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Sweet and Sour Shrimp with plump and juicy shrimp in mouthwatering sweet and sour sauce. This easy recipe is amazing with steamed rice or noodles and ready in 20 minutes.
Sweet And Sour Shrimp
Chinese Sweet and Sour Shrimp is one of the easiest shrimp recipes to make at home. This is a simple stir-fry dish with everyday ingredients. This delicious homemade recipe is best with rice or noodles.
Sweet and sour sauce is one of the most popular Chinese sauces and it works great with just about any protein, for example: sweet and sour pork, sweet and sour chicken. Sweet and sour shrimp is definitely my favorite because I just love shrimp.
There are a variety recipes to make sweet and sour sauce but I am going to teach you the easiest way with pantry ingredients such as ketchup, soy sauce and sugar.
It’s that simple but the taste is authentic and absolutely delightful. It’s better than your regular Chinese takeout for sure!
For shrimp, I like to get frozen, shelled and deveined but with tail on. You can certainly use the ones without the tail. It’s totally up to you.
Serve the Sweet and Sour Shrimp with steamed rice or noodles and you will have the most amazing dinner.
Frequently Asked Questions
This recipe is only 288 calories per serving.
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Sweet and Sour Shrimp
Ingredients
- 1 lb (700g) shrimp, shelled and deveined, tail-on
- 2 tablespoons cooking oil
- 3 cloves garlic, minced
- chopped scallions
- white sesame
Sweet and Sour Sauce:
- 3 tablespoons ketchup
- 1 teaspoon chili sauce , for example: Sriracha, optional
- 1 1/2 tablespoons soy sauce
- 1 1/2 tablespoons sugar
- 5 tablespoons water
- 1 teaspoon cornstarch
Instructions
- Rinse and drain the shrimp, then pat dry with paper towels and set aside.
- Mix all the ingredients for the sweet and sour sauce together and stir to combine well. Set aside.
- Heat a skillet over high heat with the cooking oil. Once heated, add the garlic and stir-fry until it turns light brown. Add the shrimp and stir-fry until the surface turns white. Then, add the sweet and sour sauce and cook for 1 minute, or until the shrimp is cooked through. If the sauce dries up or becomes too thick, add more water to loosen it.
- Garnish with chopped scallions and white sesame seeds, and serve immediately.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
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Delicious. Squirted some lime over it. Thank you.
I made it and hubby luuuuuubbbbbed it. It was deeeeeelish
Great recipe
Hello. This recipe sounds very good. If I add red pepper flakes would this be equlivent to sweet spicy shrimp? Thank you.
this is a fantastic recipe ! thank you SO much
we loved it !!!!!
Awesome, I am so glad you love my sweet and sour shrimp recipe.
What do you use for the sour component of the sauce? The recipe has only sugar and soy sauce, no sour component such as rice vinegar or apple cider vinegar.
You will get the tang from the ketchup. You can add a bit of rice vinegar or apple cider vinegar but you don’t really need it.
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Thanks for letting me know. Fixed.
Thanks so much for sharing these tips!
RECIPE FOR CHICKEN FEET
Sorry I don’t have it.