Peel and eat shrimp cocktail, if made properly, can make you feel like a million bucks. And what’s cool is that if you buy the right shrimp and use a few simple tips, it’s SUPER easy to make at home. I’ll share some of those tips with you in this video and give you a little crash course on choosing the best shrimps for the job. Get your martini shaker out baby, we’re having shrimp cocktail at home.
FOR A SHRIMP DE-VEINING DEMO SEE SHRIMP CURRY VIDEO @ 4:09 (Just be sure to devein and NOT peel when making shrimp cocktail) : https://youtu.be/haBRfhbJIxg
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0:00 – 1:20 what makes a great shrimp cocktail?
1:20-2:40 choosing the shrimp
2:40-4:31 cooking the shrimp
4:31-5:59 making the cocktail sauce
5:59 plating it up + tasting
FOR THE SHRIMP
1.5-2.5 LBS Shell on Large Sized Shrimp preferably easy to peel and U 8-12
2 Lemons
1 Head Garlic
12C. Water
125g or Roughly 1/2 C. Kosher Salt
90g or Roughly 1/2 C. Sugar
FOR THE COCKTAIL SAUCE
Zest and Juice of 1 Medium Lemon (2 TBPS Juice)
350g or 1 whole bottle Heinz Chili Sauce
8g or 1 TSP Hotsauce
40g or 2.5 TBSP Prepared Horseradish
2 TSP BLACK PEPPER (roughly 40 Cranks)
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46 Comments
Can’t wait to make this
Sugar in poaching liquid?! Who knew? No lea and perrins huh?
Nice video! I believe you'd like my videos too. Keep up with the great work! 💕❤️
#lornlovesshrimp
Chef your over the 1K mark congratulations. 🎉🎈🍾🎊 I think shrimp cocktail was a great video that you posted to secretly celebrate. I’m on to you and your subliminal messages. Seriously though keep the vids coming!!
Noice! We'll definitely give that a go! Loving the food and the production on your videos! 🙂
Congrats on hitting the 1k mark! You’ll be able to monetize soon!! 👏🏻
Made this last weekend. Easily the best shrimp cocktail I’ve ever had. Keep grinding.
All Day !!!
Made this for a nice night in with my wife. Big hit. Big shrimp worth the coin. Going on the list of items for when we have friends over.
Thank you for sharing
Who came here after watching the Q&A video when he said no one watched this? Determined to give this more views.
Not a fan of shrimp cocktail but I felt bad no one watched this video so I'm here 😂
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You lost all credibility when you failed to understand that U8 shrimp meant under 8 shrimp per pound
Just cooked this for lunch. Not sure how much of a fan I am of cocktail sauce (not your cocktail sauce B, but cocktail sauce in general). With the shrimps that I bought, it kinda took over instead of complimenting the shrimp. The sauce is delish but I would rather eat it with chips or something and have the shrimps with just fresh lemon. I might also have over-dipped – that's a filthy habit of mine.
The seasoned water from this recipe is KILLER – brought out even more taste from the fresh shrimps – absolutely doing that every single time from now on!
Making this tonight!
Manhattans are the best
I do my cocktail sauce the same as you with one exception. Just a shake or two of Worcestershire sauce which seems to add that little somethin’ somethin’ as a background note.
Brian, the poaching liquid bef the ice is still good to use to cook potatoes and little corn cobettes. Chili sauce I first saw on the old Everyday Food series, Emma used it to make a homemade doctored up basting sauce for chicken pieces.
"Buy good ingredients and not mess it up" LOL Loving your channel Brian!
Shrimp cocktail is one of my favorite things in the world. I’ll definitely give this recipe a try to take it to the BBoy level! Thanks!
I came here because you said no one watches this video in you Q&A session
wow you were right, no one watched this vid
The way you are describing a good cocktail sauce is making me realize every cocktail sauce I’ve ever had is terrible
2 AM Newport Beach laying in bed watching videos and I can’t sleep this video came on and now I’m starving and Wideawake even more all I can think of is shrimp and everything else you said in this video from start to finish is exactly how I think from your cocktail sauce filled with horseradish to the shrimp to saying it would be even better with a guy shaking a martini right next to me this is my dream scenario all the time I want to go to a place like that every single day thanks for the videos can’t wait to see more
You lost me at "shaken Manhattan or martini"
Made this gram for gram for my lady on Valentines Day, and as a wise man once said "GREAT SUCCESS"!
I used to make the cocktail sauce at the restaurant I worked at after college. We used chili sauce, horseradish, lemon juice, and parsley. As good as that was, I want to try Brian's version now. And his poaching method looks to be top notch.
Shame this doesn’t have more views. It is the best shrimp I’ve ever had.
Fantastic! I just graduated culinary arts school and worked in a higher end restaurant and learned shrimp poaching! OMG! I’m excited to make this at home! Yes they’re great at a restaurant but at home we can take our time not rushing as in a commercial production 👏 Thank you, lots of great tips!!
I’ve been making this similarly for years. I absolutely detest peeled and pre cooked shrimp and that crappy bottled sauce. It’s so easy to make your own!
I haven’t made my cocktail sauce with the chili sauce, only ketchup so I’ll try that next time. I tend to squeeze a teaspoon of mustard into mine also for a little zing as well.
Keeping that in mind, farmed shrimp are almost always pretty awful for the environment and have pretty serious human rights concerns depending on where they were farmed. I TRY to buy the better stuff but it’s definitely pricey.
Also. What’s up with the child portion of the shrimp? I can eat that as an app!
love this simple luxury!
LOVE your channel!!! but I cannot believe that you didn’t address the issue of health issues on Asian farmed shrimp. They are farmed with excessive amounts of antibiotics and often with traces of e-coli bacteria. Farmed shrimp is up to 10 times more heavy on the ecosystem than beef. And also what the industry does to the mangroves and local population in some of the Asian countries. ALWAYS choose MSC marked shrimp as well as fish! Love from Greenland.
Mane the one I just cooked were so fye
Nothing should be salty. Salt in larges amounts is very unhealthy. Learn how to cook.
I like mayo in my cocktail sauce 😅
I would watch a 45 minute video on shrimp.
Made this yesterday and it was a big hit! The shrimp was not over cooked or watery.
Thank you for making me look like I knew what I was doing.
Love it 🍤🦐
So excited to try this recipe Brian. I've boiled shrimp in the past – but haven't added the depth of flavour. Love your videos – learning lots and look forward to actually making a loaf of bread – maybe – we'll see! Your methods give me hope that I can do it. ! Anyhow, I digress … Love the shrimp vid – Cheers!!😎
Well Done Sir! You could easily pass for a Charlestonian!!! 🌙🌴🛥️🦐🦐🦐🦐🦐🦐🦐🦐🦐🦐🦐🦐🍺🍻🍺🍻🍺🍻
Great video dude
This is the only video that does it correctly.
Boiling it always makes it tough.
I came to this since in your Q & A you said no one watched it.
Gonna make this for my daughters b-day party this Saturday.
Warms my heart to hear "opens your nostrils" and "heavy on the horseradish" Bri. Man after my own heart.