Balmain Bug cocktails

Recipe Categories : | All Seafood | Balmain Bugs | Appetizers | MAIN INDEX |

Serves : 4

Ingredients :

• 8 cooked Balmain bugs
• 1 cup shredded lettuce
• 1 small red Spanish onion
• 1 long thin green cucumber, thinly sliced
• 1 small red apple
• 1 tbsp lemon juice
  for Cocktail Sauce :
• 2 tbsp mayonnaise
• 1 tbsp cream
• 1 tbsp tomato sauce
• ¼ tspn Worcestershire sauce
• ¼ tspn Tabasco sauce

Preparation and Cooking Instructions :

1. Remove flesh from Balmain bugs, cut each piece in half lengthwise. Place lettuce, onion, cucumber, apple and flesh in 4 serving dishes, sprinkle with juice and top with sauce just before serving.
2. For Cocktail Sauce : Combine mayonnaise, cream and sauces in small bowl.
3. Cooks notes : Cocktails, without sauce, can be prepared up to two hours ahead ; sauce can be prepared several hours ahead. Keep both, covered, in the refrigerator.