Name: Cocktail Sauce For Seafood
Prep time: 5 min
Total time: 20 min
Yield: 175
Cuisine: New Zealand
Ingredients: ¼ cup thickened/whipping cream; ¼ cup tomato sauce (ketchup); ⅛ cup Worcestershire sauce; ¼ cup mayonnaise; 1 tsp Tabasco sauce; 2 tsp Lemon Juice

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Discover the perfect accompaniment for seafood with this Seafood Cocktail Sauce recipe.
Made using simple ingredients, this is super easy to make, delicious and ready in minutes.
This seafood cocktail sauce takes fresh prawns or seafood to another level.

It’s really worth making your own dipping sauces when you’ve invested in fresh juicy seafood such as prawns, crayfish/lobster, shrimp, crab and mussels.

The stuff in jars lacks the fresh flavour of homemade seafood sauces and just doesn’t do prawns justice!
A must try cocktail sauce recipe with mayonnaise that goes with much more than just seafood.

Yield: 175 ml

Cocktail Sauce For Seafood

Prep Time: 5 minutes

Additional Time: 15 minutes

Total Time: 20 minutes

This is a simple cocktail sauce for seafood that can be created in no time at all.
Serve as a cocktail or dipping sauce with fish, crayfish/lobster, mussels, shrimps or oysters.

A delicious seafood cocktail sauce, mild yet tangy, the perfect marriage to prawns, lobster, and ideal for serving as a seafood dipping sauce or to add to a prawn cocktail.

Ingredients

¼ cup thickened/whipping cream
¼ cup tomato sauce (ketchup)
⅛ cup Worcestershire sauce
¼ cup mayonnaise
1 tsp Tabasco sauce
2 tsp Lemon Juice

Instructions

Whip cream lightly.
Combine remaining ingredients in a bowl.
Fold whipped cream through the sauce gently.
Put in a bowl and refrigerate.

Notes

If you need to make this seafood cocktail sauce in advance, store the sauce in a jar or airtight container in the fridge for up to 3 or 4 days.
Bring back to room temperature and use.

Seafood Sauce Recipe Variations

Seafood cocktail sauce with brandy

Substitute the lemon juice with 2 tsp Brandy.
The brandy will really give it more depth.

Cocktail Sauce For Prawns

This is a fantastic cocktail sauce for prawns.
You can create a prawn cocktail by tossing your cold prawns or seafood through sauce and serve on a bed of lettuce as an appetiser.

If you are using whole prawns, remove heads and peel them.
Leave a few whole for decorative purposes, if you wish.
I find that with medium size already cooked prawns, deveining is usually not necessary.
Make your seafood cocktail sauce as per the recipe in a small bowl.
Toss prawns with Sauce.
You only want a thin coating, not dripping.
Place a bit of lettuce in serving dishes. You can use any small serving vessel, or even small lettuce cups.
Fill with prawns. Serve, garnished with lemon wedges.

Prawn Dip

This creamy seafood cocktail sauce makes a great prawn dip.
It is ideal to serve as a prawn dipping sauce with the prawns on toothpicks.

Using whole prawns, remove heads and peel them.
Make your seafood cocktail sauce as per the recipe in a small bowl.
Skewer the prawns with toothpicks and arrange on a platter on a layer of fresh lettuce leaves.
Serve alongside your bowl of prawn dip.

Uses For This Seafood Cocktail Sauce

Serve as a cocktail or dipping sauce with fish, crayfish/lobster, mussels, shrimps or oysters.
Add to nacho chips and cheese, warm in microwave or oven.
Add to a good meatloaf recipe or use as a topping.
Add to cream cheese and make dip.
Make sweet n sour sauce by adding orange marmalade or sweet juices and bake on pork or beef.
Dollop on top of your ham and cheese omelette.
Serve deep-fried mushrooms on toothpicks dipped in sauce.
Smear on fish cakes.
This cocktail sauce is great on burgers or hot dogs.
Dollop on the top of deviled eggs as a fingerfood or appetiser.
Use as a dip for these bacon wrapped oysters.
Drizzle on avocado toast for unique flavours.