Cocktail sauce is great with fried shrimp or shrimp cocktail, as well as with other fried seafood. I provide two recipes below that are somewhat different, the first one from AllRecipes.com® and the second from Food.com®. Both will be very good, but read on ...

If you want a "knock your socks off" superb cocktail sauce then buy a horseradish root at the supermarket and process it per the Food Nirvana recipe for Processed Horseradish. The horseradish that results will be vastly superior to the small bottles of refrigerated stuff found in supermarkets. Use 3/4 cup of ketchup and 1/4 cup of your own prepared horseradish and simply that combination, mixed, yields a fabulous and strong cocktail sauce. Do it.

Recipe#1:

Ingredients:

2 tablespoons of finely grated raw horseradish

1 teaspoon of dark brown sugar

1/8 teaspoon of fresh lemon juice

6 tablespoons of ketchup

Directions:

Simply mix the ingredients in a small bowl, then cover the bowl with plastic wrap and refrigerate it until it is used.

Recipe#2:

Ingredients:

1 cup of catsup

1 to 2 tablespoons of horseradish (to your taste)

1 tablespoon of lemon juice

1/2 teaspoon of Worcestershire sauce

1/4 teaspoon of salt

1 dash of pepper

Directions:

Mix the ingredients in a small bowl, cover the mixture with plastic wrap and refrigerate it until it is used.