authentic mexican shrimp cocktail (coctel de camarones estilo mexicano)

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 1/3 cup spanish onion, chopped
• 1/4 cup freshly squeezed lime juice
• 1 pound chilled cooked medium shrimp - peeled, deveined, and tails removed 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
• 1 1/2 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

Recipe

Preparation Time: 45 mins Ready Time: 1 hr 45 mins


• mix onion with lime juice in a small bowl and allow to stand for 10 minutes. meanwhile, toss shrimp, roma tomatoes, cucumber, celery, jalapeno, salt, and black pepper in a bowl until thoroughly combined.
• whisk tomato and clam juice cocktail, ketchup, cilantro, and hot pepper sauce in a separate bowl; stir dressing into shrimp mixture. gently fold in avocados. cover and chill thoroughly, at least 1 hour.