Description
This is summertime in a bowl! Spicy shrimp with all the delicious heat, smoke, and sweetness we want, alongside a fresh peach and cucumber salad.
Ingredients
Spicy Shrimp
- 1 lb. shrimp
- 1 teaspoon smoked paprika
- 1 teaspoon curry powder
- 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1/2 teaspoon coarse sea salt (start here, add more as necessary)
- 1/8 to 1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper (add to taste – it’ll make it spicy!)
- 1 tablespoon butter
- a drizzle of honey (to taste – 1 tsp to 1 tablespoon)
Peach Salad
- 2 peaches, pitted and sliced (about 2 cups)
- half an English cucumber, thinly sliced (about 1 cup)
- half a shallot, thinly sliced (about 1/4 cup)
- 2–3 teaspoons olive oil
- 1 lime, juiced and zested (about 1 tablespoon juice, 1 teaspoon zest)
- salt and pepper to taste
- mint leaves (about 2 packed tablespoons)
- 2–3 teaspoons honey to finish (I like hot honey!)
- 1 avocado, cubed (optional)
Instructions
- Peaches and Rice: Toss everything together for the peach salad. Prep anything else you might serve this with (I like rice).
- Shrimp Seasoning: Toss the shrimp with the spices.
- Cook Shrimp: Heat a drizzle of avocado oil in a skillet over nonstick heat. Add the shrimp and cook until no longer translucent, about 2 minutes per side.
- Finish: Add a knob of butter and a drizzle of honey at the end of cooking to toss with the shrimp and pull up some of the browned bits from the bottom of the pan. This will also make the shrimp saucy, glazey, and delicious.
- You’re Done! Yum! Plate the shrimp over rice with a big scoop of that peach salad! So yum.
Notes
When I make this for my family, I wait to add the cayenne until after I pull a few shrimp out of the pan for my daughters! Then once they have a few non-spicy ones, I’ll add the cayenne for my husband and myself. 🙂 The spicy with the sweet is so yummy!
This serves me, my husband, and our two young kids who each only eat a few pieces of shrimp. If you’re serving 4 adults, I would double the shrimp amounts (increase to 2lbs of shrimp and scale spices up).
I personally like to remove the tails before cooking just so that when I’m eating I don’t have to mess with the tails. I thaw the frozen shrimp and then remove the tails before tossing with the spices. But you can do it either way!
- Prep Time: 20 minutes
- Cook Time: 5 minutes
- Category: Dinner
- Method: Stovetop
- Cuisine: American
Keywords: spicy shrimp, shrimp bowl, shrimp dinner, peach salad
