Shrimp with honey/garlic marinade

 

Honey Garlic Shrimp with Rice

Inspired by sallysbakingaddiction.com

Wondering what to make for dinner?
If you have frozen shrimp in the freezer and leftover cooked rice, this is an easy dish to put together. You can add a few frozen peas to the rice and serve with chopped onion greens and chives. For this dish I added chopped snap peas and a red pepper. Served with a salad it makes a delicious dish full of flavor. It can all be prepared ahead - the shrimp can be marinating ready to be cooked, the rice is cooked and the pepper and snap peas chopped.

Ingredients

1 lb shrimp uncooked - peeled and deveined
2 teaspoons olive oil
1 red pepper chopped
6 snap peas chopped (or frozen peas)
Chopped green onions/chives for garnish
1/3 cup honey
1/4 cup soy sauce
 3 garlic cloves minced
1 tablespoon grated fresh ginger

Directions

If not using fresh shrimp, thaw the shrimp completely.
Make the marinade by mixing together 1/3 cup honey, 1/4 cup soy sauce, 3 garlic cloves minced, and 1 tablespoon grated ginger. Once the shrimp is thawed, place shrimp in a plastic bag and cover with half of the marinade mixture. Shake the bag and allow the shrimp to marinate for at least 15 minutes or up to 12 hours.
Heat 2 tablespoons olive oil in a skillet or wok, cook shrimp on one side till pink, about 1 minute and then flip the shrimp over. Pour in remaining marinade sauce and cook it all until shrimp is cooked through about 2 minutes. Remove shrimp. Saute the chopped red pepper and snap peas for two minutes, add the rice and cook to warm through, add the shrimp back and continue to cook for another minute. Serve on a platter with chopped green onions or chives as garnish.

Serve with salad.