How to Make Cocktail Sauce

What better to go with shrimp at your next cocktail party than cocktail sauce? This classic shrimp dipper is the perfect pairing for everyone's favorite sea delicacy.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• 1/2 cup of ketchup
• 1/2 cup of chili sauce
• 2-3 teaspoons of prepared horseradish
• 1 teaspoon of worcestershire sauce

1. In a small bowl, combine all the ingredients and mix well.

2. Chill in the fridge uncovered for about a half an hour.

3. Arrange your shelled deveined cooked shrimp on a round serving platter, lining the shrimp around the edge of the platter in a circle. In the center of the platter, place a small or medium dip cup filled with the cocktail sauce. Serve.

Tips & Warnings

• To add zest to your cocktail sauce you may add a dash or two of Tabasco sauce.
• On the serving platter, for presentation purposes, you can place a white round doile to go underneath the shrimp and dip.
• In the dip cup, you can place a small cocktail serving spoon so guests can place some dip on their plate along with some shrimp.
• Instead of cooking, deveining and cooking the shrimp ahead of time, a speedy solution would be to purchase frozen shrimp at your local grocery store. You can usually find a large freezer filled with frozen shrimp you can place into a bag with a scoop and buy by the pound. This frozen shrimp is usually pre-cooked and shelled but simply frozen. All you have to do is defrost it by placing it in a strainer in the sink and running some lukewarm water over it until the shrimp become soft enough to bite into.
• Make sure the shrimp is shelled, deveined, and cooked before it is ready to be served.
• Do not leave the shrimp platter out for very long. Any type of seafood that stays out at room temperature for long amounts of time will begin to harbor bacteria after a long while.
• If the shrimp must stay out for long periods of time, place the shrimp in a bowl with some ice and serve the cocktail sauce seperately.