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Seafood Cocktail Sauce

Cocktail sauce, sometimes also called seafood sauce, is typically a tomato-based sauce served with seafood.

Seafood Cocktail Sauce
Photo: “Ice cold shrimp and cocktail sauce (4847681860)” by jeffreyw, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Ingredients

Makes
10
  • ½ cup ketchup
  • ½ cup Heinz Chili Sauce (optional, and can be substituted with ketchup)
  • 1 tbsp lemon juice
  • 1 tsp Worcestershire sauce
  • ~¼ tsp Tabasco sauce
  • 1 pinch coarsely ground black pepper
  • 2–3 tbsp prepared grated horseradish

Ingredients for 10 servings (315 g) · the original recipe

Method

  1. 1

    Combine all ingredients except horseradish.

  2. 2

    Taste and adjust flavors to your liking. Some recipes call for the addition of celery salt or garlic juice.

  3. 3

    Add a tablespoon at a time to get it to the taste you prefer. If your grated horseradish is fresh (a fresh bottle from the store), the recipe amount may be too much for your liking; if it is older, the recipe amount may not be enough.

  4. 4

    Refrigerate until cold.

  5. 5

    Place cold sauce into serving dish. Serve with seafood.

Recipe from Wikibooks Cookbook, written by Wikibooks contributors. Used under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence; the ingredient list and method on this page are taken from that page and edited (its notes, tips and variations are not reproduced), and are available under the same licence. The macros, equipment tags and scaling are Ma Kitchen’s own and are not the source’s figures. Ma Kitchen is not affiliated with or endorsed by Wikibooks Cookbook. Copied on 2026-11-12.

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