How To Make Vietnamese Caramelized Shrimp
Serves:
Ingredients
- ¼cupfish sauce
- 2tbspdark brown sugar,packed
- ½tspcrushed red pepper flakes
- ½cupwater
- ¼cupVegetable Oil
- 1mediumyellow onion,finely chopped
- 5clovesgarlic,minced
- 2lbsextra large shrimp,peeled and deveined, thawed if frozen
- 3scallions,white and green parts, thinly sliced
- ⅓cupfresh cilantro,chopped
Instructions
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Combine the fish sauce, dark brown sugar, crushed red pepper flakes and water in a medium bowl and whisk until brown sugar is dissolved.
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Heat the vegetable oil in a large sauté pan over medium heat. Add the onions and cook, stirring frequently, until soft and translucent. Add the garlic and cook a few minutes more. Do not brown.
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Turn the heat up to medium-high and add the shrimp. Cook, stirring frequently, until the shrimp are just barely pink and still translucent in spots.
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Add the fish sauce mixture, turn heat down to medium, and simmer until shrimp are cooked through.
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Off the heat, stir in scallions and cilantro. Serve immediately with jasmine rice.
Nutrition
- Calories: 219.41kcal
- Fat: 10.92g
- Saturated Fat: 1.02g
- Trans Fat: 0.10g
- Monounsaturated Fat: 7.00g
- Polyunsaturated Fat: 2.06g
- Carbohydrates: 7.94g
- Fiber: 0.60g
- Sugar: 4.38g
- Protein: 21.71g
- Cholesterol: 190.51mg
- Sodium: 1802.36mg
- Calcium: 104.67mg
- Potassium: 272.75mg
- Iron: 0.64mg
- Vitamin A: 89.72µg
- Vitamin C: 3.87mg
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