January 2024: Mexican-Style Spicy Shrimp Cocktail
Featured for January in our 2024 UniPro calendar.
Elevate your salsa game with a tantalizing twist of heat and flavor.
This Mexican-style Spicy Shrimp salsa combines fresh ingredients like onions, tomatoes, avocados, and jalapeno peppers, all harmonized with zesty lime and clam juice to create a tantalizing dance of flavors on your taste buds.
Serves 2-4
Ingredients
- 1 lb. Cooked Shrimp, peeled, tail off, thawed according to package directions
- 1 medium Yellow Onion, diced
- 1 Lime, juiced
- 2 Tomatoes, diced
- 1 Celery Stalk, diced
- 1 Jalapeño Pepper, seeded and finely diced Cilantro, fresh, chopped
- 1 1/2 cups Chilled Tomato and Clam Juice Cocktail Ketchup
- 2 Tbsp Hot Sauce
- 2 Avocados, peeled, diced
- Salt & Pepper, to taste
Directions
- Combine diced onion and lime juice, and let sit for at least 10 minutes to soften.
- In a large bowl, toss together the shrimp, tomatoes, celery, jalapeño, and cilantro.
- In a separate bowl, whisk together tomato and clam juice cocktail, ketchup, and hot sauce.
- Pour the tomato and clam juice cocktail mixture in with the shrimp and stir until combined. Add marinated onions and diced avocado. Season with salt and pepper.
- Let the shrimp cocktail chill for at least 1 hour before serving. 6. Serve with saltine crackers or tortilla chips