Austrian Lobster Cocktail
Ingredients
- 2 cups mayonnaise
- 2 tbsp tomato sauce
- 1½ lb lobster tail meat roughly chopped
- 1 medium onion finely diced
- 2 anchovy fillet finely chopped
- 2 tsp capers finely chopped
- 2 sweet gherkins finely chopped
- 1 tbsp finely-chopped parsley plus more to garnish
- 1 hard-boiled egg, white finely chopped, yolk shaved with side of knife
- 1 tsp Worcestershire sauce
- hot sauce to taste
- 1 tbsp orange juice
- ½ lemon|lemon juice, juiced
- salt to taste
- freshly-ground black pepper to taste
- 2 tsp prepared mustard|mustard
- 2 tsp horseradish
- 1 tsp paprika plus more to garnish
- ½ tsp cayenne pepper
- 1 tbsp dry sherry
- 1 tbsp cognac
- 1 tbsp cointreau
- lettuce finely sliced
- 20 shrimp cooked, peeled
- lemon wedges to garnish
- Place mayonnaise in bowl on top of crushed ice.
- Add tomato sauce and 9 ounces lobster meat.
- In separate bowl, combine onion, anchovy, capers, gherkins, 1 tablespoon parsley, and egg white and yolk.
- Add this to lobster mayonnaise.
- Add Worcestershire sauce, several shakes hot sauce, orange juice, lemon juice, salt and pepper, mustard, horseradish, 1 teaspoon paprika, cayenne pepper, sherry, cognac and cointreau.
- Combine all ingredients carefully.
- Season lettuce with salt, pepper and lemon juice.
- Divide among 10 champagne glasses.
- Place remaining lobster on top of lettuce then cover with lobster mayonnaise.
- Garnish with 2 shrimp, parsley, paprika and a lemon wedge.
- Serve cold.
This article uses material from the "Austrian Lobster Cocktail" article on the Recipes wiki at Wikia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike License
