Chinese
Honey Garlic Shrimp
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.
Ingredients
- 1.5 lb large shrimp, peeled and deveined
- 1/4 cup honey
- 3 tbsp soy sauce
- 5 garlic cloves
- 1 tbsp grated ginger
- 1 tbsp rice vinegar
- 1 tbsp cornstarch
- 1 tsp sesame oil
- 1/2 tsp red pepper flakes
- 4 cups broccoli florets
- 3 scallions
- 2 tbsp neutral oil
How to cook it
- Whisk the honey, soy sauce, rice vinegar, cornstarch, and red pepper flakes for the sauce.
- Steam or blanch the broccoli until crisp-tender, about 3 minutes, then set aside.
- 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.
- Add the garlic and ginger to the pan and cook until fragrant, about 30 seconds.
- Pour in the sauce and simmer until glossy, about 1 minute, then return the shrimp and broccoli to coat.
- Drizzle with sesame oil, scatter with scallions, and serve over rice.
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.
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Something to sip
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.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | No | |
| Gluten | Yes | Turkey Lettuce Wraps |
| Shellfish | Yes | Braised Eggplant and Tofu |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | Yes | Nothing comparable without it yet |
| Fish | No | |
| Sesame | Yes | Mapo Tofu |
| 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
Bands, not numbers. Dinejot does not weigh anybody's food, so it says light, moderate or hearty and stops there. This dish was read and set by hand.
- Calorie band
- Moderate
- Protein
- High
- Protein quality
- Complete
- Food groups it covers
- Meat or fish and Vegetables
- How this was set
- Hand audited
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.
More to cook
Cooked from the same things
Other dishes built on shrimp, broccoli, and garlic.
From the same kitchens
More cooking from the United States.
Cook this with your whole family
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