Make your own restaurant quality Homemade Shrimp Cocktail Sauce with just 5 ingredients in your very own kitchen. Bold, tangy, and zesty with the perfect bite from horseradish.
Homemade Shrimp Cocktail Sauce
Would you believe that restaurant quality Shrimp Cocktail Sauce is at your finger tips with only FIVE ingredients?! So simple, and so delicious!
Homemade Shrimp Cocktail Sauce has a robust, bold flavor with the perfect amount of bite from horseradish. It is excellent served with cold shrimp cocktail, fried shrimp, or other seafood.
Make this recipe the day before so that the flavors have time to marry, and you'll have the best shrimp cocktail sauce you ever tasted!
Horseradish
The ingredient that gives shrimp cocktail sauce its signature bold bite is horseradish. The recipe calls for "prepared horseradish." This is horseradish that has been grated and is usually in a liquid like vinegar to preserve.
Stay away from the creamy horseradish, which is in a mayo-like sauce. This will not give you as bold of a flavor and will turn your sauce pink.
Does Making Your Own Shrimp Cocktail Sauce Really Make a Difference?
Yes! Not only is it fresher, you can also personalize it to your own tastes, adding more or less lemon or horseradish depending on the flavors you love. PLUS! It is significantly cheaper to make at home.
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- Remoulade Sauce - another sauce that's delicious on seafood! This one is creamy and zesty with a Creole kick.
- Homemade Tartar Sauce - a creamy, tangy sauce with pickles and lemon that is excellent on fried fish and seafood.
- Homemade Alfredo Sauce - a super simple sauce (no roux required!) that is the perfect rich, creamy, garlic, parmesan combination, and is amazing served on pasta, chicken, or seafood.
- Creamy Horseradish Sauce - this creamy sauce can cut the richness of a meat such as pork chops or prime rib while adding a creamy, zesty bite.
Homemade Shrimp Cocktail Sauce Video
Homemade Shrimp Cocktail Sauce
Ingredients
- ½ cup ketchup
- 2 to 4 tablespoons prepared horseradish to taste, depending on how zesty you like yours!
- 1 teaspoon fresh lemon juice
- ½ teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
- Dash of tabasco
Instructions
- Combine all ingredients together in a mixing bowl. Stir to combine.
- Adjust amount of horseradish, if necessary.
- Store in an air tight container in the refrigerator until use.
- Enjoy with your favorite shrimp!
Nutrition
UPDATE INFO: This recipe was originally published in December 2018. It was updated with new pictures, tips, and video and republished in September 2024.
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MiMi says
Tastes great.... thanks for posting.