Honey Garlic Shrimp

Chinese

Honey Garlic Shrimp

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Honey Garlic Shrimp is Chinese home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

25 min Medium Dairy free Pescatarian

Ingredients

Serves
4

The quantities follow this count.

How to cook it

  1. Whisk the honey, soy sauce, rice vinegar, cornstarch, and red pepper flakes for the sauce.

  2. Steam or blanch the broccoli until crisp-tender, about 3 minutes, then set aside.

  3. Heat the neutral oil in a large skillet over high heat and sear the shrimp until just pink, about 2 minutes per side, then remove.

  4. Add the garlic and ginger to the pan and cook until fragrant, about 30 seconds.

  5. Pour in the sauce and simmer until glossy, about 1 minute, then return the shrimp and broccoli to coat.

  6. Drizzle with sesame oil, scatter with scallions, and serve over rice.

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Serve it with

A Chinese dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Honey Garlic Shrimp, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Honey Garlic Shrimp carries gluten, shellfish, soy, and sesame. It is free of the remaining 6 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Honey Garlic Shrimp
Allergen In this dish Cook this instead
Peanuts No
Tree nuts No
Dairy No
Gluten Yes Bai Zhou (Plain Rice Congee)
Shellfish Yes Bai Zhou (Plain Rice Congee)
Eggs No
Soy Yes Bai Zhou (Plain Rice Congee)
Fish No
Sesame Yes Bai Zhou (Plain Rice Congee)
Coconut No

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Estimated, per serving

Calories
290 kcal
Protein
26 g
Carbs
24 g
Fat
10 g
Fiber
3 g
Sugar
18 g
Sodium
680 mg
Saturated fat
1 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Honey Garlic Shrimp takes about 25 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.

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