Cocktail Sauce
Great for dipping your shrimp or crab. Extra good after a few hours or overnight in the fridge.

It’s supposed to be horseradish forward, but the heat of prepared horseradish can vary WIDELY from jar to jar – even the same brand. Sometimes a tablespoon is enough to blow your head off, sometimes you need half a jar to get it right.

You want a good zing but maybe aim short of sinus clearing. If you add too much you can’t take it out, but of course you can double up the recipe and leave the horseradish out of the 2nd half. A lesson I’ve learned more than twice.
Cocktail Sauce
Great for dipping your shrimp or crab. Extra good after a few hours or overnight in the fridge.

It’s supposed to be horseradish forward, but the heat of prepared horseradish can vary WIDELY from jar to jar – even the same brand. Sometimes a tablespoon is enough to blow your head off, sometimes you need half a jar to get it right.

You want a good zing but maybe aim short of sinus clearing. If you add too much you can’t take it out, but of course you can double up the recipe and leave the horseradish out of the 2nd half. A lesson I’ve learned more than twice.
Servings
1Cup
Servings
1Cup
Ingredients
Instructions
  1. Mix it all together. If same-day try to prepare it early enough to give it a couple hours rest in the fridge before serving. Overnight is even better.
Recipe Notes

If you don’t have a zester (a.k.a. micro-planer) they are like seven bucks on Amazon. Get one. When you throw away un-zested citrus the terrorists win. [Apologies to Meathead Goldwyn]