Homemade Cocktail Sauce is a delicious chilled dipping sauce recipe that’s the perfect sauce for shrimp, oysters or any seafood!
So good and so easy to make learn how to make homemade cocktail sauce and you’ll never buy jarred cocktail sauce again!
What is cocktail sauce?
Cocktail sauce is a delicious tomato based chilled sauce commonly served with seafood.
Similarly Marie Rose sauce, is a creamy British cocktail sauce with mayonnaise. Both traditional cocktail sauce and creamy marie rose cocktail sauce make delicious shrimp cocktail sauce. In addition to shrimp and prawns you can also serve cocktail sauce with grilled oysters, add to seafood platters or stir it into bloody mary cocktails for extra kick.
Cocktail sauce is neither a cocktail nor is it spicy. It tastes bright from the lemon and a little sweet from the ketchup. To make it spicy you can add more horseradish or black pepper. Or make it even spicier with the addition of tabasco hot sauce. You can even add add sweet chili sauce to make a cocktail sauce with chili sauce.
This is the best cocktail sauce recipe that you make with ketchup, horseradish and other common ingredients!
Ingredients
- Ketchup
- Lemon – zested and juiced
- Grated horseradish – fresh grated or extra hot jarred horseradish
- Black pepper
- Hot sauce – preferably Tabasco, optional
Step by step instructions
- Finely zest lemon then juice. You should have about 1 teaspoon zest and 2 tablespoons juice per lemon.
- In a small bowl combine lemon zest and juice with black pepper and horseradish. Stir in ketchup. Season to taste with salt and additional pepper and tabasco sauce, if desired.
- Serve and enjoy!
How to serve
Serve Cocktail Sauce with shrimp, oysters, crab, crab cakes or any seafood.
There’s also many classic appetizer recipes that use cocktail sauce. Like cream cheese shrimp dip made by spreading cocktail sauce over a block of cream cheese and serving with cocktail shrimp and crackers.
You can also use cocktail sauce to make homemade bloody marys, stir cocktail sauce into beer to make a spicy red beer and more!
How to store
Store cocktail sauce refrigerated. Tightly covered cocktail sauce will keep refrigerated for up to 6 months. Or freeze in an airtight freezer bag or vacuum bag for up to a year.
Ingredients
- 1 cup ketchup
- 1 teaspoon lemon zest finely grated
- 2 tablespoons lemon juice
- 2 tablespoon horseradish grated
- 1 teaspoon black pepper
- ½ teaspoon hot sauce preferably Tabasco optional
Instructions
- Zest lemon then juice. You should have about 1 teaspoon zest and 2 tablespoons juice per lemon.
- In a small bowl combine lemon zest and juice with black pepper and horseradish. Stir in ketchup. Season to taste with salt and additional pepper and tabasco sauce, if desired.
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