Stir-Fried Shrimp with Spicy Orange Sauce
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You may remember my post from last year, when I was on a mission to go through my old magazines and save any promising recipes while recycling the rest of the magazine. Well, what became of that project was actually somewhat miraculous – I wound up with a binder full of recipes, separated by type of food and everything. I’ve since made about 6 or 7 recipes from the binder (which is 6 more than I ever made when the magazines were sitting in a pile, intact). It’s great to flip through when I am looking to use something with a particular ingredient, and in this case, the ingredient was shrimp.
This recipe was a winner because I had all the ingredients on hand already; plus it was a good excuse to use use chili paste, which I adore but never remember to use. The only changes I made were to double the chili paste after realizing it wasn’t quite spicy enough for us, and to add cashews, which I thought were a great addition. I served this over some brown rice with steamed peapods and it made a nice, healthy, quick meal (well, it would have been much quicker had I not had to spend time cooking brown rice – but of course, that’s easy enough to do). I will definitely make this recipe again and hopefully this time it won’t take me 3 or 4 years. 🙂
Stir-Fried Shrimp with Spicy Orange Sauce
Serves 2
Adapted from Cooking Light
3/4 lb. peeled and deveined shrimp
1/2 Tbsp. cornstarch
2 Tbsp. fresh orange juice
1 Tbsp. low sodium soy sauce
1 Tbsp. honey
1/2 Tbsp. rice wine vinegar
1 Tbsp. chili paste, such as sambal oelek
1 Tbsp. canola oil
1/2 Tbsp. minced ginger
2 garlic cloves, minced
1/4 cup cashews
3 Tbsp. chopped green onions
Toss shrimp and cornstarch together in a medium bowl.
Whisk together the juice, soy sauce, honey, rice wine vinegar, and chili paste.
Heat a nonstick pan over medium-high heat and add the oil. Stir-fry the ginger and garlic in the pan about15-30 seconds or until fragrant. Add the shrimp and stir-fry for 3 minutes. Add the sauce, onions, and cashews, and stir-fry until shrimp is cooked through and sauce has thickened, about 2 more minutes.
sounds delish! and you know what I think would make it even more fantastic? These chili-lime cashews from TJ’s which I used to make Branny’s carrot cashew soup.
Oooh I’ve never seen those cashews! I’ll have to give them a try!
I’ve got to make this soon – YUM!!
I love Cooking Light so this is right up my alley Elly…right up my alley Elly..that rhymes:D
That dish looks so delicious!!
This one’s going on our menu!
This looks so good! I am definitely going to try it!
Beautiful looking picture. Shrimp is my favorite!
looks delicious – funny I just planned an Asian inspired dinner for tonight with shrimp and rice.
I have 3 similar binders and I LOVE them. I even print off recipes that I want to try from all of my favorite food blogs (this one will be printed!), that way I don’t have to search through a bunch of websites too. It has helped me quite a bit in menu planning, and it’s so much easier to find what I’m looking for!
Wow, this shrimp sounds delicious!
I must make this! 🙂
I’m a fan of all citrus with seafood, yes even orange. I’ve got a case of the yum-yums.
Oooo, Elly you are making my mouth water with this. Love the sweet/sour combo and I am sure my family will love it too!!!
This is very healthy! Love the addition of cashews here and the spicy orange sauce.
this sounds fantastic.
I think the cashews would be great- a nice crunch
YUM-this looks delicious! I don’t even need to order take-out when I can make this dish so easily at home-can’t wait to try it out!
What a tasty way to enjoy some shrimp!
I made this a couple of weeks ago and am making it again tonight. So good! Thanks for sharing.
This is amazingly delicious! 🙂 I had it the other night, and then made wraps with it for lunch yesterday. It can be anything and still be so good
I have had this bookmarked for awhile (apparently, I need to create a binder too!) and I just made it tonight. ABSOLUTELY DELICIOUS. I forgot to buy cashews at the grocery store and didn’t really miss them since the shrimp and sauce were so tasty. Next time I definitely want to try adding them in though because I can imagine they’d go really well with it. Thanks for such a yummy recipe!