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Asian Garlic Butter Shrimp

September 25, 2018 12 Comments
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Asian Garlic Butter Shrimp - sauteed shrimp with garlic and butter, with mouthwatering Asian flavors! This recipe is outrageously delicious and calls for only five basic ingredients.

Asian Garlic Butter Shrimp - sauteed shrimp with garlic and butter, with mouthwatering Asian flavors! This recipe is outrageously delicious and calls for only five basic ingredients.

Asian Garlic Butter Shrimp - sauteed shrimp with garlic and butter, with mouthwatering Asian flavors! This recipe is outrageously delicious and calls for only five basic ingredients.

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!

Garlic Butter Shrimp with red sauce with Asian flavors.

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.

Asian Garlic Butter Shrimp topped with lemon wedges.

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.

Asian Garlic Butter Shrimp with sauce in a wok.

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?

Close up of cooked Trader Joe's Wild Argentinian Red Shrimp

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.

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Asian Garlic Butter Shrimp Recipe

Asian Garlic Butter Shrimp - sauteed shrimp with garlic and butter, with mouthwatering Asian flavors! This recipe is outrageously delicious and calls for only five basic ingredients.

Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 5 minutes
Total Time 15 minutes
Servings 4 people
Calories 288 kcal

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

  1. Thaw the frozen shrimp.  Rinse with cold water and pat dry with paper towels. 

  2. 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. 

  3. Stir and cook, add chopped scallions to the shrimp. Squeeze some lemon juice on top of the shrimp and serve immediately. 

Recipe Notes

I recommend Trader Joe's Wild Argentinian Red Shrimp for this recipe. You can also use any shelled or deveined shrimp.

You can use oyster sauce in lieu of fish sauce. You will need about 1 heaping tablespoon of oyster sauce and add salt to taste.

Nutrition Facts
Asian Garlic Butter Shrimp Recipe
Amount Per Serving
Calories 288 Calories from Fat 117
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 13g 20%
Saturated Fat 7g 35%
Cholesterol 458mg 153%
Sodium 2030mg 85%
Potassium 208mg 6%
Total Carbohydrates 3g 1%
Sugars 1g
Protein 35g 70%
Vitamin A 13.2%
Vitamin C 14.8%
Calcium 26.3%
Iron 21.5%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

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  1. Mary

    September 25, 2018 at 6:54 PM

    How do you get the recipes? “Get the recipe” for Asian Garlic Butter Shrimp puts you in a circle. No recipe

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    • Lily

      September 26, 2018 at 4:44 AM

      Just scroll all the way down and you can see the recipe and the pictures. Lily

      Reply
  2. Jackie

    September 26, 2018 at 5:52 AM

    The recipe is right there. Just scroll down. What do you mean it “takes you in circles”??

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    • Rasa Malaysia

      September 26, 2018 at 9:39 PM

      Yes, recipe is at the bottom of the page!

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  3. Jackie

    September 26, 2018 at 5:58 AM

    This was absolutely scrumptious! Thank you so much for sharing.

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    • Rasa Malaysia

      September 26, 2018 at 9:34 PM

      Hi Jackie, awww, I am glad that you love this Asian garlic butter shrimp. :)

      Reply
  4. Paula

    September 26, 2018 at 8:15 AM

    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.

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    • Rasa Malaysia

      September 26, 2018 at 9:31 PM

      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/

      Reply
  5. Fiona Gomez

    October 20, 2018 at 6:14 AM

    Finger licking good with hot rice & sambal belacan!

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    • Rasa Malaysia

      October 20, 2018 at 1:58 PM

      Thanks Fiona.

      Reply
  6. Sally Bennett

    November 17, 2018 at 4:41 AM

    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.

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    • Rasa Malaysia

      November 17, 2018 at 11:16 AM

      Hi Sally, the recipe is at the bottom of the page, users have to scroll down to find it.

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