Prawn Cocktail

Directions

1. 1
   Make sure the prawns are drained well of their briny liquid.
2. 2
   Mix the salad cream, ketchup, lemon juice and Tabasco in a bowl.
3. 3
   Tip in the prawns and mix to coat them in the Marie-Rose sauce.
4. 4
   Finally shred the lettuce, and arrange as a bed on six small plates or shallow bowls.
5. 5
   Divide the prawns in their sauce on the centre of each plate in a kind of pyramid, and then scatter with roughly crushed peppercorns or dust with paprika.
6. 6
   As long as the prawns were properly thawed and drained before you started immersing them in their famous coral pink sauce, it does not matter if they sit for a good few hours in the fridge before being dolloped out onto their lettuce-lined dishes.