Thai Lemongrass Shrimp
Created by JostLori on April 7, 2017
- Servings: 4
- Prep Time: 25m
- Cook Time: 4m
- Recipe #25898
Ingredients
- 4 garlic cloves, thinly sliced
- 2 Thai chiles, thinly sliced
- 2 stalks lemongrass (fresh, bottom third only, thinly sliced)
- 1 shallot, thinly sliced
- 1 tablespoon chopped fresh ginger
- 2 tablespoons fish sauce (or to taste, Asian fish sauce)
- 2 tablespoons granulated sugar
- 1/4 cup fresh lime juice
- 1/4 cup chopped cilantro
- 2 teaspoons ground coriander
- 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground pepper
- 1 1/2 pounds large shrimp (shelled and deveined)
How to Make
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Step 1: In a small food processor or a thai mortar, combine the garlic, chiles, lemongrass, shallot and ginger and process to a paste.
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Step 2: Scrape the paste into a bowl and stir in the fish sauce, sugar, lime juice, cilantro, coriander and pepper.
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Step 3: Place 2/3 cup of the marinade in a glass bowl, add shrimp and set aside for 15 minutes.
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Step 4: Thread the shrimp onto skewers and discard the marinade. Grill skewers for about 2 minutes per side, using the "clean" marinade for basting.
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Step 5: *Note: you can also cook the shrimp in a lightly oiled skillet, but you won't need all the marinade. Either halve the marinade ingredients, or save the unused amount for another use. Hubby likes to dip his cooked shrimp in the leftover marinade (just make sure it's not the one you soaked the shrimp in!)
Nutritional Facts
- Serving Size: 1 (415.4 g)
- Calories 319.3
- Total Fat - 6.2 g
- Saturated Fat - 1.4 g
- Cholesterol - 283.5 mg
- Sodium - 2747 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 24 g
- Dietary Fiber - 3.6 g
- Sugars - 9.5 g
- Protein - 45.5 g
- Calcium - 143.5 mg
- Iron - 2.7 mg
- Vitamin C - 62.3 mg
- Thiamin - 0.1 mg