Easy Shrimp Stir-Fry

Shrimp Stir-fry with an easy honey garlic soy-sauce, plump seared shrimp and vegetables in less than 20 minutes.

Easy Asian recipes are one of the main focuses of the blog including General Tso’s Chicken, Chicken Lo Mein and Easy Mongolian Beef. We’ve got an entire Chinese restaurant menu worth of recipes for you to choose from on the site!

Shrimp Stir-Fry

Easy base recipe here! This shrimp stir-fry is an easy pantry recipe for you to keep in your back pocket anytime you’d like to make a healthy, easy stir fry. Why do I call it a base recipe? Because I could just as easily swap out any protein or vegetable with this easy stir-fry sauce and make this with anything I’ve got in the fridge.

You can make this exact dish with sliced chicken breast or thighs, pork loin, sliced beef, scallops or any firm fish you love.

Stir-Fries are an easy weeknight dinner you can make in just 20 minutes. In fact if you were to meal prep this dish over the weekend it could be made in less than 10 minutes the night you’re enjoying it.

Can you make this Shrimp Stir-Fry ahead of time? You can certainly make parts of it ahead of time. Seafood is not tolerant of cooking and reheating so I recommend preparing all the individual parts of the recipe ahead but cooking it just before you eat it.

First mix the sauce ingredients together and set aside and second prep the shrimp and vegetables. I tend to buy peeled and deveined shrimp but if you don’t the most time consuming part of the dish will be preparing the shrimp.

In case you need to peel and devein the shrimp, here’s an easy guide:

HOW TO PEEL AND DEVEIN SHRIMP:

1. To peel raw shrimp, tear away at the shell above the first segment of the shell (the tail segment).
2. Take a paring knife and make a shallow cut along the spine of the shrimp (the back of it).
3. Using the paring knife or a fork, gently remove the black strip of intestines.
4. To remove tails just squeeze the shrimp out from the bottom of the tail segment.

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Once the sauce, shrimp and veggies are prepared you just have to cook and combine them in the pan before serving. Since stir-fries cook so quickly it’s a good idea to have your rice ready beforehand.

So why choose shrimp in this recipe? Well as we head further into the holiday season and everyone’s schedules are getting busier we are reaching for easier and quicker recipes. That’s where shrimp is a GREAT option. If you’re buying peeled and deveined shrimp it will cook in less than 5 minutes.

More ideas for easy weeknight meals can be found all over the site, we love anything that has lots of flavor with not a lot of work.

30 MINUTE WEEKNIGHT MEALS:

• Shrimp: Shrimp recipes can be ready in as little at 10 minutes, quick Asian recipes are a natural fit for shrimp. Shrimp scampi is another easy option.
• Slow Cooker Recipes: Slow cooker recipes usually take just 15 minutes of prep time and can be made ahead the night before or the morning of the day you want to enjoy them.
• Ground Beef Recipes: Sloppy Joes are a huge part of this site because of how easy they are, we love cooking with ground beef (and chicken and turkey too!).
• Serve with steamed vegetables and a quick starch.

WHAT TO SERVE WITH SHRIMP Stir-Fry:

• Add steamed rice or fried rice.
• Round out the meal with more dishes like you’re at a restaurant eating family style with Chinese Lemon Chicken or Panda Express Orange Chicken (Copycat)
• Serve it with Spicy Chinese Sichuan Green Beans, your favorite steamed vegetables or even cauliflower rice.

Stir-Fry Vegetable Substitutions:

We used broccoli and carrots in the dish but you can feel free to use any vegetables you’ve got in the kitchen. Stir-fries are an easy way to use up what you’ve already got. I especially love vegetables that are canned like the baby corn, chestnuts and bamboo shoots because it makes the dish even more convenient to make in a pinch.

• Onion – chop the onion into 1″ cubes
• Mushrooms – sliced
• Zucchini – cut into half circles about 1/2″ thick
• Bell Peppers – all colors work, chop into 1″ cubes
• Baby Corn – add whole or slice in half lengthwise
• Water Chestnuts – sliced, drain before adding
• Bamboo Shoots – drain before adding

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Shrimp Stir-fry

Shrimp Stir-fry with an easy honey garlic soy-sauce, plump seared shrimp and vegetables in less than 20 minutes.

Course Main Dish

Cuisine Chinese

Keyword Asian Food, Chinese food, Easy Shrimp Stir Fry, shrimp, stir-fry

Prep Time 10 minutes

Cook Time 10 minutes

Total Time 20 minutes

Servings 4 servings

Calories 236 kcal

Author Sabrina Snyder

Ingredients

• 1 cup water
• 1/4 cup ketchup
• 2 tablespoons soy sauce
• 1 tablespoon cornstarch
• 2 teaspoons honey
• 1/4 teaspoon crushed red pepper
• 1 teaspoon sesame oil
• 2 tablespoons canola oil
• 1 pound shrimp peeled and deveined
• 2 teaspoons ginger minced
• 3 cloves garlic minced
• 1 cup broccoli
• 2 carrots thinly sliced

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Instructions

1. Add the water, ketchup, soy sauce, cornstarch, honey, crushed red pepper and sesame oil together in a small bowl and whisk.

2. Add the canola oil to a large skillet over medium-high heat and add in the shrimp, ginger and garlic, cooking on each side for 1-2 minutes.

3. Add in the broccoli and carrots and the sauce, stir and cover for 3 minutes until the broccoli and carrots are tender and the sauce is thickened.

Nutrition Facts

Shrimp Stir-fry

Amount Per Serving

Calories 236 Calories from Fat 81

% Daily Value*

Fat 9g14%

Cholesterol 285mg95%

Sodium 1533mg67%

Potassium 237mg7%

Carbohydrates 11g4%

Sugar 6g7%

Protein 25g50%

Vitamin A 255IU5%

Vitamin C 26.2mg32%

Calcium 179mg18%

Iron 2.9mg16%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.