Bang Bang Shrimp
October 2, 2011 in appetizer, seafood
Time for another delicious football snack! This one would be good for a nice dinner too though!
So this is supposed to be like the Bonefish dish with the same name but I’ve never had the dish so I can’t really say how close it is to the real thing. I can, however, say that it is amazing.
Not going to lie, it was quite a bit of work because you have to deep fry the shrimp but seriously worth all the time spent staring into the pot of oil. It’s spicy but not so spicy that your mouth is on fire.
adapted from Chef Mommy
Ingredients
1 lb. medium shrimp, peeled and deveined
For the sauce:
½ cup mayonnaise
4-5 teaspoons chili garlic sauce, such as Sriracha sauce
1 teaspoon granulated sugar
1 teaspoon rice vinegar
For the egg mixture:
1 egg, beaten
1 cup milk
For the breading mixture:
½ cup all-purpose flour
½ cup panko breadcrumbs
1 teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon ground black pepper
¼ teaspoon onion powder
¼ teaspoon garlic powder
¼ teaspoon dried basil
For frying:
8 to 12 cups vegetable oil
Instructions
- Combine all ingredients for the sauce in a small bowl; cover and set aside.
- Combine beaten egg with milk in shallow bowl; set aside.
- Combine flour, panko, salt, black pepper, onion powder, garlic powder, and basil in another shallow bowl; set aside.
- Bread the shrimp by first coating each with the breading mixture. Dip breaded shrimp into the egg and milk mixture, and then back into the breading. Arrange the coated shrimp on a plate and pop them into the fridge for at least 20 minutes. This step will help the breading to stick on the shrimp when they are frying.
- Heat oil in deep fryer to 350 degrees F. Use amount of oil required by your fryer.
- When oil is hot, fry shrimp 2 to 3 minutes or until golden brown. Drain on rack or paper towels.
- When all shrimp has been fried, drop the shrimp into a large bowl. Spoon about ¼ cup of sauce over shrimp and stir gently to coat.
I found this on Pinterest and made these last night. They were AMAZING! I’ve only attempted to fry things once before (and it didn’t turn out so well), so I was very happy and surprised to find that this was very easy to do and it comes out delicious! I go to Bonefish a lot and most of the time I get the Bang Bang Shrimp Tacos. I doubt I could even tell the difference between the two, honestly. I followed the recipe exactly (except for maybe a little extra Sriracha) and it was perfect. I’m definitely going to check out some more of your recipes :)
I wonder if this can be made with chicken?
Yes! My friend Julie made it with chicken: http://www.tablefortwoblog.com/2012/01/04/bang-bang-chicken/ She said it was awesome. :)
I am doing this recipe tonight and using chicken instead of shrimp.
This may be a stupid question but, do I buy raw or already cooked shrimp for this recipe?
Raw shrimp. I use the tail-off ones but you could use the ones with tails too, as long as you don’t try to eat the tails too! :P
Yes it can! I’ve had them…delicious!
Do u serve on the side the balance of the sauce – 3/4 of it as you only coated the shrimp in large bowl with a 1/4 amount?
Just curious
Love Bang-Bang Shrimp! I make it almost the same way, except that i dredge the shrimp in corn starch , then egg, then breadcrumbs…the cornstarch gives it the extra crispy texture and then i don’t have problems with the breadcrumbs not sticking. I have a friend that her recipe is simply dredging in corn starch, flash frying it and tossing it in the sirracha/ mayo sauce. It works well too!
The Corn Starch suggestion was really helpful! These are so amazing!
We love Bang Bang Shrimp and used to go to Bonefish Grill & Joe’s Crab Shack (Rochester’s original) all the time for them. Until I found an easy recipe for them ~ mine’s much less work then the one above.
Bang Bang Shrimp (Bonefish Grill’s Recipe)
1/2 cup mayonnaise
1/4 cup Thai Sweet Chili Sauce
3 drops Sriracha Hot Chili Sauce (or to taste)
1 pound shelled and deveined shrimp
Dry cornstarch
oil for frying
lettuce
chopped scallions
Directions:
Mix mayonnaise with Thai Sweet Chili Sauce. Add hot sauce to taste. Dredge the shrimp in cornstarch. Deep fry the shrimp until lightly brown. Drain on paper towel, put in a bowl and coat with the sauce. Serve in a lettuce lined bowl, top with chopped scallions.
Deborah, glad u posted this.. I’ve made it this way too.. so much easier & just like Bonefish Grill
I don’t like to fry (trying to be healthy). Couldn’t I still bread it and bake the shrimp then do the sauce?
Rich
Melissa – There’s good frying and then there’s bad frying. Good frying is using vegetable oil or canola oil and frying at a high temp (also called Flash Frying) 350 – 375 degrees. Since the shrimp will only cook for only 3 to 4 minutes, little to no oil is absorbed. Attempting to oven bake them will not allow them to become crisp on the outside and over cook on the inside. In which case they will have a rubbery texture.
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Melissa, I don’t like frying either (hate the clean up) so when I make my Bang Bang shrimp, I toss it in corn starch and saute on high heat with 1 tbsp of canola oil for about 3 minutes. It taste delicious and my hubby loves it better than when it is fried.
