This delicious Spanish recipe is a nice mix of my mother-in-law’s recipe she shared with me and my alterations to make it easier and with products easily found at your local Ralphs.
Prawn Cocktail with pink sauce is a very typical appetizer in the south of Spain, Malaga in particular. It is generally served for Christmas Eve Dinner, New Year’s Eve Dinner and for Three Kings Day. I think this is a great appetizer for Valentines Day too because of the pretty pink sauce! For the sake of this easy and fast recipe, I have replaced the steps of making the mayonnaise from scratch to just using the grocery bought one. I also replaced the spicy Spanish sauce with a readily available one at your local Ralphs.
Ingredients
The following ingredients were all purchased at my local Ralphs*:
For the Pink Sauce:
- Mayonnaise
- Ketchup
- Spicy sauce (like Valentina or Tapatio)
- Brandy
- Salt and Pepper to taste
For the cocktail:
– Cooked, deveined, tail-off shrimp
– Lettuce head chopped
– Imitation crab chopped
– 1 can pineapple chunks
Steps
For the sauce:
- In a small bowl, Mix the Mayonnaise, Ketchup, hot sauce and brandy, set aside. It should look light pink and creamy.
For the cocktail:
- In a large bowl, Mix cooked shrimp with chopped lettuce, chopped imitation crab and pineapple chunks.
- Mix in the sauce.
- Chill and serve.
Enjoy!
Please comment below if you like this Spanish recipe when you make it!
xoxo,
LA Mami,
Julie Lopez
*This post was sponsored by Ralphs
