My little nieces love Panda Express’ honey walnut shrimp. I recreated this recipe and my taste testers approved with two thumbs up. If you have picky eaters, they’ll love this recipe.
Honey Walnut Shrimp
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Recipe type: Appetizer
Serves: 4 servings
Ingredients
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 cup water
- 1 Tbsp honey
- 1 cup Walnuts
Shrimp Batter:
- 1 Lbs. Devein and Peeled Shrimp
- 1 Egg
- 1 cup Glutinous Rice Flour or Corn Starch
- ½ tsp Salt (depending on taste)
- ¼ tsp Black Pepper
Sauce:
- 3 Tbsp Mayo
- 2 Tbsp Sweetened Condense Milk
- 2 Tbsp Honey
- ½ small lime or lemon
- Garnish with spring onions
- Vegetable Oil for deep frying the shrimp batter
Instructions
- Pour sugar, water, honey and walnuts into a sauce pan on low to low-medium heat and let it simmer for no more than 10 minutes. Use a slotted spoon and remove the walnut unto parchment or wax paper and let them cool.
- Make sauce by mixing the mayo, honey, condense milk and lime juice and cover and leave in fridge until you are ready to use.
- Mix the egg into the devein and peeled shrimp. Add salt and pepper to taste. Cover and leave it in the fridge for 10 minutes.
- Prepare your flour station. Add glutinous rice flour into a dish and flour your shrimp egg mixture and shake off any excess flour and put it in another clean dish until you are ready to deep fry.
- Deep fry your flour egg shrimp battered in at temperature 340-350 degree fryer and deep fry 3-4 minutes until golden brown.
- Cool fried shrimp unto parchment paper or paper towel.
- Take out your sauce out of the fridge for 10 minutes before you mix your deep fried shrimp.
- Mix the sauce until smooth and gently toss in the deep fried shrimp and honey walnuts.
- Garnish with spring green onions and serve right away otherwise your shrimp will get soggy and lose its crispiness and bounciness.
