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Austrian Lobster Cocktail

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Ingredients:


2 cup	mayonnaise
40 ml	tomato sauce
0.8 kg	lobster tail meat roughly chopped
1 med	onion finely diced
2	anchovy fillets finely chopped
2 tsp	capers finely chopped
2	sweet gherkins finely chopped
20 ml	finely-chopped parsley plus more to garnish
1	hard-boiled egg white finely chopped
	yolk shaved with side of knife
1 tsp	Worcestershire sauce
	Hot sauce to taste
20 ml	orange juice
1/2	lemon juiced
	Salt to taste
	Freshly-ground black pepper to taste
2 tsp	mustard
2 tsp	horseradish
1 tsp	paprika plus more to garnish
1/2 tsp	cayenne
20 ml	dry sherry
20 ml	cognac
20 ml	Cointreau
	Lettuce finely sliced
20	shrimp cooked, peeled
	Lemon wedges to garnish

Method:

Place mayonnaise in bowl on top of crushed ice. Add tomato sauce and 9 ounces lobster meat. In separate bowl, combine onion, anchovy, capers, gherkins, 1 tablespoon parsley, and egg white and yolk. Add this to lobster mayonnaise. Add Worcestershire sauce, several shakes hot sauce, orange juice, lemon juice, salt and pepper, mustard, horseradish, 1 teaspoon paprika, cayenne, sherry, cognac and Cointreau. Combine all ingredients carefully.

Season lettuce with salt, pepper and lemon juice. Divide among 10 champagne glasses. Place remaining lobster on top of lettuce then cover with lobster mayonnaise. Garnish with 2 shrimp, parsley, paprika and a lemon wedge. Serve cold.

This recipe yields 10 servings.

Comments: A specialty of the Franziskaner in Vienna.

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