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Summary: Basic Ingredients for making a shrimp cocktail; learn what ingredients you'll need and how much to buy for your party in this free online recipe video.
Richard Buccola is an entrepreneur and investor. He is also the owner of several popular food & spirits establishments in Queens, NY, including the former PJ's Bar & Grill, and The Ivy...read more
"Hi! This is Richard Buccola here in New York City and on behalf of Expert Village, today I am going to show you how to make Shrimp Cocktail. Alright, so I just want to talk about the ingredients. You are going to need to get some fresh shrimp and I will talk about how to buy it but for right now, I have a pound of shrimp. A pound of jumbo shrimp is going to serve about 4 people giving them like 4 or 5 shrimp each. It is expensive and we will talk costs later. So a pound of shrimp you need to serve a few friends coming over. It is a great way to have friends come over and say here's a glass of wine. Here is a little something. I've got dinner in the kitchen but mingle. It is a nice way to get people in your house and a little snack to keep them full. So getting back to our ingredients. My water, I'm just going to put some bay leaf when I boil my water, that is how I am going to cook them. I am going to put in some pepper and salt, a little garlic powder, a little seasoning salt and a little Rosemary leaf. As far as the shrimp, all you have to do is boil them in the water so there is your ingredients. Cocktail sauce; you can go out and make a cocktail sauce and I think it is a $1.69, very cheap or today I could just show you how to make it fresh with some ketchup, horseradish and fresh lime and some of course kicker, that's the hot sauce. So when I get back, we are going to start putting this together. It is Shrimp Cocktail. "
eHow Article: Ingredients Needed to Make Shrimp Cocktail