Mexican-Style Shrimp Cocktail
In our family we love preparing and eating this Mexican-Style Shrimp Cocktail. It is one of several dishes which brings memories of Mexico to our mind, especially of life in Tepatitlan, Jalisco, where Alexandra is from.
Whenever we are in Tepatitlan Alexander spends most of his mornings at “La marisqueria Venegas” as he enjoys eating a big shrimp cocktail and some ceviche. The restaurant is run by one of Alexandra`s cousins but as much as we love supporting family this is not the main reason why Alexander loves going there. Fernando, the owner of the restaurant, is an amazing cook and constantly comes up with new creations. One can feel that his team loves working with him at the restaurant and we have only heard praise and admiration from his customers. His menu has an immense variety of ceviches and on each trip we discover new flavour creations of his! For example ceviche with a jamaica-chili sauce or mango ceviche. The home-made ketchup and the home-made hot sauce of course are also amazing, but beware, the spiciness of the sauce will give you a kick!
With our Mexican-Style Shrimp Cocktail, we tried to recreate how Fernando makes his shrimp cocktail, however with ingredients which are available all over the world and with easy steps.
If you talk about shrimp cocktail with Europeans, they will think of shrimp cocktails with a mayonnaise based sauce. It’s a very heavy type of shrimp cocktail and not comparable with the amazing taste of the Mexican shrimp cocktail.
Shrimp is high in several vitamins and minerals, and is a rich source of protein. By adding lemon juice it also contains a high degree of vitamin C. Therefore, this makes it a perfect breakfast and best fuel for a good start of the day. That must also be the reason why it’s a typical breakfast dish in Mexico.
We hope you enjoy our interpretation of the recipe and love it as much as we do!
The video of the recipe can be found at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAh4dJjo9KQ
Mexican-Style Shrimp Cocktail
Ingredients
- 2 l. water
- 500 g. shrimp raw
- 4 tomatoes
- 4 tbsp sugar
- 1 pinch of salt
- 1 onion
- 1 cucumber
- 2 avocados
- 2 lemon
- ketchup
- hot sauce (any you like)
Instructions
- Boil the 2 l of water and add the shrimp to cook. Take them out once they are pink and put them aside. Keep the shrimp broth as it's also part of the final shrimp cocktail
- Blend the tomatoes, the sugar and the salt in a blender to make a tomato puree and put aside in a bowl.
- Chop up the onion into fine pieces and put it aside in a bowl.
- Skin the cucumber, remove the seeds, chop it up into fine pieces and put it aside in a bowl.
- Chop up the avocado into small pieces (easy way how to can be seen in the video)
- To make each shrimp cocktail add to a dessert bowl 2 tbsp of the tomato puree, 2 tbsp of the cucumber pieces, 1 tbsp of onion, avocado and shrimp to liking, juice of half a lemon, 2 1/2 ladles of the shrimp broth.
- Add ketchup (3 tbsp) and hot sauce (1 tsp) to taste. The shrimp cocktail should have a balanced sweet and hot taste but every person may enjoy it slightly different so no exact measurements are given here.
- Mix all ingredients, taste and add more ketchup or hot sauce if needed.
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Great recipe, easy to make and delicious