Prawn question

[Holymoly321]

We're having friends round for dinner and the wife is pregnant. We were thinking of doing prawn cocktail starter and she,s said that's fine Asa long as the prawns are cooked. I thought that all the prawns you bought in packets at the supermarket chilled counter were already 'cooked' - I mean the ones that are pink - not the ones that are translucent and obv not cooked. Am I right or wrong?

You're right

Raw prawns are grey

Cooked prawns are pink.

Have a lovely dinner

I thought so. Who on earth would eat prawns that were not already cooked? I don't have to heat up the pink prawns that I get do I? i can just put them in the cocktail sauce in the salad right?

I think the thing is that you'd want to be sure they were properly cooked, and I expect the pink prawns have been superheated, so no, you don't have to heat them up. That would be gross with the cocktail sauce and everything!!

Lovely, thanks ladies