Authentic Mexican Shrimp Cocktail (Coctel de Camarones estilo Mexicano)

Authentic Mexican Shrimp Cocktail (Coctel de Camarones estilo Mexicano)
  • 1/3 cup Spanish onion, chopped
  • 1/4 cup freshly squeezed lime juice
  • 1 pound chilled cooked medium shrimp - peeled, deveined, and tails removed
  • 2 roma (plum) tomatoes, chopped
  • 1 cucumber, finely chopped
  • 1 stalk celery, finely chopped
  • 1 jalapeno pepper, seeded and finely chopped
  • 2 teaspoons salt
  • 2 teaspoons ground black pepper
  • 1 1/2 cups chilled tomato and clam juice cocktail (such as Clamato®)
  • 1 cup chilled ketchup (such as Heinz®)
  • 1 bunch fresh cilantro - stems discarded and leaves chopped
  • 2 tablespoons hot pepper sauce (such as Valentina®)
  • 2 avocados - peeled, pitted, and chopped


  1. Mix onion with lime juice in a small bowl and allow to stand for 10 minutes. Meanwhile, toss shrimp, roma tomatoes, cucumber, celery, jalapeno, salt, and black pepper in a bowl until thoroughly combined.
  2. Whisk tomato and clam juice cocktail, ketchup, cilantro, and hot pepper sauce in a separate bowl; stir dressing into shrimp mixture. Gently fold in avocados. Cover and chill thoroughly, at least 1 hour.

03/17/2017
Authentic Mexican Shrimp Cocktail (Coctel de Camarones estilo Mexicano), recipe PT15M PT1H 5 455 calories

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