Bang Bang Shrimp Copycat recipe (2024)

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Boom boom shrimp is crispy tempura battered shrimp drizzled with a sweet and spicy chili sauce, known as bang bang sauce, this easy appetizer is a crowd pleaser.

Follow the video instructions for this easy boom boom shrimp recipe.

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🥰 Why this recipe works
🦐 Bang Bang Shrimp Ingredients:
🫙 Bang Bang Sauce Ingredients:
🥄 How to make bang bang sauce:
🍤 How to make boom boom shrimp:
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🥰 Why this recipe works

Just like the restaurants, Cheesecake Factory and Bone Fish Grill's amazing appetizer!
Make extra shrimp and add to shrimp tacos or add to a salad for an easy lunch later in the week.
Easy instructions will give you delicious results.

If you like this shrimp recipe, you will want to pick up an extra pound or two of shrimp when you are shopping and make this super easy recipe for Mexican co*cktail shooters.

You make this copycat recipe and indulge in the crunchy, chili sweetness of shrimp at home!

🦐 Bang Bang Shrimp Ingredients:

shrimp, medium, peeled and deveined
buttermilk (or make your own with 1 cup milk plus 1 T. vinegar)
flour
cornstarch
egg
hot sauce
Salt and freshly ground black pepperto taste
Panko Bread Crumbs, Seasoned. (or substitute in your own homemade breadcrumbs)
onion powder
garlic powder
Italian seasonings
vegetable oil as needed (for frying)

🫙 Bang Bang Sauce Ingredients:

mayonnaise
sweet chili sauce
honey
rice vinegar

🥄 How to make bang bang sauce:

Whisk together mayonnaise, sweet chili sauce, honey and rice vinegar in a small bowl.
Set aside while you prepare the shrimp for frying.

🍤 How to make boom boom shrimp:

Heat vegetable oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat.
In a large bowl, whisk together buttermilk, flour, cornstarch, egg, hot sauce, salt, and pepper, to taste.
In a large bowl, combine Panko bread crumbs, onion and garlic powder, Italian seasoning, salt and pepper, to taste.
Working one at a time, dip shrimp into buttermilk mixture, then dredge in Panko mixture, pressing to coat.
Working in small batches, add shrimp to the skillet and cook until evenly golden and crispy, about 2-3 minutes. Transfer to a paper towel-lined plate.
Serve immediately, drizzled with sweet chili sauce.

👩‍🍳 Chef Tip

Your shrimp will be perfect when they form a ‘C’. If they get tighter to form an ‘O’, they are overcooked. C=cooked. O= overcooked.
Your fry oil will now have the essence of shrimp in it. You may use it to fry other items but there is a chance your other items may have a shrimpy flavor to them.
Once the oil has cooled, store it in a closed container and label it as shrimp fry oil.

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Bang Bang Shrimp Copycat recipe

Sarah Mock

I have found this to be the best bang bang shrimp recipe. Tempura battered shrimp, sweet and spicy chili sauce, also known as bang bang sauce, this easy appetizer is a crowdpleaser. Follow the video instructions for this easy bang bang shrimp recipe.

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Ingredients

▢ 1 pound medium shrimp (peeled and deveined)
▢ 1 cup buttermilk (or make your own with 1 cup milk plus 1 T. vinegar)
▢ ¾ cup flour
▢ ½ cup cornstarch
▢ 1 large egg
▢ 1 tablespoon hot sauce
▢ Salt and freshly ground black pepper (to taste)
▢ 1 cup Panko Bread Crumbs (Seasoned.)
▢ ½ teaspoon onion powder
▢ ½ teaspoon garlic powder
▢ ½ teaspoon Italian seasonings
▢ ½ cup vegetable oil (or more, as needed (for frying))

Sauce Ingredients

▢ ¼ cup mayonnaise
▢ 2 tablespoons sweet chili sauce
▢ 1 tablespoon honey
▢ 1 teaspoon rice vinegar

Instructions

Sauce: whisk together mayonnaise, sweet chili sauce, honey and rice vinegar in a small bowl.
¼ cup mayonnaise, 2 tablespoons sweet chili sauce, 1 tablespoon honey, 1 teaspoon rice vinegar
Heat vegetable oil in a large skillet over medium high heat.
½ cup vegetable oil
In a large bowl, whisk together buttermilk, flour, cornstarch, egg, hot sauce, salt and pepper, to taste.
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1 cup buttermilk, ¾ cup flour, ½ cup cornstarch, 1 large egg, 1 tablespoon hot sauce, Salt and freshly ground black pepper
In a large bowl, combine Panko bread crumbs, onion and garlic powder, Italian seasoning, salt and pepper, to taste.
1 cup Panko Bread Crumbs, ½ teaspoon onion powder, ½ teaspoon garlic powder, ½ teaspoon Italian seasonings, Salt and freshly ground black pepper
Working one at a time, dip shrimp into buttermilk mixture, then dredge in Panko mixture, pressing to coat.
1 pound medium shrimp
Working in small batches, add shrimp to the skillet and cook until evenly golden and crispy, about 2-3 minutes. Transfer to a paper towel-lined plate.
Serve immediately, drizzled with sweet chili sauce.

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Notes

Your shrimp will be perfect when the form a ‘C’. If they get tighter to form an ‘O’, they are over cooked. C=cooked. O= overcooked.

Additional Notes: Your fry oil will now have the essence of shrimp in it. You may use it to fry other items but there is a chance your other items may have a shrimpy flavor to them. Once the oil has cooled, store it in a closed container and label it as shrimp fry oil.

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Nutritional facts are estimates and are provided as a courtesy to the reader. Please utilize your own brand nutritional values to double check against our estimates. Nutritional values are calculated via a third party. Changing ingredients, amounts or cooking technique will alter the estimated nutritional calculations.

published December 5, 2016

👩🏻‍🍳 Sarah Mock

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Sarah Mock is a classically trained Chef and graduate of Johnson & Wales University. A culinary blogger for 14 years Sarah helps the home cook prepare her recipes with professional results.

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