Easy Appetizer Recipes
Tasty Unique Shrimp Appetizers with Mango
These mango, tomato and shrimp appetizers can certainly be called easy party appetizers and, if you use a readymade seafood sauce instead of making your own, they are even quicker to prepare. The savory shrimp flavor blends well with the sweeter flavors of tomato and mango and the sauce combines sweetness with savory to give very balanced appetizers.
These easy party appetizers are colorful and flavorful and go nicely with just about any type of main meal. Big shrimp look best when making this appetizer recipe and if you have some to spare, you can chop them and put them in the seafood sauce inside the tomatoes.
These appetizers look very classy, as is the case with many seafood appetizers and especially shrimp appetizers. Serve these tasty appetizers at a buffet or before any kind of main meal at a sit-down dinner party. These unique shrimp appetizers are probably more suited to a sit-down dinner because they can be a bit messy to eat at a cocktail party or buffet unless people can sit down. They look very elaborate but they are really are not difficult to make at all and even if you are new to making appetizer recipes you will not have any problems with these.
Mango, Tomato and Shrimp Appetizers
Ingredients -
4 medium tomatoes
½ mango, peeled
12 cooked shrimp, peeled with tails left on
Lettuce leaves to garnish
3 tablespoons tomato catsup
3 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
3 tablespoons mayonnaise
1 teaspoon whisky (optional)
Herb oil (optional)
Preparation:
Cut ½ inch off the top of each tomato and hollow out the tomatoes, reserving the tops.
Slice the mango into small, thin slices.
Combine the tomato catsup,
Worcestershire sauce, mayonnaise, and whisky if you are using it, to make a seafood sauce.
Drizzle some of this sauce on each of 4 serving plates.
Divide the rest of the sauce between the tomatoes.
Put a tomato on each plate and arrange 3 shrimp in each tomato, as well as the mango slices.
Arrange the lettuce leaves on the plate and top each tomato with the reserved tomato tops.
Dot some herb oil on the plates as a garnish if you like and serve immediately.
(Serves 4)
Photo Description:
These classy and unique shrimp appetizers will definitely make your guests' mouths water the minute they see them. The bright contrasting colors are just as appealing as the ingredients themselves. If you are looking for easy party appetizers with shrimp, you will find the combination of shrimp, sweet mango, juicy tomato and more to be really delightful. These appetizers are not too filling so if you are serving a rich main course you will not fill your guests up too much but you will definitely whet their appetite for more delicious food. Make these shrimp appetizers shortly before serving them, for the best and freshest results.
