Cocktail Sauce

This homemade Cocktail Sauce is a bold, zesty seafood condiment made with simple pantry staples and fresh ingredients. Perfectly balanced with horseradish, lemon, and spice, it’s quick to make and delicious served with shrimp, crab, oysters, and more.

Course Appetizer, Condiment

Cuisine American, Southern

Keyword cocktail-sauce, cocktail-sauce-recipe, homemade-cocktail-sauce

Prep Time 5

Chill time 4

Total Time 4 5

Servings cup

Calories 266kcal

Ingredients

1/2 cup ketchup
1/2 cup chili sauce (i.e. Heinz or similar)
1-2 Tbsp prepared horseradish
2 Tbsp lemon juice
1 tsp lemon zest
2 tsp sriracha sauce or classic hot sauce adapt to taste
1 tsp Worcestershire sauce
1 medium clove garlic finely minced

Instructions

In a small bowl whisk together ketchup, chili sauce, horseradish, garlic, lemon juice, lemon zest, hot sauce, Worcestershire sauce and garlic. Chill for at least 4 hours or overnight before serving.
Store in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to 1 week. (Makes around 1 1/4 cup)

Notes

Chili Sauce - The chili sauce used in this recipe isn't Asian chili sauce. It's typically found with the ketchup and other prepared sauces on the condiment aisle of most grocery stores. Asian chili sauce is typically sweet and includes crushed red pepper flakes or Asian chiles to give it a considerable punch of flavor. If you use it along with the horseradish and hot sauce, it may not be that pleasant to eat. This, coming from a family that loves to bring the heat to meal time, so choose wisely.
Horseradish - You can adapt this recipe using wasabi paste. Wasabi pack a lot of heat so start small, taste and build adjusting to your personal preference.
Hot Sauce - You can use sriracha, tabasco sauce, or your favorite hot sauce in this recipe.
Serving Options - Serve this easy cocktail sauce with fried or grilled shrimp, prawns, grilled fish or fried fish, if that's your pleasure. You can also use it as an ingredient for making sauces for dipping meatballs, on burgers, Southern sausage balls, pigs in the blanket, 'lil smokies or as a condiment for fish sandwiches, crab cakes, Louisiana po'boys and more. If you can imagine it, you can do it.

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