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What is better than Garlic Butter Shrimp? Asian Garlic Butter Shrimp! Imagine plump and succulent shrimp cooked with minced garlic, butter and amazing Asian flavors.
The sauce is absolutely addictive and every bite is bursting with the briny taste of the sea. It’s delightful!
The amazing flavors come from the simple ingredients of garlic, butter, fish sauce and black pepper.
If you love Thai food and/or Vietnamese food, you would know that fish sauce is the building block of the two Asian cuisines.
It’s made with fresh anchovies and salt; it’s an indispensable ingredient in many Asian dishes.
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Fish sauce is so common these days that you ought to have it in your kitchen pantry. The smell might be pungent (just don’t smell it!) but it adds amazing flavors to the food.
You can get fish sauce in regular grocery stores, in the International food aisle. A small bottle will go a long way. My preferred brand is the three crabs brand or Red Boat (which you can get at Whole Foods, Walmart or online).
If you absolutely can’t stand fish sauce, you can make this dish with oyster sauce, which delivers similar flavors.
Frozen Shrimp
For this recipe, I strongly recommend Trader Joe’s Wild Argentinian Red Shrimp. The shrimps are peeled and deveined; they are big, meaty, taste sweet with a nice firm texture.
A one-pound package is only $9.99. Just look at the pictures here, don’t you just want to sink your teeth into them?
This recipe takes only 15 minutest to make. You can serve it as a main entree, as an appetizer, or as a side dish for rice or noodles.
They are especially tasty with garlic noodles and ginger soy bok choy. Try my recipe, you will love this.
How Many Calories per Serving?
This recipe is only 288 calories per serving.
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Asian Garlic Butter Shrimp
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 lbs. shelled and deveined shrimp
- 4 tablespoons unsalted butter (melted)
- 4 cloves garlic (minced)
- 2 tablespoons fish sauce
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- 3 dashes ground black pepper
- 3 dashes cayenne pepper (optional)
- 1 tablespoon chopped scallion
- 4 slices lemon wedges
Instructions
- Thaw the frozen shrimp. Rinse with cold water and pat dry with paper towels.
- Heat up a wok or skillet on medium heat. Add the melted butter, follow by the garlic. Saute the garlic for 10 seconds and add the shrimp. Stir the shrimp back and forth a few times before adding the fish sauce, sugar, ground black pepper and cayenne pepper, if using.
- Stir and cook, add chopped scallions to the shrimp. Squeeze some lemon juice on top of the shrimp and serve immediately.
Notes
Nutrition
Notice: Nutrition is auto-calculated, using Spoonacular, for your convenience. Where relevant, we recommend using your own nutrition calculations.
Beautiful photos but I find your website very confusing. It took me 5 times of trying before realising that the recipe was at the bottom of the page. I only realised where to find the recipe after looking at other peoples comments, and they obviously had the exact same problem that I did. You must lose a lot of new followers to your site because of this. It would be so simple to inform people that the recipe is at the very bottom of the page.
Hi Sally, the recipe is at the bottom of the page, users have to scroll down to find it.
Aren’t all recipes at the bottom? You read the article first then find the recipe.
If you just use the ‘jump to recipe’ button at the top, it will take you straight to the recipe
Finger licking good with hot rice & sambal belacan!
Thanks Fiona.
What online store do you recommend to buy Asian ingredients? I am having a hard time finding some ingredients and I’d love to try some of the recipes.
Hi Paula, you can get mostly everything on Amazon. Have you tried? Anyway, check out this page for Asian ingredients and you can click on the links to buy: https://rasamalaysia.com/pantry-ingredients/
This was absolutely scrumptious! Thank you so much for sharing.
Hi Jackie, awww, I am glad that you love this Asian garlic butter shrimp. :)
The recipe is right there. Just scroll down. What do you mean it “takes you in circles”??
Yes, recipe is at the bottom of the page!
How do you get the recipes? “Get the recipe” for Asian Garlic Butter Shrimp puts you in a circle. No recipe
Just scroll all the way down and you can see the recipe and the pictures. Lily