Best Prawn Crab Cocktail Lettuce Cups Recipes

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CRAB LOUIE SALAD LETTUCE CUPS



Crab Louie Salad Lettuce Cups image

This take on the retro classic is a fun way to start a holiday dinner party. The recipe makes more Louie dressing than you think you might need-but that's a good thing.

Provided by Anna Stockwell

Categories     Appetizer     Christmas     Salad     Crab     Avocado     Capers     Horseradish     Lettuce     Tomato     New Year's Eve     Christmas Eve

Yield 8-10 servings

Number Of Ingredients 14

2 scallions, finely chopped
1 cup mayonnaise
1/4 cup ketchup-based chili sauce
3 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
2 teaspoons prepared horseradish
1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
1 pound jumbo lump crabmeat, picked over, drained
2 heads Boston Bibb or butter lettuce, separated into leaves
2 avocados, cut into 1/2" cubes
1 pint cherry tomatoes, halved, quartered if large
4 teaspoons capers, drained
1/4 cup chopped parsley

Steps:

  • Whisk scallions, mayonnaise, chili sauce, lemon juice, horseradish, Worcestershire sauce, salt, and pepper in a small bowl.
  • Toss crabmeat and 1/2 cup dressing in a medium bowl.
  • Divide lettuce leaves among plates (2-3 leaves on each). Divide crab mixture, avocado, and tomatoes among cups. Drizzle dressing over, then top with capers and parsley. Serve with additional dressing alongside.
  • Do Ahead
  • Dressing can be made 1 day ahead. Transfer to an airtight container and chill.

SPICY SHRIMP & CRAB COCKTAIL



Spicy Shrimp & Crab Cocktail image

This seafood starter is so good that it makes me love a food I usually don't-radishes! This recipe also calls for spicy V8, but Zing Zang Bloody Mary Mix works just as well. Serve the cocktail straight up, with tortilla chips or on a bed of butter lettuce. -Heidi Knaak, Liberty, Missouri

Provided by Taste of Home

Categories     Appetizers

Time 25m

Yield 12 servings (about 9 cups)

Number Of Ingredients 13

2 medium cucumbers, peeled, seeded and chopped
8 radishes, halved and thinly sliced (about 2 cups)
2 cups spicy hot V8 juice (about 16 ounces)
1 cup Clamato juice
1/2 cup finely chopped red onion
1/2 cup ketchup
5 jalapeno peppers, seeded and finely chopped
1/4 cup coarsely chopped fresh cilantro
2 garlic cloves, minced
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 pound peeled and deveined cooked small shrimp
1 pound lump crabmeat, drained
2 medium ripe avocados, peeled and cubed

Steps:

  • Mix the first 10 ingredients. Gently fold in shrimp, crab and avocados. Refrigerate, covered, at least 2 hours or until cold. Serve in martini glasses.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 162 calories, Fat 6g fat (1g saturated fat), Cholesterol 91mg cholesterol, Sodium 604mg sodium, Carbohydrate 11g carbohydrate (6g sugars, Fiber 3g fiber), Protein 17g protein.

PRAWN COCKTAIL CUPS



Prawn cocktail cups image

These retro starters can be made an hour in advance and handed round with drinks before dinner

Provided by Good Food team

Categories     Buffet, Dinner, Lunch, Snack, Starter

Time 20m

Number Of Ingredients 9

4-6 Little Gem lettuce hearts
350-400g/12-14oz cooked, peeled prawns
3 tbsp extra-virgin olive oil
2 tbsp lemon juice
4 tbsp coarsely chopped flat-leaf parsley
mustard and cress, to serve
100g mayonnaise
25g tomato ketchup
Tabasco sauce

Steps:

