cocktail sauce

American  

noun

1. any of various sauces served with a seafood cocktail, typically one consisting of ketchup, Worcestershire sauce, Tabasco sauce, horseradish, and seasonings.

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Example Sentences

Only a fool would meddle with the classic cocktail sauce recipe.

From The Wall Street Journal

Horseradish is often at its best when it cozies up to cream, like in a traditional steak sauce, or when it mingles with tomatoes, as in a classic cocktail sauce.

From Salon

Not the shrimp, of course, which he adored, but rather the “overpowering red menace known as cocktail sauce,” as he wrote in his classic cookbook, “The New James Beard.”

From Seattle Times

You can serve the shrimp hot with the cocktail sauce or let them cool and serve them cold.

From Washington Times

Emily Weinstein’s Five Weeknight Meals newsletter has the recipe: This roasted shrimp cocktail uses frozen shrimp and goes well with creamy horseradish sauce or classic cocktail sauce.

From New York Times