Prawn cocktails served in retro wine glasses from Jamie's serveware range

Perfect prawn cocktails

Name: Perfect prawn cocktails
Yield: 6
Ingredients: 1 clove of garlic; 4 rashers of higher-welfare smoked pancetta; olive oil; 100g breadcrumbs; 3 tablespoons free-range mayonnaise; 3 tablespoons natural yoghurt; 3 tablespoons tomato ketchup; 1 lemon; Worcestershire sauce; Tabasco sauce; 2 little gem lettuces; 1 cucumber; 200g ripe cherry tomatoes; 1 punnet of cress; 1 ripe avocado; 100g cooked brown shrimp, from sustainable sources; 200g cooked peeled prawns, from sustainable sources; cayenne pepper

Cocktail sauce, avo, tomatoes & crispy pancetta crumbs

Not Too Tricky

serves 6

nutrition per serving

Calories

12%

Fat

19%

Saturates

11%

Sugars

Salt

38%

Protein

30%

Carbs

Fibre

of an adult’s reference intake

Recipe From

Together

By Jamie Oliver

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Ingredients

1 clove of garlic

4 rashers of higher-welfare smoked pancetta

olive oil

100g breadcrumbs

3 tablespoons free-range mayonnaise

3 tablespoons natural yoghurt

3 tablespoons tomato ketchup

1 lemon

Worcestershire sauce

Tabasco sauce

2 little gem lettuces

1 cucumber

200g ripe cherry tomatoes

1 punnet of cress

1 ripe avocado

100g cooked brown shrimp, from sustainable sources

200g cooked peeled prawns, from sustainable sources

cayenne pepper

Top Tip

A good fishmonger will have a nice selection of prawns – I like to use a mixture here, even a few smoked ones would be great. Have fun with it.

Method

Peel the garlic and finely chop with the pancetta, then place in a non-stick frying pan on a medium heat with 1 teaspoon of olive oil. Add the breadcrumbs and fry until crunchy and golden, tossing regularly. Leave to cool.
For the sauce, whisk up the mayo, yoghurt, ketchup, half the lemon juice and a dash each of Worcestershire and Tabasco sauce, then season to perfection, tasting and tweaking.
Finely shred the lettuces. Halve the cucumber lengthways and scrape out the seeds with a teaspoon, then chop into 1cm dice. Quarter the cherry tomatoes. Snip the cress.
Halve and destone the avocado, squeeze the flesh into a blender with the remaining lemon juice and blitz until smooth, loosening with a splash of water, if needed, then season to perfection.
Line up six clean wide-necked jam jars or glasses ready to fill. Divide the lettuce between them, followed by the cucumber and tomatoes, gently pressing down as you build the layers.
Spoon in the cool, crispy pancetta crumbs, top with the cress, then sprinkle in the shrimp and prawns. Drizzle in the sauce and add a pinch of cayenne to each. Spoon over the blitzed avo, cover and you’re done.

The day before, make the cocktail sauce and blitz the avo. Fry the pancetta breadcrumbs, cool, then store it all separately in reusable containers in the fridge. To assemble, follow the recipe from Step 5 and serve straightaway.

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