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Date Published:
19/12/2007

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David Colcombe

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David Colcombe at Opus created a fabulous prawn cocktail for Taste of Birmingham

Ingredients

For the cocktail

  • 1 little gem lettuce
  • 30g shelled prawns
  • 2 king prawns

For the salsa

  • 2 tbsp olive oil
  • 1 red pepper, seeded and diced
  • 2 plum tomatoes, skinned, seeded and diced
  • 1 Spanish onion, chopped
  • 2 fresh basil leaves, torn

For the marie rose dressing

  • 4 tsp mayonnaise
  • 1 tbsp tomato ketchup
  • 1 tsp Worcester sauce
  • dash of Tabasco sauce
  • 2 tsp salsa (see above)

For the garnish

  • lemon wedge
  • 1 king prawn (shelled)
  • cherry tomato

Method: How to make prawn cocktail

1. To make the salsa, heat the olive oil in a saucepan. Add the peppers, tomatoes and onion and cook on low heat until tender, about 7 minutes. Remove from the heat and stir in the basil leaves. Leave to cool.

2. To make the marie rose dressing, simply mix all the ingredients together in the order listed.

3. To dress the glasses, wash the gem lettuce, shred the outside leaf and leave the small inner leaves for garnish. Place the shredded gem lettuce in the bottom of the glass. Coat the prawns with marie rose dressing and place on top of lettuce. Garnish with the garnish ingredients, including the reserved inner lettuce leaves.

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Recipe © courtesy of David Colcombe, chef at Opus

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