The Shrimp Cocktail or Coctel de Camarones, is a Peruvian dish traditional from the sourthern of Peru. It is made in Arequipa Region, in main cities of this department. This dish is not only from Peru. There are many countries en Latin America, than they made cocktails too. One of popular on USA is Mexican Shrimp Cocktail, but others rich taste cockails are “Coctel de Camarones Colombiano”, the “Coctel de Camarones Cubano” and many others.
Peruvian Coctel de camarones – Shrimp Cocktail Recipe
The shrimp cocktail is an exquisite stew that we are blessed to try and make at any time because there is no place where it is not prepared, and we also have the facility to get its ingredients to be able to make it since they are at our fingertips. Now there are no excuses to dare to delight our palate with this exquisite culinary work. So come and join me to discover this fabulous shrimp cocktail recipe.There is nothing better than consuming dishes based on marine ingredients, such as ceviche, tiger milk and the exquisite shrimp cocktail.
Ingredients
- 1 kg shrimp
- 4 tbsp ketchup
- 2 tsp Worcestershire sauce
- 2 tsp orange juice
- 2 tsp pisco
- 6 leaf of lettuce
- 2 avocado in dices
- salt
- 4 boiled eggs in 4 pieces
Instructions
- At first, you will make the golf sauce by making a homemade mayonnaise to which we add a whole of ketchup, drops of Worcestershire sauce, drops of orange juice and drops of pisco.
- Now you cook shrimp in their shell only for a couple of minutes and then peel them and season them with salt.
- After that, you cut an avocado into small pieces, cut hard-boiled eggs in and cut lettuce into julienne strips.
- At last, you put everything in layers in a glass, beginign with lettuce, avocado, golf sauce, and pieces of cut shimp tails, then put the shrimp tails around the glass border
Notes
The shrimp cocktail was created in 1941 in a Boston bar that was close to a port. Taking advantage of the abundance of shrimp in the area, the owner of the bar made this fabulous cocktail.
Nutritional value of Shrimp Cocktail
The shrimp cocktail for its ingredients provides a large amount of proteins, iodine, essential fatty acids (omega 3) and vitamins of the B complex that helps the growth and development of the nervous system, it also contains minerals such as selenium, potassium, phosphorus and zinc. It is recommended to consume it in moderation.
Secret
you can add a little tabasco and a little of the coral that the shrimp hides on its head to the golf sauce.
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