Best Honey Garlic Shrimp

Best Honey Garlic Shrimp

I love a good stir fry, and trying new ways to make Chinese restaurant–worthy meals in my own kitchen. A few favorites are lightened up General Tso Chicken, and Chicken and Broccoli Stir-Fry. This shrimp dish, made with orange juice and orange zest, scallions and red pepper flakes for some kick is a new favorite!

This whole dish takes under 20 minutes to make. The recipe was adapted from Chrissy Teigen‘s Cookbook, Cravings Hungry For More (affiliate link). Her gorgeous cookbook is filled with lots of dishes I can’t wait to try, but I especially love her Asian recipes. Since her recipes aren’t low calorie, I just make a few tweaks to lighten them. For this recipe, I increased the shrimp and sauce to make the dish a bit more substantial and used a bit less honey and oil. It came out fantastic and was sweet enough with the fresh orange!
 

Honey Garlic Shrimp
This looks delicious. How do you change your method or cooking time when using frozen, precooked shrimp?

Prep: 5 mins
Cook: 10 mins
Total: 15 mins

Ingredients

• 6 tbsp butter unsalted
• 1/4 cup honey
• 2 tbsp lemon juice freshly squeezed
• 4 cloves garlic minced
• 1/2 tsp pepper or to taste
• 1/4 tsp red pepper flakes
• 1 1/2 lb shrimp peeled, deveined, tail on
• 1/4 tsp salt or to taste

Garnish

• 1 lemon cut into wedges
• 2 tbsp parsley chopped

Instructions

1. Add the butter to a large skillet and melt it over medium-high heat. Once the butter has melted completely, cook for another minute. Make sure to watch it so it doesn't burn.
2. Stir in the minced garlic and cook for another 30 seconds, again watching it so the garlic doesn't burn.
3. Add the lemon juice, honey, red pepper flakes, salt and pepper and stir it all together. Cook for 1 minute, you'll notice the sauce will thicken a bit.
4. Pour out about 3/4 of the butter garlic mixture into a cup or bowl and set aside. Leave the rest of the butter mixture in the skillet.
5. Add the shrimp to the skillet and sear on both sides for about 2 minutes per side, just until it turns pink and it's no longer opaque. You might have to do this in 2 batches, so you don't overcrowd the shrimp in the skillet.
6. Once all the shrimp has been cooked, add them all back to the skillet and pour the reserved butter garlic sauce over the shrimp. Garnish with parsley and remove from heat.
7. Serve with lemon wedges, over rice or with a salad.

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