one of my favorite dishes to get at Bonefish Grill is Bang Bang Shrimp. there’s one right up the street from us, but it’s a rarity that my husband and i go, mostly because the wait is always forever long, and if we’re craving seafood sushi usually wins hands down! but, a few weeks back on my trip to Myrtle Beach i was able to get some Bang Bang Shrimp! one of my girlfriends is getting married in a few weeks, and for her girls night out we had dinner at Bonefish. two of the other girls and i had gotten this as our meal and our mouths were completely on fire a few bites in! i get this dish often and i definitely love spicy foods, but whatever they did to the shrimp that night, i couldn’t even finish my meal!! as we were talking to the waiter he told us that it’s actually a really easy dish to make. all it had in it was mayonaise, hot sauce, and thai chili sauce! sounded easy enough to me!
with it being Lent and all, i was trying to figure out what to make on Friday night, and decided on trying a hand at Bang Bang Shrimp. super easy and if you don’t feel like frying up shrimp i’m sure the frozen popcorn type butterfly shrimp would work too!
BANG BANG SHRIMP:
- 1lb shrimp (peeled and deveined)
- 1/2 cup mayonaise or miracle whip (you could probably make do with 1/3 cup if you didn’t want it to be too saucy)
- 3 tbsp sweet Thai chili sauce
- 3 tsp hot chili sauce (i used Sriracha)
- corn starch (about 3/4 cup)
- coat the shrimp in corn starch and deep fry, allow to dry on a paper towel
- mix the mayonaise with the chili sauces (if you wanted you could add crushed red pepper in as well, but i think with the Thai chili sauce, it adds more than enough spice!)
- coat the shrimp with the sauce mixture. you can garnish the shrimp with some chopped scallions if you wanted too. i served mine with some steamed rice and snap peas, but if you just wanted to eat it alone, you can also serve it on some lettuce for a prettier presentation!
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