This recipe for cocktail sauce is the greatest and goes great with seafood and shrimp. Simple and quick. Keeps covered in the refrigerator for at least two weeks.
| Prep Time: | 5 mins |
| Additional Time: | 1 hr |
| Total Time: | 1 hr 5 mins |
| Servings: | 16 |
| Yield: | 2 cups |
Ingredients
- ½ cup ketchup (such as Heinz®)
- 1 cup tomato-based chili sauce (such as Heinz®)
- ¼ cup prepared horseradish
- ⅓ cup light brown sugar
- 2 tablespoons lemon juice
- ½ teaspoon hot pepper sauce (such as Frank’s RedHot®)
- ¼ teaspoon garlic salt
- ¼ teaspoon onion powder
Instructions
- Whisk ketchup, chili sauce, horseradish, brown sugar, lemon juice, hot sauce, garlic salt, and onion powder together in a bowl until the sugar has dissolved.
- Cover and refrigerate at least 1 hour before serving.
Reviews
This is better than store bought, the favor profile dose merges together over night. For a bold taste with a hint of horseradish. This is also good with onion ring or French fries .
I made it according to the recipe and it was very good. I will make it again but will probably cut the recipe in half as it makes a lot.
I made this and its great. I changed a few things. I used a clove of freshly crushed garlic instead of garlic salt. Forget the onion powder…its just salt. Use granulated onion if you really want it. I added a couple of dashes of “whatsthishere sauce” (Worcestershire Sauce). You don’t really need the hot sauce if you have raw horseradish which you can buy fresh jarred in a store. Always taste your stuff as you go. If you like it others will too. I added even more lemon.
Delish! Only change was honey instead of brown sugar. Ive made it several times!
Just like the other reviewers I found it too sweet and not enough horseradishy. Halve the sugar and double to horseradish and it’s good.
This is way better than store bought. I cut the recipe in half to keep it from getting stale but other than that it is made as written. If I changed anything I would have to call it my recipe so if you are going to add to it than don’t rate it. I am going to freeze some to see if it stays fresh.
We absolutely loved it! To give it a little more ‘kick’ – I used Chili Garlic Sauce, doubled the brown sugar & left out the hot sauce- FANTASTIC.
Love it! I used the Dynasty Schezwan Chili Sauce for a different flavor and added a little more horseradish sauce.
I tried this without reading the reviews and I wish I had. I needed to hurry and make cocktail sauce when our shrimp was coming off the grill and we found we had no sauce. I halved the recipe. I too wish I’d cut down on the brown sugar. I used extra hot horseradish and found I needed more. This was okay in a pinch but may try another recipe next time. Thanks.
By no means the “perfect cocktail sauce” – not unless you like it SWEET, that is. I started out not adding any – and left it that way. I also felt it needed a more tomato-y taste so I ended up using equal amounts of the ketchup and the Heinz 57. A couple of squirts of Worcestershire sauce improved this as well.
This was much too sweet of a sauce! Next time I will put a fraction of the sugar! I do like the combination of other ingredients, however, and will try this one again next time we have seafood.
Perfecto!
Not bad in a pinch – I cut the recipe in half and used only 2 tsp. of light brown sugar as I don’t like sweet cocktail sauces. Since I like more heat I upped the horseradish to my liking.
This was ok but a little too sweet for me. I would cut the sugar down. It worked in a pinch.
Really good, but I completely left out the brown sugar. For us it was perfect without it. Thank you!
This is the best one I have found yet! Loved the sweet and spicy flavor of it. I made no changes. Perfect as is.
Wonderful! This was exactly what I was looking for.