Seafood Spice Enhances Your Seafood Dishes

Fresh shrimp is a great addition to a meal, or meal itself, and throwing in the perfect seasoning and sauce elevates it tenfold! Here’s an easy but absolutely amazing shrimp cocktail recipe for you to try at home. Pair this with Earnest Hemingways' The Marlin Seafood Spice Blend, and you won’t be able to get enough of it! A quick side note, with Thanksgiving just around the corner, this recipe can be a delicious and new appetizer for you to start a tradition with!

The full recipe can be found here: https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/food-network-kitchen/shrimp-cocktail-recipe2-1942120

What You’ll Need:

• 10 cups cold water

• 2 medium carrots, quartered

• 2 stalks celery, quartered

• 1 large onion, quartered

• 1 head garlic, halved

• 1 lemon, halved

• 1/2 bunch parsley

• 5 sprigs fresh thyme

• 2 bay leaves

• 1 pound medium or large shrimp, in the shell, rinsed

• 1 tablespoon kosher salt

• Lemon wedges
  1 cup ketchup

• 1 lemon, zest finely grated and juiced

• 4 teaspoons prepared horseradish, or to taste, drained

• 1/4 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce

• Hot sauce, to taste

To Combine:

1. To de-vein the shrimp before cooking, hold a shrimp between your thumb and forefinger with the rounded side of the shrimp upward. Place the pointed end of a wooden skewer at the junction of the second and third segments of the shrimp shell, about 1/8-inch down from the top. Gently push the skewer through the shell and then lift up to remove the vein.

2. Put the water, carrot, celery, onion, garlic, lemon, parsley, thyme, and bay leaves in a pot and bring to a boil over high heat. Lower the heat to a simmer, set a cover on top slightly ajar, and cook for 10 to 30 minutes.

3. Drop the shrimp into the liquid and turn off the heat. Cook the shrimp, stirring occasionally, until they curl and turn pink, about 2 to 2 1/2 minutes for medium shrimp, 3 minutes for large ones. Drain and cool to room temperature. Peel the shrimp and remove the vein along the curve of the shrimp, if desired. Refrigerate if not serving right away. If refrigerated, bring the shrimp to room temperature 20 minutes before serving.

4. Combine the ketchup, lemon zest and juice, horseradish, and Worcestershire sauce in a small bowl. Add hot sauce, if desired. Mix well, then refrigerate until ready to serve.

5. To serve put the cocktail sauce in a medium bowl and surround with the shrimp, or loop the shrimp over the edge of an individual cocktail glass and top with the sauce. Garnish with the lemon and serve.

This shrimp cocktail recipe promises to be a crowd and personal favorite. Adding some of The Marlin Seafood Spice Blend will take your shrimp over the edge and make it an unforgettable meal or appetizer. The blend enhances seafood without overpowering it, and stands to be a crucial element of all your future seafood ventures!

Binya is now carrying this amazing spice blend in store, and we’re getting ready by cooking tons of seafood!