Hot Honey Garlic Shrimp
This Hot Honey Garlic Shrimp is an amazingly flavorful meal that comes together in under 30 minutes and tastes just as good as takeout!
Servings: 4 people
Ingredients
For the veggies and shrimp:
- 1 ½ lb large uncooked shrimp, peeled and deveined.
- 1 bundle asparagus, chopped about 2 cups
- 1 large red pepper, chopped
- ½ large white onion, chopped
- 2 tbsp olive oil
For the sauce:
- ¼ cup water
- ½ cup honey taste and add more if you want it sweeter
- ½ cup lite soy sauce
- 3 cloves garlic, minced About 2 tablespoons
- 1 tbsp garlic chili paste You can add more or less to adjust the heat level!
- 2 tbsp rice wine vinegar
- 1 tsp minced ginger
- 2 tbsp cornstarch
- ¼ tsp red pepper flakes optional for more spice
Garnish:
- 2 cups cooked rice
- 3 tbsp chopped green onion
- 1 tsp white sesame seeds
Instructions
To make the marinade:
- Add all ingredients aside from the cornstarch to a medium bowl. Stir to combine.
- Add deveined and peeled shrimp to a medium bowl. Add ⅓ cup of the marinade to the shrimp and toss to coat. Add to the refrigerator for 20 minutes.
For the veggies and shrimp:
- While the shrimp is marinating you will cook the vegetables. In a large saute pan add 1 tablespoon of olive oil. Bring to medium heat and cook chopped asparagus, red pepper and onion until tender, about 3-5 minutes. Scoop out veggies and set aside in a medium bowl.
- After the 20 minutes, remove the shrimp from the fridge. Add another tablespoon of oil to the pan that you cooked the veggies in and add shrimp. Discard extra marinade. Cook shrimp on one side until they start to turn pink, about 1 minute. Flip and and cook until they're all cooked through, another minute or so.
- Remove shrimp and set aside in a medium sized bowl. Add cornstarch to the remaining sauce mixture and stir to combine. Add the sauce to the same pan over medium heat and cook until it starts to thicken, about 3-5 minutes. When the sauce reaches the desired consistency, toss vegetables and shrimp back into the sauce. I like to scoop them out with a slotted spoon to allow the liquid to drain, that way it won't thin down the sauce!
- Scoop shrimp mixture onto rice or noodles, garnish with green onion and sesame seeds.