I like Stonewall Country Ketchup)
- ½ teaspoon Cognac
- ¼ teaspoon Tabasco Sauce
Instructions
- Make the cocktail sauce by placing all ingredients in a bowl and mixing well.
- Divide the lettuce among four cocktail glasses or bowls. Place pieces of the cucumber slices on top of lettuce. Season with sea salt.
- Layer the crabmeat and shrimp on top of the cucumber. Add a dollop of cocktail sauce.
- Add another layer of shrimp and dollop of cocktail sauce.
- Garnish lemon slice, cucumber strips and a pinch of paprika.
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