Recipe: Appetizing Mike's Authentic Mexican Seafood Cocktail

Mike's Authentic Mexican Seafood Cocktail. At Mike's Seafood, we are committed to satisfying our customers with great food and excellent service. This dish combines deliciously diverse Mexican flavors, from fresh cilantro to authentic hot sauce. A refreshing and authentic Mexican shrimp cocktail with plenty of spicy flavors makes a perfect starter or a light meal.

This cocktail also works well as a "cure" for a hangover. High temperatures are nothing new to the coast of Veracruz, and that only incites the heavy drinking of very. Mexican seafood cocktail called campechana is typically found on a street cart in the coastal areas of Mexico. You can cook Mike's Authentic Mexican Seafood Cocktail using 32 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Mike's Authentic Mexican Seafood Cocktail

1. Prepare of ● For The Seafood.
2. Prepare 1 Bag of 40 Count Large Raw Shrimp.
3. It's 2 lb of Presteamed Imitation Crab Meat.
4. You need 1 Bag of 40 Count Raw Scallops.
5. You need 2 Pounds of Crab Legs.
6. You need of ● For The Broth.
7. You need 4 tbsp of Tabasco [preferred] Or Tapitio Hot Sauce.
8. It's 1/2 Cup of Ketchup Or Chilie Sauce.
9. Prepare 1 tbsp of Mexican Oregano.
10. It's 3 tbsp of Orange Juice.
11. It's 2 tbsp of Horseradish.
12. Prepare 3 Cups of Clamato Juice [well shaken].
13. You need 1 tbsp of Black Pepper.
14. You need 2 of small Juiced Limes.
15. Prepare 1/2 tbsp of Salt.
16. You need of ● For The Vegetables.
17. You need 2 1/2 Cups of Purple [red] Onions [fine diced].
18. You need 1/2 Cup of Green Onions [diced].
19. You need 1 of LG Cucumber [diced].
20. You need 5 of LG Jalapeños [fine diced].
21. Prepare 5 of Roma Tomatoes [diced].
22. You need 1 Bunch of Radishes [sliced].
23. It's of Avocado [to be added last].
24. It's 1 Bunch of Cilantro [leaves only + reserves].
25. It's 2 of Celery Stalks [with leaves - diced].
26. It's 2 tbsp of Fine Minced Garlic.
27. Prepare of ● For The Sides.
28. It's of Tabasco Hot Sauce.
29. It's of Tapitio Hot Sauce.
30. You need of Quality Crackers.
31. It's Slices of Avacado [add only upon serving].
32. Prepare of Lime Wedges.

This delicious seafood cocktail is served with the broth that the fish is cooked in. The seafood is typically shrimp, octopus, squid, scallops and sometimes oysters. This dish is a favorite at Goode Company Seafood in Houston. It goes perfectly with fried tortilla chips and cold beer.

Mike's Authentic Mexican Seafood Cocktail instructions

1. Here's what you'll need. Sorry. I couldn't fit all the ingredients into one photo. ;0).
2. If needed, de-thaw, de-vein, shuck, remove tails and rinse your shrimp..
3. De-thaw your scallops..
4. Feather your immataion crab meat..
5. Pull your presteamed crab meat. If not pre-steamed - steam crab legs for 7 minutes..
6. Create your broth and mix..
7. Fine chop and slice all of your chilled vegetables..
8. Blanch your shrimp and scallops for 1 minute in boiling water. Drain immediately and place directly into your chilled Clamato broth mixture to stop the cooking process..
9. Mix everything together. Pictured is only 1 of 4 vats..
10. For best results - allow your shrimp cocktail to chill for at least 2 hours at a minimum..
11. Serve with Avocado slices, quality crackers, lime wedges and Tabasco or Tapitio Hot Sauce. Garnish with fresh Cilantro. Always add your Avacado just before serving. Otherwise you'll have a murkey looking cocktail. Enjoy!.

We used prawns and scallops, but any seafood or fish will work well in this recipe. Mexican Shrimp Cocktail, otherwise known as Cóctel de Camarónes, doesn't resemble an American shrimp cocktail at all. This recipe is a favorite at Goode Company Seafood in Houston. It goes great with fried tortilla chips and cold beer. Get quick answers from Jarocho Authentic Mexican Seafood staff and past visitors.