How To Make Shrimp Cocktail
This shrimp cocktail recipe is made with a delicious poached shrimp tossed with flavorful spices and served with a homemade cocktail sauce.
Preparation: 5 minutes
Cooking: 15 minutes
Total: 20 minutes
Serves:
Ingredients
- 1lemon,cut into 8 wedges
- 8cupscold water
- ¼yellow onion,sliced
- 2garlic cloves,peeled and bruised
- 2tspfresh tarragon
- 1tspwhole black peppercorns
- 1bay leaf
- 2lbsshrimp,peeled and deveined
- 1cupcocktail sauce,homemade recipe
Instructions
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Add half the lemon pieces, water, onion, garlic, tarragon, black peppercorns, and bay leaf to a large pot and bring it to a boil.
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Prepare a large bowl of ice water.
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Add the shrimp and cook for 2 minutes then remove. Quickly place it in the cold water for 5 minutes before serving with cocktail sauce and remaining lemon wedges.
Nutrition
- Calories: 84.95kcal
- Fat: 1.19g
- Saturated Fat: 0.31g
- Trans Fat: 0.02g
- Monounsaturated Fat: 0.21g
- Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.35g
- Carbohydrates: 2.04g
- Fiber: 0.21g
- Sugar: 0.18g
- Protein: 15.61g
- Cholesterol: 142.88mg
- Sodium: 651.82mg
- Calcium: 75.21mg
- Potassium: 148.36mg
- Iron: 0.39mg
- Vitamin A: 62.00µg
- Vitamin C: 0.66mg
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