What is a cocktail sauce?

Cocktail sauce is a tomato -based sauce. It gets the name of its classic use as an accompaniment for seafood salads, which are served as appetizers at cocktail parties. The tomato base usually has a taste flavor that complements seafood.

The basic cocktail sauce always starts with tomato sauce, tomato puree, ketchup, chili sauce or any combination of any types of tomato sauces. Most recipes require an aroma such as red pepper and/or horseradish sauce. They also include ground garlic, pepper, parsley or coriander and sometimes chopped celery. Red wine or vinegar is also often used by vinegar and almost every cocktail sauce will have added lemon juice or lime juice. In the classic presentation, Jumbo shrimp is neatly located around the edge of a bowl with a sauce located in the center as a immersion. Another common way to serve is with smaller shrimp and/or pieces of of crab or lobster serves in a bowl of sauceou top or laminated with seafood.

Many different versions are possible and are limited only by imagination. For example, a Mexican type of sauce can use salsa as a base and chopped chili peppers and cumin to taste it. The Mediterranean version could have tomato sauce, balsamic vinegar, garlic, lemon juice and black olives.

Cocktail sauce is great for serving finger food such as jumbo shrimp and cheese and cookies at cocktail parties. Of course, double immersion is the definitive "no" when people are served shared sauces. The double immersion is to immerse a piece of food in the sauce, bite it and soak it again and should never be done when the food plate is shared by a group of people.

In oysters, oysters plates are often served with cocktail sauce and lemon wedges. Cocktail forks are used to hold oysters for immersion. It is said that the sauce can cause thatEating raw oysters will be tastier. With this sauce you can also eat singing shrimp and other fried sea food.