Carolina-Style Colossal Shrimp Cocktail

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Preparation info
  • Makes

    4–8

    servings
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Salt & Shore: Recipes from the Coastal South

By Sammy Monsour and Kassady Wiggins

Published 2024

  • About

Nothing screams Southern summer like a platter of chilled shrimp cocktail. This preparation is all about simplicity, technique, and letting the quality of the shellfish shine. The coastal South is home to some of the world’s finest wild-caught shrimp, offering three species to choose from for this recipe: white, brown, and pink. Due to the overlapping seasonality of these species, there’s a good chance you will find market-fresh shrimp any time of year. However, shrimp freezes and thaws ext