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Spicy-Sweet Glazed Shrimp

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Spicy-Sweet Glazed Shrimp

Everyday Food editor Sarah Carey whips up an easy two-ingredient glaze that adds a sweet heat to grilled shrimp --and so much more.

Everyday Food, July/August July/August 2012
  • Prep Time 20 minutes
  • Total Time 20 minutes
  • Yield Serves 6
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Ingredients

  • Vegetable oil, for grill
  • 2 tablespoons spicy chili sauce, such as Sriracha
  • 1/3 cup honey
  • 2 pounds extra-jumbo shrimp (about 32 total), peeled and deveined (tails left on)
  • Salt and pepper

Directions

  1. Heat a grill or grill pan to high. Clean and lightly oil hot grill. Stir together chili sauce and honey. Assemble kebabs (using 2 long skewers for each, threading 1 skewer through head end of shrimp and 1 through tail end); season with salt and pepper.

  2. Grill until shrimp begin to turn opaque, 2 to 3 minutes. Flip, brush liberally with glaze, and cook until opaque throughout, 3 to 4 minutes. Brush with more glaze and serve.

Cook's Note

Brush On a Glaze
Chili sauce and honey are all you need for major flavor. The glaze caramelizes on the grill for even more complexity. Also try it with bone-in chicken pieces or beef kebabs.

Recipe Reviews

  • sjz21
    23 Aug, 2012

    I love spicy, but this is leaving a burning pain in my mouth post-meal from the chili oil. I used Kikkoman sriraracha. I also don't think the flavors melded well, and it was more like a distinctive honey glaze with a distinctive sriracha sauce. I would add one more ingredient like garlic as it seems to be missing something.

  • Dena Cage-Waddell
    14 Aug, 2012

    Very good. I made this for my family and they loved it!!!