Easy prawn cocktail recipe | delicious. magazine

Ingredients

• 2 little gem hearts or 1 little gem lettuce, finely shredded
• 4-5 tbsp mayonnaise (see recipe)
• 1-2 tbsp tomato ketchup
• 3-4 shakes Tabasco sauce
• Splash or two of cognac
• 2 spring onions, trimmed and thinly sliced
• ¼ small cucumber, peeled, deseeded and finely diced
• 400g cooked, shell-on Atlantic prawns, heads removed, peeled (see Know-how)
• 4 thin lemon wedges
• 4 pinches of paprika
• For the mayonnaise
• 2 free-range egg yolks
• 2 tsp smooth Dijon mustard
• 300ml sunflower or other neutral oil
• Juice of ½ large lemon
• 150ml extra-virgin olive oil (it should be fragrant but not strongly flavoured)
• PLEASE NOTE The mayonnaise contains raw eggs