Ultimate makeover recipe for 4 people, takes only 20 mins; recipe has prawn, lime juice, cucumber, white wine vinegar, dill, avocado, watercress, cayenne pepper, mayonnaise, fromage frais, tomato ketchup, tabasco sauce, worcestershire sauce and brandy.
The ultimate makeover: Prawn cocktail
Course: Ultimate makeover
Servings
4
servings
Prep time
35 mins
Ingredients
- Lime Juice: 2 tbsp lime juice
- Dill: 1 tbsp snipped dill
- Mayonnaise: 2 tbsp mayonnaise
- Cucumber: 100g/4oz cucumber
- Cayenne Pepper: pinch cayenne pepper, for sprinkling
- White Wine Vinegar: 1 tbsp white wine vinegar
- Avocado: 1 small ripe avocado
- Watercress: 50g watercress
- Prawn: 650g prawns in their shells, cooked (to give 200g/8oz cooked, peeled prawns)
- Worcestershire Sauce: splash Worcestershire sauce
- Tabasco Sauce: splash Tabasco sauce
- Fromage Frais: 5 tbsp fromage frais
- Tomato Ketchup: 1 1/2 tbsp tomato ketchup
- Brandy: 1 tsp brandy
Directions
- Peel the prawns. Rinse them in a large sieve under a cold tap, then pat dry with kitchen paper. Lay the prawns in a shallow dish and squeeze over 1 tbsp of the lime juice, then add a twist of pepper. Set aside.
- Chop the cucumber into small dice and tip into a dish. Spoon over the vinegar, scatter over the dill and a grating of pepper, then set aside. Halve, stone and peel the avocado, then chop into small dice. Spoon over the rest of the lime juice and toss together gently with a twist of pepper.
- For the sauce, mix together the mayonnaise, fromage frais and ketchup. Stir in the Tabasco, Worcestershire and brandy with a twist of pepper.
- To serve, put a small spoonful of the sauce into the bottom of each cocktail glass. Very coarsely chop most of the watercress, leaving a few sprigs whole. Lay the chopped watercress on top of the sauce. Drain the cucumber well, then spoon it over the watercress with the avocado. Pile over the prawns, then spoon over the rest of the sauce. Tuck in the sprigs of watercress and serve with a sprinkling of cayenne.
