Ceviche Style Shrimp Cocktail – The Cookie Rookie®

This CEVICHE STYLE SHRIMP COCKTAIL is our favorite light and healthy appetizer for the holidays. This gorgeous seafood starter is bursting with flavor and sure to please. 

When I lived in Florida I worked at a little martini bar and restaurant and absolutely fell in love with seafood. There’s just something about living on the ocean and how fresh shrimp, salmon, and other seafood can taste. One of my favorite dishes at the restaurant was Ceviche. It can be made with fish or shrimp and it utterly amazing. The meat cooks in citrus juices to create a bright flavor that is second to none. It’s healthy, amazing, and oh so pretty. This Ceviche Style Shrimp Cocktail is a play on that kind of recipe…using orange and lime just to cook the shrimp but adding in ketchup/tomato, cilantro, and other spices to bring a shrimp cocktail flair. Instead of chopping the shrimp and creating more of a ceviche dip, we left them whole for more of a shrimp cocktail appearance. We just LOVE to have this beautiful appetizer on our holiday tables, and it’s gone in no time!

If you love shrimp than I’m confident you’ll be OBSESSED with this Ceviche Style Shrimp Cocktail. I remember my grandparents having traditional Shrimp Cocktail every Christmas Eve at their house. Then men would stand around it eating the shrimp until they were gone. I always thought it was so gross! Well that feeling is in the past. I’m a huge fan now…especially when the shrimp is cooked in citrus juices. It’s just so tasty I can’t describe it in a way that does it justice. You’ll just have to try it for yourself!

This appetizer is perfect for the holiday season but also so awesome for Summer. It’s light, fresh, and delicious. Plus its SO simple and requires pretty much zero work. I hope you love it as much as we do!

Enjoy!

Ceviche Style Shrimp Cocktail

This CEVICHE STYLE SHRIMP COCKTAIL is our favorite light and healthy appetizer for the holidays. This gorgeous seafood starter is bursting with flavor and sure to please. 

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Ingredients

• 1 lb cocktail size, peeled & deveined, cooked shrimp (ice-cold)
• 10 oranges, juice only
• 6 limes, juice only
• ½ large red, very thinly sliced or minced
• 2 jalapenos, seeds & veins removed, minced
• ¼ cup ketchup
• 2 tablespoons mustard
• ¼ cup chopped fresh cilantro or parsley leaves
• Kosher salt & freshly ground black pepper

Optional Ingredients:

• 3 avocadoes, peeled & chopped
• 2 fresh tomatoes, chopped
• 1 cucumber, peeled & diced

Hot sauce

• For serving:
• Saltines, tortilla chips, crackers or tostadas…and thinly sliced lime for garnish.

Instructions

1. In a large bowl, combine the shrimp and orange juice.
2. In a medium bowl, combine lime juice, onions and jalapenos.
3. In another medium bowl, combine ketchup, mustard, cilantro and stir gently until combined.
4. Season to taste with kosher salt & freshly ground black pepper.
5. Set both bowls aside for 15 minutes.
6. After 15 minutes, add the lime juice/onion/jalapeno mixture to the orange juice/shrimp mixture and stir to combine.
7. Cover and refrigerate until ready to serve.
8. Enjoy!

NOTE: Ceviche is best eaten within 1 hour of making or the texture of the shrimp will begin to change.

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