
How To Make Sweet Speared Shrimp
Impress your friends with this speared shrimp recipe. It’s simply seasoned with oil, onion, hoisin sauce, and fresh limes.
Serves:
Ingredients
- 2tbspvegetable oil
- ¾tspfreshly ground black pepper
- ¾tspkosher salt
- 36largeshrimp
- ½largered onion
- 2½cuphoisin sauce
- 3limes
Instructions
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Soak your wooden skewers in water for 30 minutes.
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Meanwhile, preheat the broiler or light a medium-hot fire in a charcoal or gas grill.
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Whisk together the oil, pepper, and salt in a large bowl.
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Add the shrimp and toss to coat.
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Thread 3 shrimps onto a skewer, separating the shrimp with 2 or 3 pieces of red onion.
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Repeat until all the shrimp are skewered.
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Leave about 3 inches on the bottom of each for a handhold
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Brush the shrimp with hoisin sauce.
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If broiling, place the skewers on a broiling pan and place the pan about 4 inches from the heat.
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If grilling, place them on the grill.
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Broil or grill for 3 minutes.
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Turn the shrimp over, brush with more hoisin sauce, and broil or grill for 3 minutes more.
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Place the skewers on a serving platter.
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Swirl some of the remaining hoisin sauce over the shrimp.
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Place the rest of the sauce in a small bowl on the platter.
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Decorate the platter with the lime wedges and serve.
Nutrition
- Calories: 160.76kcal
- Fat: 4.40g
- Saturated Fat: 0.52g
- Trans Fat: 0.02g
- Monounsaturated Fat: 2.24g
- Polyunsaturated Fat: 1.38g
- Carbohydrates: 26.14g
- Fiber: 2.10g
- Sugar: 15.09g
- Protein: 4.82g
- Cholesterol: 28.06mg
- Sodium: 980.81mg
- Calcium: 36.01mg
- Potassium: 115.32mg
- Iron: 0.71mg
- Vitamin A: 11.71µg
- Vitamin C: 5.55mg
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