Authentic Mexican Shrimp Cocktail Recipe

If you enjoy traditional Mexican recipes, you will enjoy this Mexican shrimp cocktail recipe. In Mexico, shrimp cocktail is made out of a spicy broth-like Mexican shrimp cocktail sauce, rather than a bed of lettuce and shrimps in dressing. These shrimp cocktails are served ice cream soda glasses so you can see the delicious layers.

Serve this recipe for Mexican shrimp cocktail with lime halves, diced avocado, sea salt, a dish of chopped cilantro, a dish of minced serrano chili and a hot sauce if you want to be authentic. Saltine crackers or tortilla chips are good for dipping and you can rub limejuice on them before dipping if you like. Do not forget the ice-cold margarita on the side!

The Best Recipe for Mexican Shrimp Cocktail

Ingredients -

For Poaching the Shrimp:

48 fresh, large shrimp with shells on
1 stick celery with leaves on
1 clove garlic
1 Roma tomato
1 white onion, peeled
1 carrot, washed but unpeeled
1 serrano chili, split from tip nearly to stem
5 stems of cilantro

For Making the Cocktail Sauce:

Broth left over from poaching the shrimp
1 ½ cups tomato catsup
Sea salt to taste
4 tablespoons minced Roma tomato
4 tablespoons minced cucumber
4 tablespoons minced white onion
Limejuice
½ teaspoon minced serrano chili
4 stems cilantro, roughly chopped

To Garnish:

½ cup guacamole
4 thick slices of lime

Preparation:

Poach the shrimp in simmering water with all the other poaching ingredients until the shrimp are pink but still very tender.

Discard the vegetables but keep the poaching liquid.

Shell the shrimp and chill them.

To serve, mix the catsup with the reserved poaching liquid, the sea salt, and a squeeze of fresh limejuice.

Divide the onion, tomato, and cucumber between 4 serving glasses and do the same with the serrano chili and cilantro.

Put 12 shrimp in each glass and pour the sauce over the top to cover everything.

Garnish each glass with a lime wedge and add a dollop of guacamole on top of the shrimp cocktail.

(Serves 4)

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