Asian healthy shrimp stir fry recipe with snow peas recipe takes 15 minutes to make. It’s low-carb, gluten-free, and a great weeknight meal.
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Why This Recipe Works?
1. If you are looking for a quick-fix meal for your family dinner on a busy weekday, shrimp stir fry rice is perfect for you and your family.
2. Easily substitute any vegetables of your choice for this stir-fry recipe. Snow peas, broccoli, zucchini, or any other vegetables will work to make this recipe.
3. Simple but amazing Asian flavors in the stir-fry sauce – soy sauce, ginger, garlic. Season well. Your meal is ready!
4. It’s very easy to make, hardly takes 15 minutes tops from stove to table.
Ingredients
Variations
You can choose your favorite vegetables such as – bok choy, spinach, broccoli, bell peppers, and mushrooms.
Use chicken thighs instead of shrimp (make chicken stir fry)
Make it a dry dish with less sauce or make it saucier by increasing the sauce amount. Saucier shrimp stir fry is great when served with steamed rice, jasmine rice, or couscous.
Don’t like rice, serve it over Asian noodles.
How to make
- In a bowl whisk all ingredients mentioned under the list ‘For sauce’.
- High heat a wok. Add sesame oil and wait until sesame oil is really hot (toasted sesame oil).
- Stir fry fresh ginger and garlic in the wok for 5 seconds. Add scallions and toss a few times. Throw in clean shrimp and cook for 30 seconds on high heat. Season with pepper (do add red chili flakes if you like to add a bit of kick to the dish) and salt.
- Add snow peas to the wok. Toss a few times.
- Pour the sauce and give it a good stir. Keep stirring to avoid the sauce turning hard or turning into lumps.
- Once the sauce is slightly thickened, garnish with spring onions, and sesame seeds and remove from heat.
- Serve this gingered stir-fry shrimp and snow peas with brown rice immediately.
Helpful tips
Wok- An Asian skillet or Chinese wok is best for any stir fry. Works tend to heat up fast and work best for stir fry. Heat the wok on high heat, throw in the vegetables and proteins, and cook each ingredient for 30 seconds or more on high heat.
Recipe FAQs
Not at all spicy for my palate. You will taste the warmth of ginger and garlic along with very mild heat from ground pepper. That’s about it!
Yes, add red chili flakes or Asian spicy sweet chili sauce or schezwan sauce to make the dish spicy.
Yes, you can. Make sure to thaw completely and pat dry it with a kitchen paper towel to remove excess water. Shrimp should be dry before you start cooking.
When you start cooking shrimp, it forms a shape like the letter “C”. Once shrimp forms “C”, stop cooking it. Over-cooked shrimp will taste rubbery and are unpleasant to eat. If see shrimp curling up to form the letter “O”, you overcooked shrimp!
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📋Healthy Shrimp Stir-Fry with Snow Peas
Equipment
- Wok
- Tongs
- Small mixing bowl
Ingredients
- 1 lb shrimp
- 1 cup snow peas
- 3 tablespoon sesame oil
- 1 ½ tablespoon ginger julienne
- 1 teaspoon garlic finely chopped
- ½ cup scallions
- salt to taste
For sauce-
- 3 tablespoon low sodium light soy sauce
- 1 tablespoon corn starch (I prefer to use rice flour for no specific reason in place of corn starch)
- 1 ½ tablespoon honey
- 1 teaspoon garlic finely chopped
- 1 ½ teaspoon ground pepper (substitution – red pepper flakes)
- 2 tablespoon lime juice
For garnish
- Spring onions
- Sesame seeds
Instructions
- In a bowl whisk all ingredients mentioned under the list ‘For sauce’.
- High heat a wok. Add sesame oil and wait until sesame oil is really hot (toasted sesame oil).
- Stir fry fresh ginger and garlic in the wok for 5 seconds. Add scallions and toss few times. Throw in clean shrimps and cook 30 seconds high heat. Season the shrimps with pepper (do add red chili flakes if you like to add a bit of kick to the dish) and salt.
- Wash snow peas well. Trim off the stem and add them to the wok. Toss few times.
- Pour the sauce and give it a good stir. Keep stirring to avoid sauce turning hard or turning into lumps.
- Once sauce is slightly thickened, garnish with spring onions, sesame seeds and remove from heat.
- Serve this gingered stir fry shrimp and snow peas with brown rice immediately.
Comments & Reviews
Ann says
I cook a lot and this is by far my favorite Asian sauce recipe I have ever made. Needed no adjusting for me except for adding the red pepper flakes which was suggested. Thanks so much.
Jyothi Rajesh says
Thank you Ann, so glad to hear you loved the recipe
Jane C says
I didn’t have avocado oil, so I used 1 Tbsp olive oil and had mushrooms so added them.
My husband gave this 10 stars. I also used Jasmiine rice.
Jyothi Rajesh says
So glad to hear you and your family loved the recipe Jane