Sriracha-Honey Shrimp Salad

by Nancy

This Sriracha-Honey shrimp salad is a little bit spicy, a little bit sweet and tastes so good with random bites of blue cheese.

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.

For 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.

Serve this as a side or main dish.

Let’s check out the 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.

Spicy and Sweet Sauce

In a small bowl add honey,

…and Sriracha sauce.

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

Add more honey if needed.

Stir together and set aside.

Shrimp

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

Add the shrimp…

…granulated garlic,

…and ground black pepper.

Stir the spices in with the shrimp…

…and then add the spicy and sweet 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.

Prepare the Vegetables

Cut the lettuce in fairly large pieces,

…cut the cucumber in thick pieces (about 1/2 an inch thick) and…

…coarsely cut the celery.

Assemble the Salad

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

Add the cucumber and celery.

Next,

…top with about half of the crumbled blue cheese.

Then…

…time to add…

…the sweet and spicy…

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

Toppings

Top the salad with fresh lime juice…

Add blue cheese on sriracha shrimp salad

…the remaining crumbled blue cheese…

…pepita seeds…

…drizzles of the remaining spicy and sweet sauce from the pan and…

Add ranch dressing on sriracha shrimp salad

…drizzles of Caesar or blue cheese dressing.

Serve

Serve with garlic bread or rolls.

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