Prawn Cocktail Crumpets
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| Preparation: 30 minutes | Serves: 8 crumpets |
| Cooking: None | Cold-buttered crumpets |
| Ingredients | Quantity (metric) | Quantity (imperial) |
|---|---|---|
| Sauce | ||
| Mayonnaise | 5 tbsp | 5 tbsp |
| Salad cream | 2.5 tbsp | 2.5 tbsp |
| Tomato ketchup | 2.5 tbsp | 2.5 tbsp |
| Brandy | 1.5 tbsp | 1.5 tbsp |
| Tabasco sauce | 1.5 tbsp | 1.5 tbsp |
| Lemon juice | 1.5 tbsp | 1.5 tbsp |
| Salt and pepper | Plenty | Plenty |
| Salad | ||
| Rocket | 70 g | 2.5 oz |
| Cucumber (cut into batons) | 1 | 1 |
| Celery stalks (finely cubed) | 2 | 2 |
| Spring onions (finely sliced) | 4 | 4 |
| Red pepper (cut into batons) | 1 | 1 |
| Large red chilli (de-seeded and finely chopped) | 1/2 | 1/2 |
| Large prawns (cooked and peeled) | 150 g | 5.25 oz |
| Cayenne pepper | Plenty | Plenty |
METHOD
- Mix all the ingredients together, taste, and refine if necessary.
- You guessed it: mix all the ingredients together.
- There is more cocktail sauce in this recipe than you'd find in most others, to give the crumpets extra moisture.
- Our preferred order of assembly is: red pepper, cucumber, prawns, sauce, celery, spring onion, chilli, cayenne pepper, with the rocket sitting alongside.
The sauce
The salad
The crumpets
OTHER NOTES
If you've ever seen a documentary about the devastation that trawling for prawns has caused to many Asian seas, you'll appreciate that buying responsibly sourced prawns is the right thing to do.
Prawn / cucumber /spring onion / red pepper / chilli
