31 Days of Christmas: Creamy avocado and prawn cocktail recipe

If you’re still trying to find the perfect starter for your Christmas lunch or dinner, we’ve found the perfect recipe for you. This creamy avocado and prawn cocktail recipe is super quick and easy to prepare, and your guests will love every scrumptious bite.

Also known as a shrimp cocktail, this dish has been around for many decades, having gone in and out of fashion many times over the years.

The prawn cocktail first really gained traction in the United Kingdom when British television chef Fanny Cradock whipped up the dish in the 1960s.

The dish consists of shelled, cooked prawns in a Marie Rose sauce or cocktail sauce. It was the most popular appetiser in Great Britain and the United States from the 1960s to the late 1980s.

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We found this really quick and easy recipe for you to test on your family this weekend. If they love it, you can serve it at your Christmas lunch or dinner as well.

Ingredients for prawn cocktail recipe:

• 1 avocado, halved, stone removed, peeled, coarsely chopped
• 1 Lebanese cucumber, or a small English cucumber, finely chopped
• 1/2 small red onion, finely chopped
• 125g (1/2 cup) mayonnaise
• 1 tbsp tomato sauce
• 2 tsp worcestershire sauce
• 1 tbsp fresh lemon juice
• 6 drops red Tabasco pepper sauce
• 8 iceberg lettuce leaves
• 24 (about 2kg) cooked large king prawns, peeled leaving tails intact
• Lemon wedges, to serve

Method:

1. Combine the avocado, cucumber and onion in a medium bowl.
2. Whisk together the mayonnaise, tomato sauce, Worcestershire sauce, lemon juice and Tabasco in a bowl.
3. Line each serving glass with 1 lettuce leaf. Finely shred the remaining lettuce leaves and divide among the glasses. T
4. op with the avocado mixture and prawns.
5. Drizzle over the mayonnaise mixture.
6. Serve with lemon wedges.

This recipe was found on taste.com.au.