Sauce your shrimp

 

With seafood being so accessible here along the coast, we all have our favorite ways to prepare it. Shrimp can be boiled, steamed, grilled or fried. Fish may be broiled, fried, poached, or grilled. With all this variety, there are two favorite sauces that almost everyone likes with their seafood. These two sauces are cocktail sauce or tartar sauce. That means your sauce is red or white.

 

Cocktail sauce, or red sauce, has a ketchup or chili sauce base. It is often served with u-peel 'em shrimp or fried shrimp. Horseradish, Worchestershire sauce or Tabasco sauce is added for zip. You can buy commercially made cocktail sauces, but nothing is like homemade.

Tartar sauce, or the white sauce, may be purchased also, but these always seem to have a strange aftertaste to me. I like throwing together a mayonnaisebased sauce with a much fresher flavor.

Whatever color sauce you prefer, these two recipes are perfect accompaniments to your seafood this winter. Enjoy

Cocktail Sauce (Red Sauce)
1 12-oz. bottle chili sauce
2 to 3 tbl. horseradish
1 tbl. lemon juice
1 tsp. Worchestershire sauce
several dashes Tabasco sauce
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp pepper

Mix all the ingredients together and chill and chill.

Tartar Sauce (White Sauce)
1-1/2 cups mayonnaise
3 tbl. chopped onion
1 stalk celery diced
1 tbl pickle relish
1 tbl. lemon juice
2 tbl. horseradish
1/2 tsp cayenne pepper
black pepper to taste