Chilled Florida Seafood Platter with Smoky Cocktail Sauce

Ingredients

Preparation

Combine sauce ingredients; adjust seasoning if needed and store in refrigerator until ready to serve.

Bring a medium-sized pot halfway filled with water and the seafood seasoning to a boil. Add the raw peeled and deveined shrimp, and cook for about 90 seconds, just until the shrimp are almost completely done. Remove the shrimp from the boiling water and immediately cool them off in an iced water bath. Add the rinsed clams to the same boiling water the shrimp were cooked in. Cook the clams until they start to completely open. Remove the open clams from the boiling water and immediately add them to the ice water to stop the cooking process. Discard any clams that do not open. Once the clams and shrimp have been completely cooled down, they can be removed from the ice bath and onto a paper towel to dry. Add fresh ice to a serving platter, and arrange all the cooked and chilled seafood (shrimp, clams, oysters and stone crab) over the ice in a decorative and fun manner. Garnish with fresh lemon. Serve cold with Smoky Florida Cocktail Sauce.