Seafood Cocktail Salad
From warsawnan 13 years ago
- 30 minutes to make
- Serves Party-size!
Shrimp cocktail fans will love this refreshing salad! This recipe makes about 2 gallons, for a party, but you can easily scale it down. Just toss together your desired quantity of salad ingredients and mix up the cocktail sauce adding the horseradish a little at a time until you've got the heat you want.
Ingredients
Salad
- 4 lbs. shrimp, cooked, peeled & deveined (got mine in the frozen food section) shopping list
- 4 lbs. artificial crab, chunks shopping list
- 6 cucumbers shopping list
- 2 bunches celery hearts shopping list
- 4 yellow bell peppers shopping list
- 1 head lettuce, shredded shopping list
Cocktail Sauce
- 64 ounces ketchup shopping list
- 6 Tablespoons double-strength horseradish shopping list
- 3 large lemons shopping list
How to make it
Prep Note
- The only difficult part of this recipe is finding a container large enough to mix it in. I use the Tupperware "Thatsa(tm) Bowl" 32-cup mega mixing bowl, and I still had to mix it up in two batches.
Cocktail Sauce
- Empty a 64-ounce bottle of ketchup into a large bowl. Juice the lemons and pour the juice into the ketchup bottle and swish it around to get the remaining ketchup. Pour it into the bowl and add bits of the lemon pulp. Stir in the horseradish.
Salad
- Peel the cucumbers, but not completely See Photo. You want to leave some strips of the peel for color contrast. Slice in quarters lengthwise and remove the seeds. Cut the cucumbers into chuncks. Cut the celery into chunks about the same size as the cucumbers. Your cucumber and celery chunks should be close in size to your seafood.
- Cut the bell peppers in half and remove seeds. Cut into thin strips. See Photo
- Put the shrimp, artificial crab, cucumbers, celery and bell peppers into a jumbo mixing bowl. Pour on the cocktail sauce and mix well.
- Cover the bottom of your serving dish with a 1-inch thick layer of the shredded lettuce. Spoon the seafood cocktail salad on top of the lettuce. Garnish around the side with slices or wedges of lemon.
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I was at the party yesterday and it was SCRUMPTIOUS!!! I'm Nan's big brother and this was a very big hit at the party with everybody. It was a great party too.
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