Seared Honey Garlic Butter Shrimp coated in the best honey garlic butter sauce is a quick and simple shrimp recipe guaranteed to impress!
Since posting this incredibly popular Honey Garlic Butter Salmon, I’ve been flooded with so many emails from my loyal readers asking for a shrimp version. Therefore due to popular demand, here it is! The best buttery honey garlic shrimp to hit your dinner table ready in less than 10 minutes, and tastes better than any restaurant! No marinading needed!
HONEY GARLIC SHRIMP
This Honey Garlic Shrimp recipe comes to you adapted from our Browned Butter Honey Garlic Shrimp. With the video up on Facebook (here), many readers have been asking if there is a way to make that recipe without browning any butter. YES, THERE IS!
First, we start with my world-wide famous Honey Garlic Butter Sauce! Where garlic butter meets honey to create one of the best flavour combinations you can literally put on anything.
HOW TO MAKE HONEY GARLIC BUTTER
- Butter — use unsalted and adjust the amount of salt when taste testing.
- Honey — any honey is fine to use.
- Garlic — fresh garlic is best but you can use store bought minced garlic if pressed for time.
- Lemon juice (or vinegar) — cuts through the sweetness of the honey. You can leave it out if you wish, but the acidity adds another depth of flavour in the sauce. If using vinegar, you can use white or apple cider!
- Parsley — swap out parsley for rosemary or thyme to add another flavour profile to this incredible Honey Garlic Butter!
HOW TO PAN SEAR SHRIMP
Throw your sauce ingredients in your pan first so all of the flavours blend and melt through each other…then remove just over half and sear your shrimp. You will need to add a little olive oil to the pan so they cook easily without sticking or burning the sauce. Also, cook in batches of two or three to avoid over-crowding the pan.
Wipe the pan over with paper towel between batches to start again with fresh sauce and oil, so each batch is just as good as the first!
EASY!
You end up with a super addictive Shrimp dinner ready in under 10 minutes! Tender shrimp with crisp, caramelised edges, swimming in the most perfect liquid gold! Sweet, tangy and salty all in one!
Your family will go crazy for this honey garlic shrimp recipe!
MORE SHRIMP RECIPES
Out of all the shrimp recipes on Cafe Delites, this is one of the BEST! Creamy Tuscan Shrimp, this Creamy Shrimp Piccata, Garlic Butter Shrimp Scampi and Creamy Lemon Parmesan Shrimp. So many to choose from!
Buttery Honey Garlic Shrimp
Ingredients
- ¼ cup unsalted butter
- ¼ cup honey
- 4 cloves garlic large, minced
- 1-2 tablespoons lemon juice freshly squeezed
- 1 tablespoon olive oil divided
- 21 ounces shrimp or prawns, tails on or off
- 1 pinch salt to season
- 1 pinch pepper to season
- 4 lemon slices to serve
- 1 tablespoon fresh parsley chopped
Instructions
- Melt butter in a non stick pan or skillet over medium-high heat. Add the honey, lemon juice and garlic; stir well to combine all of the flavours together and cook for 30 seconds until the garlic is fragrant. Remove from heat.
- Pour out just over half of the honey garlic butter from the pan, leaving 2 tablespoons in the pan; reserve the rest for later.
- Add 2 teaspoons of the oil into the same pan and sear half of the shrimp for about 2 minutes each side, or until just cooked through and opaque. Transfer to a plate; set aside. Wipe pan over with paper towel and repeat with remaining oil and shrimp.
- Throw the cooked shrimp back into the pan and pour in the remaining honey garlic butter sauce, stirring through the shrimp to evenly coat. Season with salt and pepper if desired and garnish with parsley.
Tess says
Made this recipe for dinner tonight. It was really delicious. I was afraid the garlic or honey would overpower the dish, but it was perfect. It’s also very quick and easy. I served with avocado, rice and an arugula salad. Definitely going into the regular rotation. Thanks for the recipe!
Sophia says
I held my first dinner party and was looking for a simple recipe. My guests loved this recipe!
One of my guest doesn’t even like garlic and she wanted the recipe!
I was afraid that it wouldn’t taste good but it came out so well! I loved how simple it is yet it is flavorful without any of the ingredients being too overpowering.
Thanks so much for this delicious recipe!
MICHELLE MCCARTHY says
Delicious, quick and easy. Whole family enjoyed this recipe.
Tee says
I just made it this evening. It was incredible! Very easy dish to make.
Donna Poe says
This is absolutely delicious and so addicting! I made it for a friend and she loved it. The garlic really does make this so good! It’s a keeper.
Andy Bell says
Wow ! Fantastic , made with jasmine rice turned out great….easy recipe will be on regular rotation !