  • To make the Marie Rose sauce, blend the mayonnaise with the ketchup and a couple of shakes of Tabasco in a bowl. Trim the bases of the lettuce hearts, discard the outer leaves and separate the leaves - they need to be about 10cm long and you want about 24 in total. Reserve the tiny hearts for another salad.
  • Wash the prawns and pat dry between double layers of kitchen paper. Toss in a bowl with the olive oil, lemon juice, parsley and a little seasoning.
  • Lay the leaves out on serving plates, cup-side up. Drop several prawns into each. Dollop ½ tsp sauce on top, then scatter over some mustard and cress. These can be prepared 1 hr in advance, in which case cover with cling film and set aside in a cool place.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 176 calories, Fat 14 grams fat, SaturatedFat 2 grams saturated fat, Carbohydrate 2 grams carbohydrates, Sugar 2 grams sugar, Fiber 1 grams fiber, Protein 11 grams protein, Sodium 1.06 milligram of sodium

CRAB LOUIS



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This is a chilled salad invented by a Seattle chef-and I feel like that makes sense. It had to be a chef that had a ton of fresh seafood around that would create a dish like this. Honestly, it's a bit elaborate, but it's wonderful because it manages to be both casual and fancy at the same time. The sauce has a tingle of heat and some sweetness, too. It's almost like a slightly creamy cousin of shrimp cocktail, but with crabmeat.

Provided by Alex Guarnaschelli

Categories     appetizer

Time 35m

Yield 4 to 6 servings

Number Of Ingredients 14

1/2 cup mayonnaise
2 tablespoons chili sauce
2 tablespoons sour cream
2 tablespoons lemon juice
2 teaspoons Worcestershire sauce
4 scallions, minced
Kosher salt
2 cups (about 1 pound) cleaned, cooked lump or jumbo lump crab meat, chilled
Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
1 small bunch chives, minced
1 head Bibb lettuce, leaves separated
1 cup cherry tomatoes, preferably Sweet 100, or grape tomatoes, halved lengthwise
2 hard-boiled eggs, peeled and quartered
1 large lemon, sliced, for squeezing

Steps:

  • Make the sauce: In a medium bowl, whisk together the mayonnaise, chili sauce, sour cream, lemon juice, Worcestershire sauce, half the scallions and a pinch of salt. Taste for seasoning.
  • For the crab: Spread the crab out on a rimmed baking sheet and sprinkle with salt and pepper. Sprinkle with the remaining scallions and half the chives. Drizzle with the sauce to taste. Do not mix.
  • To plate: Arrange the lettuce leaves as cups in a circle on a large plate. Disperse the tomatoes around the lettuce. Spoon some of the crab into each lettuce cup. Top each cup with an egg quarter and season with salt and pepper. Sprinkle with the remaining chives and a squeeze of lemon. Hold in the refrigerator until ready to serve and enjoy cold.

CRAB COCKTAIL



Crab Cocktail image

Provided by Nigella Lawson

Categories     Appetizer     No-Cook     Christmas     Cocktail Party     New Year's Day     New Year's Eve     Mayonnaise     Crab     Winter     Sugar Conscious     Dairy Free     Peanut Free     Tree Nut Free

Yield Makes 2 servings

Number Of Ingredients 11

1/4 cup mayonnaise
1/4 teaspoon soy sauce
1/4 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
few drops sesame oil
1/2 teaspoon wasabi paste
1/4 inch fresh ginger
1 lime, halved
1 1/2 cups white crab meat
enough Chinese leaf cabbage to line 2 small plates when shredded
1 scallion
approximately 1 teaspoon pink peppercorns

Steps:

  • In a bowl, combine the mayonnaise, soy sauce, Worcestershire sauce, sesame oil and wasabi. Peel and mince or grate the ginger into the bowl and add the zest of 1/2 the lime. Squeeze 1/2 teaspoon of lime juice into the bowl and mix everything together.
  • Toss the crab in the sauce, and then finely shred the Chinese leaf cabbage.
  • Arrange a bed of shredded cabbage on two plates. Divide the crab between them, piling it into the center of each one. Finely chop the scallion and scatter over each plate and then bash some pink peppercorns either in a pestle and mortar - rich in lewd symbolism - or put them in a freezer bag, close it and hit with a rolling pin (more of a comedy moment) and sprinkle these, too, over the crab cocktails.
  • Cut the remaining lime half into wedges and put on the side of the plates for extra spritzing.

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