Authentic Mexican Shrimp Cocktail (Coctel de Camarones estilo Mexicano) 🍅✨😊
Ingredients:
🧅 ⅓ cup Spanish onion, chopped
🍋 ¼ cup freshly squeezed lime juice
🍤 1 pound chilled cooked medium shrimp (peeled, deveined, and tails removed)
🍅 2 roma (plum) tomatoes, chopped
🥒 1 cucumber, finely chopped
🥬 1 stalk celery, finely chopped
🌶️ 1 jalapeno pepper, seeded and finely chopped
🧂 2 teaspoons salt
🌶️ 2 teaspoons ground black pepper
🍹 1½ cups chilled tomato and clam juice cocktail (such as Clamato®)
🍅 1 cup chilled ketchup (such as Heinz®)
🌿 1 bunch fresh cilantro (stems discarded and leaves chopped)
🌶️ 2 tablespoons hot pepper sauce (such as Valentina®)
🥑 2 avocados (peeled, pitted, and chopped)
Directions:
Mix onion with lime juice in a small bowl and let it stand for 10 minutes.
Combine shrimp, tomatoes, cucumber, celery, jalapeno, salt, and black pepper in a medium bowl until thoroughly mixed.
Whisk together tomato and clam juice cocktail, ketchup, cilantro, and hot pepper sauce in a separate bowl, then stir into the shrimp mixture.
Gently fold in avocados and the onion mixture. Cover and chill thoroughly for at least 1 hour.
Enjoy your refreshing shrimp cocktail!