Shrimp, onion, cilantro, jalapeño, tomato, cucumber, and lime juice on a crunchy tostada topped with avocado and spicy cocktail sauce. Shrimp tostadas are great for a crowd or a weekday meal.
Cooking methods
Many cook raw shrimp in lime juice for several hours or overnight in the fridge. My preferred method is buying already cooked shrimp, tail-off, and seasoning them once they’re mixed in with all of the other ingredients. There’s nothing wrong with cooking them in lime juice, I’m sure it’s safe, but for my peace of mind, I stick with fully cooked. You could also buy them raw and grill them or bake them. But sometimes simpler is better.
Step by step process
You’ll want to start by prepping all of the veggies and setting aside.
If the shrimp are bigger cut them into smaller pieces so it’s easier when biting into the tostada.
To a large bowl add the shrimp, jalapeño, onion, cilantro, cucumber, tomato, salt, and lime juice. Mix all of your ingredients until well combined. Refrigerate for at least an hour. The longer it hangs out in the fridge the better the flavor.
Let’s work on our spicy cocktail sauce. Also super simple all you have to do is combine your bottled cocktail sauce, ketchup, lime juice, and hot sauce to your liking. Mix well and refrigerate until needed. If you have a squeeze bottle it would make it easier when drizzling on top of the tostada, but not needed.
To make the tostadas, start by taking your crunchy tostada shell, on top of that layer your shrimp mixture, sliced avocado, and spicy cocktail sauce.
Enjoy with more hot sauce or as is.
Tips, ideas & notes
If you don’t like a whole lot of spicy, don’t add as many jalapeños or for the cocktail sauce you can completely omit the hot sauce or add very little of it.
This can be stored in the refrigerator for about 3-5 days.
Shrimp Tostadas Recipe
- Prep Time: 1 hour 30 minutes
- Cook Time: 0 minutes
- Total Time: 1 hour 30 minutes
Description
Shrimp, onion, cilantro, jalapeño, tomato, cucumber, and lime juice on a crunchy tostada topped with avocado and spicy cocktail sauce. Great for a crowd or a weekday meal, this is a great goto on those hot summer days.
Ingredients
- 1.5 lbs cooked shrimp
- 2 jalapenos diced
- ½ large onion diced
- 2 roma tomatoes diced
- 1 cucumber diced
- ¼ cup chopped cilantro
- Juice of 3 limes
- 1 teaspoon salt
For the spicy cocktail sauce:
- ½ cup ketchup
- ½ cup cocktail sauce
- ½ a lime
- Hot sauce to taste
- Avocado
Instructions
- Start by preparing your veggies. Dicing/chopping your jalapeños, onion, tomatoes, cucumber, and cilantro and add it all to a bowl.
- Take your cooked shrimp and add them to the bowl with all of the diced/chopped veggies.
- Add the juice of 3 limes and 1 teaspoon of salt.
- Mix all of your ingredients until well combined. Refrigerate for at least an hour.
- For the spicy cocktail sauce, in a bowl or jar, combine ½ a cup of cocktail sauce, ½ a cup of ketchup, juice of ½ of a lime, and hot sauce to your liking. Mix well and refrigerate until needed.
- To make the tostadas, start by taking your crunchy tostada shell, on top of that layer your shrimp mixture, sliced avocado, and then spicy cocktail sauce.
- And enjoy!
Notes
Can be stored in the refrigerator for about 3-5 days in an airtight container.
To save time, buy the already cooked shrimp in a bag instead of the raw shrimp. You’ll save yourself the hassle of having to cook it and then cool it.
Heat levels can be adjusted to your liking. Add more or less jalapeños and/or hot sauce, depending on how you like your heat level.
If the shrimp are large, cut them down to smaller bite-size pieces.
Can also optionally be topped with just ketchup. Most restaurants serve these with a bottle of ketchup and a bottle of hot sauce at the table to add to your liking.
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