These ultra-yummy shrimp and broccoli come together for a quick and easy healthy dinner in minutes! Serve with rice or over noodles.
Looking for a healthy and easy weeknight meal? Try these shrimp and broccoli! The pair is simmered with soy sauce and rice vinegar until glossy and flavorful. The contrast between tender, crunchy broccoli and juicy shrimp is tough. Serve with rice or pasta for a complete meal that cooks up quickly! Depending on what you serve with it, dinner can be on the table in as little as 20 minutes! Alex and I love to serve it and our son Larson is a big shrimp fan. That’s how it’s done!
What’s in those shrimp and broccoli?
Great taste comes from just a few ingredients! This recipe uses Asian-style flavors to create a hearty and complex sauce. Here’s what you need:
- Large Shrimp: It can be fresh or frozen, peeled or unpeeled. The shrimp tail is the prettiest, but you have to remove the tail when eating (which can be a logistical challenge!).
- broccoli
- White Onion
- rice vinegar
- soy pasture
- Chili Garlic Sauce: Optional, but adds a lot of flavor and a bit of spiciness
- Sesame oil: For cooking (not roasted)
This recipe comes together so quickly! Sauté the broccoli and onion over medium-high heat for 5-6 minutes, then add the shrimp for 3-4 minutes. Then pour vinegar, soy sauce and chilli garlic sauce over the sauce and cook for 1 more minute. Dinner is ready!
Option 1: Shrimp & Broccoli with Pasta!
The quickest serving suggestion for shrimp and broccoli is to use Rice noodles or soba noodles. Many packages of rice noodles don’t even need to be boiled: just pour boiling water over the noodles! Many rice noodles are also gluten-free (see packaging). Soba noodles are also a good choice; These are buckwheat noodles cooked over the fire like traditional noodles. Try our quick soba noodles!
Be sure to taste after cooking! Toss the cooked noodles with sesame oil and some salt to flavor them a bit before serving. A little shrimp sauce will remain, which you can spoon out as well.
Option 2: Shrimp & Broccoli with Rice!
Another great option for these Asian Shrimp and Broccoli is to serve with rice! Either way, make sure you start the rice before you start cooking the shrimp. What you need to know about the rice varieties:
How to thaw frozen shrimp
Are you using frozen shrimp for this shrimp and broccoli recipe? There are several ways to defrost shrimp depending on when you plan to cook the recipe:
- The previous day: If you plan ahead, simply place the frozen shrimp in the fridge overnight.
- day of: Place frozen shrimp in a large bowl of very cold water. Shake the bowl every 5 minutes to break up clumps of frozen shrimp. Shrimp should be defrosted in about 15 minutes.
What to look out for when buying shrimp?
Is there a preference between fresh and frozen shrimp? How about buying sustainable fish? Here’s what you need to know when buying shrimp from the grocery store:
- Fresh vs frozen. One myth about fish is that “fresh fish is best,” but frozen fish isn’t necessarily inferior in quality. In fact, it could be higher! If a fish is frozen when you catch it and stays frozen until it reaches you, it’s of better quality than a raw fish that takes a week to get to your basket.
- Search for Wild or Caught in the USA. Wild fishing is generally a sustainable choice if you can find it. If you live in the United States, look after us taken. Imported seafood is at risk of being overfished, caught under unfair labor conditions, or farmed in environmentally harmful ways.
- Seek hook and line as an example of a type of sustainable fishing gear. Bottom trawling is considered to be the most destructive and least sustainable method.
This shrimp and broccoli recipe is…
Gluten-free, dairy-free and pescetarian.
The description
These ultra-yummy shrimp and broccoli come together for a quick and easy healthy dinner in minutes! Serve with rice or over noodles.
- 1 Pound large shrimp, deveined (peeled or unpeeled)
- 1 1/2 Pound (3 large heads) broccoli
- 1 small white onion
- 2 tablespoons rice vinegar
- 4 tablespoons soy pasture
- ½ tbsp Chili garlic sauce (optional)
- 2 tablespoons Sesame oil (regular, unroasted)
- ¼ teaspoon kosher salt
- Sesame seeds, for garnish
- Thinly sliced spring onion, for garnish (optional)
- To serve: rice or pasta (see notes above)
- If frozen, thaw the shrimp according to package directions or notes above.
- Cut the broccoli into bite-sized pieces. Cut the onion into large slices.
- In a measuring cup, combine rice vinegar, soy sauce, and chili garlic sauce.
- In a large skillet or wok, heat the sesame oil over medium-high heat. Add the broccoli, onion, and kosher salt and cook until tender, 5 to 6 minutes, stirring occasionally. Add shrimp and cook 3 to 4 minutes, stirring frequently.
- When the shrimp are almost opaque, add the sauce mixture and cook for 1 minute. Remove from fire. Serve with sesame seeds.
- Category: main course
- Method: Cook
- Kitchen: Asian
- Diet: Gluten free
Keywords: Shrimp and Broccoli
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