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Sharing-style bloody mary prawns

Sharing-style bloody mary prawns in a large bowl

Sharing-style bloody mary prawns

Name: Sharing-style bloody mary prawns
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 6
Ingredients: 1 celery stick roughly chopped; 2 lemons sliced; 20g tarragon; small handful of black peppercorns; 8-12 very large prawns deveined, peeled apart from the tip of the tail; 150ml Clamato tomato juice; 100g tomato ketchup; 2 tbsp vodka (optional); 1 lemon juiced; Tabasco to taste; 2 tsp creamed horseradish; 1 tsp tajin (Mexican-style seasoning)

Helena Busiakiewicz

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Serves 4 - 6

Easy

Prep: 15 mins

Cook: 15 mins

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Use a large serving bowl to hang the prawns on for this reinvented retro classic to make them easily shareable. Serve with our moreish bloody mary dipping sauce

Low fat

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Ingredients

Nutrition

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1 celery stick

roughly chopped
2 lemons

sliced
20g tarragon
small handful of black peppercorns
8-12 very large prawns

deveined, peeled apart from the tip of the tail

For the dipping sauce

150ml Clamato tomato juice
100g tomato ketchup
2 tbsp vodka

(optional)
1 lemon

juiced
Tabasco

to taste
2 tsp creamed horseradish
1 tsp tajin (Mexican-style seasoning)

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Nutrition: Per serving (6)

kcal68
fat0.4g
saturates0.1g
carbs6g
sugars6g
fibre0.4g
protein10g
salt1.89g

Method

step 1

Put 1.5 litres water in a very large pan. Season with 2 tbsp salt, then scatter in the celery, lemon slices, tarragon and peppercorns. Bring to a boil. Prepare a large bowl of ice in ice-cold water.
step 2

Drop the prawns into the boiling water and cook for 2-3½ mins, or until they have turned pink, are opaque all the way through and have curled up. Use a slotted spoon to immediately dunk them into the ice water. When cooled, remove and pat dry with kitchen paper.
step 3

For the dipping sauce, mix all the ingredients together in a medium serving bowl and season with salt and plenty of black pepper.
step 4

For a retro look, sit the bowl of dipping sauce in a larger serving bowl filled with ice and hang the prawns over the rim of the larger bowl. Or, serve the prawns in another dish with sauce on the side.

Recipe from Good Food magazine, Christmas 2025

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