Prawn cocktail with yogurt Marie Rose sauce
15 min · 28 g protein · 191 cals / serving
The seventies dinner-party starter that never left the British Christmas table: small, sweet cold-water prawns on a bed of shredded iceberg in a glass, coated in a tangy, rosy cocktail sauce, dusted with paprika and finished with a wedge of lemon on the rim. Thick yogurt carries the sauce here, so it clings to every prawn.
Ingredients
Marie Rose sauce
- 1/2 cup nonfat Greek yogurt
- 2 tbsp light mayonnaise
- 2 tbsp ketchup
- 1/2 tsp Worcestershire sauce
- 2 tsp lemon juice
- a few drops hot sauce
- 1 small pinch salt
- 14 oz shrimp, cooked and peeled, thawed if frozen and patted dry
- 1/2 small head iceberg lettuce, finely shredded
- 1/3 cucumber, finely diced
- 1/2 avocado, diced
- 1/2 tsp paprika, to dust
- a few fresh chives, snipped
- a grind black pepper
Steps
- Stir the yogurt, mayonnaise, ketchup, Worcestershire sauce, lemon juice, hot sauce and salt together until smooth and evenly pink. Taste and adjust: more lemon for sharpness, more hot sauce for a kick. Chill while you get everything else ready.
- Pat the prawns dry on kitchen paper (wet prawns thin the sauce) and stir about two thirds of the sauce through them.
- Divide the lettuce, cucumber and avocado between four glasses or small bowls.
- Pile the dressed prawns on top and spoon over the rest of the sauce. Dust with paprika, scatter with chives and a grind of pepper and serve cold, with lemon wedges.
Good to know
Which prawns should I buy?
Cooked, peeled cold-water prawns are the classic: small, sweet and tender. Larger king prawns look grander; halve them if they are very big. Thaw frozen prawns overnight in the fridge and drain them well.
Brown bread and butter on the side?
That is the traditional way, and a thin slice of buttered wholemeal is lovely with it. It is not counted in the recipe, so add it to your log if you have it.
Can I make it ahead?
Make the sauce up to 2 days ahead and keep it in the fridge. Dress the prawns and assemble the glasses no more than an hour before serving so the lettuce stays crisp.
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Per
- Calories
- 77
- Protein
- (59%)
- 11 g
- Fat
- (25%)
- 2 g
- Carbohydrates
- (16%)
- 4 g
- of which sugar
- 2 g
- Fiber
- 1 g
- Sodium
- 131 mg
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As written, 766 kcal goes into the pot and 1000 g of ingredients comes out as about 1000 g of food: 77 kcal per 100 g. Cooking moves water and energy density is the score's biggest lever, so the dish is scored as cooked, not as an average of its parts. Every ingredient links to its food page, with the same data and score. The label's percentages are each macronutrient's share of the calories. The full formula.