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Hot Honey Shrimp

This hot honey shrimp has a dazzling flavor profile—sticky, tangy, and just a little sweet heat. Serve as an appetizer, on skewers if you like, or feel free to add the shrimp to some stir fry vegetables for dinner.

Ingredients

    • Sauce
    • 1/2 cup reduced-sodium soy sauce
    • 2 tablespoons brown sugar
    • 2 tablespoons rice vinegar
    • 1 tablespoon hot honey, such as Mike's®, or to taste
    • 1/4 teaspoon ground ginger
    • 1 teaspoon minced garlic
    • 1 teaspoon sesame oil
    • 1/4 cup water
    • 1 tablespoon cornstarch
    • Shrimp
    • 1 pound colossal shrimp, peeled and deveined
    • salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste
    • 2 teaspoons vegetable oil
    • 1 tablespoon black sesame seeds

Directions

  1. Stir soy sauce, brown sugar, rice vinegar, honey, ginger, garlic, sesame oil, water, and cornstarch together in a small bowl. Set aside.
  2. Pat shrimp dry with a paper towel. Season with salt and pepper.
  3. Heat a skillet over medium-high heat. Add vegetable oil; once oil is shimmering, cook shrimp until tails begin to curl, about 3 minutes.
  4. Pour in sauce; bring to a simmer and cook until shrimp is bright pink and opaque and sauce is thickened, about 2 minutes.
  5. Sprinkle with black sesame seeds and serve.