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Shrimp Stir Fry
Shrimp stir fry is a complete meal-in-one and easy to make at home in less time than driving to your favorite Chinese restaurant! It’s bursting with juicy shrimp and crisp tender veggies enveloped in a drool-worthy orange sweet and sour sauce laced with ginger, garlic and chili sauce. This shrimp stir fry recipe is easy to make with a quick marinade while you chop the veggies then you’re just a 10-minute stir fry away from dinner. This recipe is also easy to customize with whatever veggies you love from bell peppers and snow peas to, carrots, mushrooms and zucchini. Complete shrimp stir fry recipe with steamed rice or low carb cauliflower rice, homemade egg rolls and cream cheese wontons for a complete Chinese feast.
👥 4 Servings⏱️ Prep & Cook: 25 min⏳ Prep: 15 min🔥 Cook: 10 min👤 Jen📖 carlsbadcravings
🥘 Ingredients
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🍳 Cookware
- bowl
- whisk
- skillet
📝 Preparation Steps
1
Whisk soy sauce and rice wine together in a medium bowl. Add shrimp and stir to combine; let rest for ⏱️ 10 minutes up to ⏱️ 30 minutes at room temperature. Meanwhile, whisk the Stir Fry Sauce ingredients together in a medium bowl starting with 1/3 cup sugar. Add additional sugar to taste (will depend on orange juice and how spicy you like it); set aside.
2
Heat 1 tablespoon vegetable oil in a large cast iron skillet over high heat until just smoking. Add half of the shrimp and cook, without stirring, until the bottom of the shrimp are browned at the edges, about ⏱️ 1 minute. Flip shrimp over and cook just until opaque and nearly cooked through, about ⏱️ 30 seconds; transfer to a plate. Repeat with remaining shrimp.
Vegetable oil (divided)3 tablespoons
3
Heat 1 tablespoon oil in in the now empty skillet over medium high heat. Add onions and carrots and stir fry for ⏱️ 2 minutes. Add bell peppers, ginger and garlic and stir fry for ⏱️ 1 minute.
carrots (thinly sliced)2minced ginger1 tablespoongarlic (minced)4 cloves
4
Whisk sauce (to recombine) and add to skillet. Bring the sauce to a boil then reduce to a simmer until sauce has thickened, ⏱️ 1-2 minutes. Stir in snow peas and cook one additional minute. Add shrimp and heat through.
5
Garnish with additional chili sauce, green onions to taste if desired.
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