Gosh this is so good just made both today while in HOUSTON TX x x

 

Shrimp –Vs–Prawns.

 

Please don’t ask for shrimp in Britain.  You will get A little pink curled up thing so tiny that you have ever seen that  resemble a shrimp, they are not even the size of American salad shrimp!  You certainly won’t like what you receive.  The British mainly use shrimp for cooking with rice,  or potted shrimp is an excellent dish for an appetizer or starter spread on toast or crackers.  You can also cut the  cost if making a prawn (shrimp) cocktail by mixing shrimps with prawns as there called in Britain.  They are very, very expensive; they will be a treat served on special occasions such as birth, deaths, marriages, birthdays and Christmas parties.  I always feel sorry for the deceased person at a funeral missing out on a beautiful prawn cocktail.

You will still get a choice of size of your prawns in Britain but they will not be count size as in America.  You have to buy them by the half pound (8oz ) or pound (16oz).The difference in our two recipes is quite amazing to say that they are technically called the same thing.

You really should try both of these to see such differences once more of our two cultures.  Again we don’t say one is better than the other we just say both are excellent, just different.

In UK we serve ours with Brown Bread and Butter cut into TRIANGLES! NOT SQUARES

 

Prawn cocktail English

 

250 g large cooked and peeled cold water prawns

4 large shell on Prawns for decoration

4 tablespoons mayonnaise

2 tablespoons ketchup

Juice of 1 Lemon – plus a  lemon cut into 4 lemon slices for the decoration

1Teaspoon Horseradish sauce

1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce

1 Iceberg lettuce , shredded

½ a cucumber chopped small

2 tomatoes chopped small

A few sprinkles of paprika for decoration in the Top

In cocktail glasses

Layer Lettuce cucumber tomatoes add a quarter of the Prawns to each glass

In a mixing bowl add al the wet ingredients whisk until smooth and creamy

Place the sauce on each top of the prawns

Sprinkle with Paprika

Decorate by cutting half way through a thin slice of cucumber and use the cut to fix the slice to the rim of the glass add a slice  of lemon cut the same way as cucumber -hang the tail of a shell on prawn to each glass rim

Serve with Brown bread & Butter cut into triangles

 

If you are making a large Prawn cocktail I layer it all on a wooden platter great a parties

 

American Shrimp Cocktail

Large Shrimp 32

1 cup chili sauce or Ketchup if you don’t like it too hot
2 tablespoons horseradish sauce
1/4 teaspoon granulated sugar
Pinch of  salt
Pinch of  freshly-cracked Pepper
2 teaspoons freshly-squeezed lemon
4 drops hot sauce (Tabasco)
splash of  Worcestershire Sauce
1 clove of garlic minced or grated

 

In a bowl whisk ingredient together until smooth

Place into 4 cocktail glasses

Hang shrimp (Prawns) around the rim of the glass by their tails