Here’s a recipe for a super- simple way to make your own Homemade Cocktail Sauce:
I mentioned in my last post that my nephew Jordan visited us for Christmas this year. He brought his wife Stephanie and their adorable, perfect little girl Olivia, and we had a fabulous time. Jordan has been the executive chef at many restaurants. He creatively plans themed menus and does the majority of the cooking too. The dude is a talented guy.
It’s so much fun to have a chef in our family because I can totally relate to him and we have so much in common. While at our house, he made us a ton of awesome treats. On the day after Christmas, we decided to have a Tapas Night. Jordan whipped up some homemade cocktail sauce for us to dip our gigantic cooked shrimp into.
He started to prepare the cocktail sauce, and then he asked my husband where we kept the horseradish. OOPS… no horseradish in our house. Time to improvise. He scoured my fridge and my pantry for a spicy alternative and decided to sub pepperoncini for the horseradish.
We were all delighted to discover that the pepperoncini worked out GREAT. So in this recipe, you can either use pepperoncini OR horseradish. I’d say that the horseradish makes the sauce a little bit spicier.
If you’re celebrating in any way on New Year’s Eve this year, grab some fresh shrimp (you can even buy it already cooked), and make your own cocktail sauce. It’s the perfect, fancy way to ring in the New Year. And it’s a great recipe to serve with shrimp at all other celebrations during the year too!
Here are a few more homemade sauce recipes you might like to try:
- Chocolate Sauce
- Cola Barbecue Sauce
- Hot Butterscotch Sauce
- Best Thai Peanut Sauce
- Best Burger Sauce Recipe
- Homemade Marinara Sauce
- Teriyaki Sauce
- Red Pepper Tomato Sauce
Easy Cocktail Sauce Recipe
Ingredients
- 1½ cups ketchup
- 1½ cups chili sauce (like Heinz brand)
- 1/4 cup prepared horseradish (or finely chopped pepperoncini)
- 1/4 cup freshly squeezed lemon juice
- 3 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
Instructions
- Whisk all ingredients together in a large bowl. Cover and chill until ready to serve. Serve with cooked shrimp.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Love this and am adding it to my menu tonight. I love,love,love homemade cocktail sauce! Cheers to 2014!
I have some big fans of shrimp cocktail in the house- this should be a hit!
I love how easy this is. And now I’m craving shrimp cocktail!!
Wow! I’ve never made this myself, but am thinking that it would be worth doing shrimp cocktail just to sample it! Happy New Year to you and your family!
That’s exactly how I make it, except I leave out the Worcester Sauce, For me, the more horseradish, the better. Now I am salivating and luckily I have some frozen shrimp in the freezer. YUMMM
what also works well is wasabi powder, if out of horseradish
Wonderful cocktail sauce recipe! Loooove shrimp cocktail.
Wishing you a wonderful upcoming 2014, Lori! Can’t wait to read more Recipe Girl posts in the new year 🙂
I love the last minute sub of pepperocini! Very creative. There’s nothing better than a good shrimp cocktail.
I’ve been making cocktail sauce since I was a child. It’s so easy. I could never imagine buying the bottled stuff.
I didn’t know home made cocktail sauce was so easy! Perfect for all that NYE shrimp eatin’ I have planned 🙂 Thanks for the recipe!