Prawn cocktail

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Prawn cocktail

Alternative names	Shrimp cocktail
Course	Hors d'oeuvre
Main ingredients	Prawns, cocktail sauce
Media: Prawn cocktail

Prawn cocktail, also known as shrimp cocktail, is a seafood dish consisting of shelled, cooked prawns in a Marie Rose sauce or cocktail sauce,^[1] served in a glass.^[2][3] It was the most popular hors d'œuvre in Great Britain, as well as in the United States, from the 1960s to the late 1980s.^[4] According to the English food writer Nigel Slater, the prawn cocktail "has spent most of (its life) see-sawing from the height of fashion to the laughably passé" and is now often served with a degree of irony.^[5]

The cocktail sauce is essentially ketchup and mayonnaise in Commonwealth countries, or ketchup and horseradish in the United States.^[6] Recipes may add Worcestershire sauce, hot sauce, vinegar, cayenne pepper or lemon juice.