Prawn Cocktail Recipe

Ingredients

• 16 shelled prawns
• 2 cups mixed vegetables (carrots, peas, potatoes, green beans, boiled and diced)
  
• 1⁄4 small cabbage, finely chopped
  
• 1 lettuce head
  
• Juice of 1 lemon
  
• 1 Tbs butter Salt to taste

Method:

1. Wash the prawns and soak in water, adding a little lemon juice to maintain their freshness. If big, cut them into pieces. Drain. Add 1 Tbs lemon juice, 1 Tbs margarine and salt and cook on medium heat until done. Leave aside to cool.
   
2. Chop the lettuce finely leaving a few leaves aside for garnishing. Mix together the lettuce, cabbage and the boiled vegetables with prawns. 
   
3. Soak the remaining lettuce leaves in ice-cold water until crisp. Arrange the lettuce leaves in individual cocktail glasses. 
   
4. Slice a lemon into rings and dress each cocktail glass with a lemon ring. Set aside whilst you make the mayonaise.

MAYONNAISE

Ingredients

• 2 cups oil
  
• 2-3 Tbs vinegar
  
• 1⁄4 tsp salt
  
• 2 Tbs sugar
  
• 1⁄4 tsp spice world black pepper
  
• 3 eggs 

Method:

1. Liquidize the eggs, vinegar, salt, sugar and pepper until frothy. 
   
2. Pour the oil into the liquidizer very slowly in a thin hair-like streak until all the oil is finished and the mayonnaise is thick and creamy. 
   
3. Chill the mayonnaise and mix it with the vegetable and prawn mixture. 
   
4. Fill the cock-tail glasses and serve.