This Sriracha-Honey shrimp salad is a little bit spicy and sweet.

Sriracha Honey Shrimp Salad on plate

No matter how you look at it, spicy and sweet flavors taste so good together in sauces and marinades.

An easy way to make a spicy and sweet sauce is to mix just two ingredients…

…Sriracha sauce and honey.

The spicy sauce is easy to make and tastes really good.

The flavor can be adjusted by adding more or less Sriracha and honey.

If the sauce is too spicy for your liking, add more honey, or if the sauce isn’t spicy enough, add more Sriracha.

About the Shrimp

In this recipe, shrimp is lightly sautéed in butter along with the spicy and sweet sauce.

And wella, that’s really it for the shrimp.

Serve this as a side or main dish.

About Serving

Just top a salad with this flavorful shrimp and you have a wonderful meal.

And for more flavor, top the salad with crumbled blue cheese and roasted pepita (pumpkin) seeds.

Let’s check out the ingredients.

Sriracha Honey Shrimp Salad ingredients

Spicy and Sweet Sauce – honey and Sriracha sauce

Shrimp – peeled and deveined large shrimp (the tails can be left on as an option), spicy and sweet sauce, granulated garlic, and ground black pepper

Salad – cooked shrimp, spicy and sweet sauce, romaine lettuce, cucumber, celery, crumbled blue cheese, roasted, salted and shelled pepita (pumpkin) seeds, lime juice, and your favorite Caesar or blue cheese salad dressing

HOW TO MAKE THIS RECIPE

A printable recipe with the measurements and instructions is located at the bottom of this post.

For the Spicy and Sweet Sauce:

Add honey to bowl

In a small bowl add honey,

Add Sriracha sauce to bowl

and Sriracha sauce.

Honey and sriracha sauce in bowl

Mix and do a taste test to see if it’s too spicy for your liking.

Add more honey if needed.

Mix together and set aside.

For the Shrimp:

Melted butter in skillet

Heat a medium size skillet on medium heat and add butter.

Add shrimp to skillet

Add the shrimp…

Cook shrimp in skillet

…granulated garlic,

Pepper on shrimp in skillet

…and ground black pepper.

Cook shrimp in skillet

Stir the spices in with the shrimp…

Add sriracha sauce to shrimp in pan

…and then add the spicy and sweet sauce.

Cook shrimp with honey sriracha sauce

Stir and cook for another 2 minutes or until the shrimp is cooked.

Remove the skillet from the heat and set aside for a moment.

For the Salad:

Chopped lettuce on cutting board

Chop the lettuce in fairly large pieces,

Cut cucumbers on cutting board

cut the cucumber in fairly thick pieces (about 1/2 an inch thick).

Chopped celery on cutting board

Chop the celery in fairly large pieces.

Lettuce and cucumbers on plate

To a large serving platter or single serving dishes, add a layer of the lettuce.

Add the cucumber and celery.

Crumbled blue cheese on salad

Next, top with about half of the crumbled blue cheese.

Sriracha Shrimp and Salad on plate

Add shrimp on salad

Add sriracha shrimp on salad

Add sriracha shrimp on salad

Sriracha Honey Shrimp Salad on plate

add the shrimp (reserve the sauce that’s left in the pan and set the pan aside for a moment).

Add lime juice on Sriracha Shrimp Salad

Squeeze fresh lime juice on the salad.

Add blue cheese on sriracha shrimp salad

Add the remaining crumbled blue cheese on top of the shrimp.

Add pepita seeds on sriracha shrimp salad

Top with pepita seeds,

Add sriracha sauce on shrimp salad

the remaining spicy and sweet sauce from the pan,

Add ranch dressing on sriracha shrimp salad

and drizzles of Caesar or blue cheese dressing.

Sriracha Honey Shrimp Salad on plate

Serve this shrimp salad with garlic bread or rolls with butter.

Sriracha Honey Shrimp Salad on plate

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Spicy Shrimp Salad

Sriracha-Honey Shrimp Salad

A flavor packed salad with spicy and sweet shrimp.
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Yield: 2 Servings
Prep: 14 minutes
Cook: 6 minutes
Total: 20 minutes

Ingredients

For the Spicy and Sweet Sauce:

  • 1/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons honey
  • 1/4 cup Sriracha sauce

For the Shrimp:

  • 1 tablespoon butter
  • 12 large raw shrimp peeled and deveined Shrimp (tails on optional)
  • 3 dashes granulated garlic
  • 3 dashes ground black pepper

For the Salad:

  • 4 cups cut romaine lettuce cut in fairly large pieces
  • 3/4 cup cut cucumbers cut in about 1/2 inch thick pieces
  • 3/4 cup chopped celery cut in fairly large pieces
  • 3 tablespoons crumbled blue cheese
  • 1/2 lime juiced (for the salad)
  • 2 tablespoons roasted, salted and shelled pepita (pumpkin) seeds a topping for the salad
  • 1/4 cup plus about 2 tablespoons of Caesar or blue cheese salad dressing
  • 1/2 lime cut into 4 wedges (for garnish)

Instructions

For the Spicy and Sweet Sauce:

  • In a small bowl add honey and Sriracha sauce.  Mix together and do a taste test; if it's too spicy for your liking, add more honey.
  • Mix together and set aside.

For the Shrimp:

  • Heat a medium size skillet on medium heat and add butter. 
  • When the butter starts to melt, add the shrimp, granulated garlic, ground black pepper, and the spicy and sweet sauce. 
  • Stir in the spices with the shrimp. Cook for another 2 more minutes or until the shrimp are done. Remove the skillet from the heat and set aside for a moment.

For the Salad:

  • To a large serving platter or single serving plates, add a layer of the lettuce.  Top with cucumber and celery. 
  • Next, top with half of the crumbled blue cheese, and the shrimp (reserve the sauce that’s left in the shrimp pan). 
  • Squeeze the juice of 1/2 of a lime on the salad.  Add the remaining crumbled blue cheese on top of the shrimp. 
  • Top with pepita seeds and the remaining spicy and sweet sauce from the pan.  
  • Serve right away with drizzles of Caesar or blue cheese dressing on top. Serve with garlic bread or rolls and butter.
Author: Nancy@CouponClippingCook
Course: Appetizer, Main Course, Salad, Side Dish
Cuisine: American
Keyword: Shrimp Salad

This recipe was originally posted on June 5, 2013.

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