You know that’s still frying right? just in a pan instead of a deep fryer.
what about frying in coconut oil? Isn’t that better? or no?
I’m really not sure about coconut oil. I’ve done a lot of sauteeing with it but I really don’t know how deep frying would work.
We call it Firecracker Shrimp down south
I made this recipe last week for my husband & he absolutely loooved it, & today I’m featuring it on my blog :) Thanks so much for introducing us to the recipe!
Is there a way that this can use gluten free floor like GF bisquick? I absolutely love it at bonefish grill.
I really haven’t worked with many GF products so I can’t be sure. I would say no to Bisquick because if it’s like the regular stuff, it has leaveners and other ingredients in it already. But maybe a GF flour, like coconut? If you wanted, I bet you could skip the flour and just make your own GF bread crumbs (or can you buy those?) to bread them with.
Sorry, I wish I could help more. I need to make it a goal to play around with some GF ingredients.
Amy, I have to eat Gluten Free and tried this recipe (fantastic by the way) with GF biscuit and it worked out great!! You will be happy!
I meant Bisquick
I made it gluten free too but with gf all purpose flour. It was very good and the kids loved it.
I am going to try using corn starch instead of the flour… I make my sweet and sour chicken with an agg wash and corn starch and it comes out amazingly golden brown and crispy. This looks soo good!
Never heard of Bonefish so I googled it… how is this place that seems delicious all over the US but not in Cali?! Looks yummy! Adding this to my collection of recipes to try for the hubby — I tried skimming the comments to see but didn’t see anything, thoughts on making it in the oven instead of frying??
I’ve heard from people who have baked the shrimp (with or without breading) and pan-fried it (without breading) and had great results. I also had someone tell me they bought a box of frozen breaded shrimp and used that! Much quicker and easier than frying. Let me know how it goes! :)
I find the best way to bake them is to add a little veg oil to the panko when you are breading them. Place them on parchment lined baking sheet and cook on high heat turning over once.
I do it with chicken all the time and it’s great. Add enough oil to just barely moisten the panko. I do oven “fried” chicken that way and that’s how I make my chicken for orange chicken and sesame chicken etc.
I definitely plan on giving this a go! (probably baked because it’s cleaner for me than frying. I always make such a mess when I fry.)
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I just made this tonight with chicken and it was delightful. Hubby wants it on the repeat list. I can only imagine how yummy it will be when i make it with shrimp. Thank you for a great and simple recipe.
Hey ladies, if you need Gluten Free option when a recipe calls for White All Purpose Flour? Well, my Great Aunt had issues with Gluten too, she found a great substitute was Rice Flour, which can be found at many Asian markets like H-Mart.
OMG! They are delish! I love Bang Bang and go just for that, my husband hates going. Now I can have it at home! Horray for me! Thank you!
I didn’t deep fry the shrimp, I just put some olive oil in the bottom of a pan and fried them that way. I also left out the bread crumbs because I didn’t have any and was too lazy to go to the store. BUT this recipe is fantastic. I don’t have a family yet, but I can imagine it would be a family favorite, even for kids. The sauce was phenomenal. I like spice, so I added more sriracha, but mild would be good too. I ate them by themselves, but I can imagine that they would be even better in fish tacos. Thanks for the recipe!
Omg, making this with fish tacos (or shrimp tacos) would be amazing!! what a great idea :O!
this recipe is amazon it’s better and fresher then bonefish it’s crispy
I made this for dinner tonight and loved it! Even my husband, who isn’t a big fan of shrimp, thought it was good.
I made this dish today and it was very tasty! Thanks for sharing :D
I’ve made this twice and it is one of the BEST recipes I’ve ever made…I cook every single night and try different things out on pinterest quite frequently..this is by far my fav…sooo yummy..tastes just like bonefish’s recipe! Will continue to make again and again…EXCELLENT!!!
AWESOME version of the ” Bang Bang Shrimp”. This is delish! The only thing I have noticed is that they use some kind of red pepper flakes. So I added a pinch…. <3 it! Thanks for finding this
What an incredibly simple, yet unbelievably tastey recipe! I modified slightly during breading process; coated each shrimp with cornstarch before dipping in the egg…perfectly cripsy heaven!!!!
THank you :)
I don’t have Panko bread crumbs, would it still taste okay if I used regular bread crumbs?
I’m not 100% but I think it would be fine. They may not get as crunchy as the panko would but I’m sure it would still be tasty!
A great recipe. I modified it by adding 1/4 Thai sweet red chili sauce and 1 clove of crushed garlic to sauce. Also reduced vinegar to 1/2 teaspoon and dropped sugar since Thai sauce is sweet. Also reduced hot sauce to 4-5 drops, and added splash of hot chili oil to frying oil. Shrimp have nice crunchy bites, and sauce excellent. Thanks for sharing.
WOW I made this and it was great. The second time marinated the shrimping the seasoning the grilled. I liked it even better!
What’s a substitute for the chili garlic sauce. I can’t find it anywhere.
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Thank you for the recipe!! I made it and it tastes EXACTLY like it!! I can’t believe you were able to get the recipe without ever trying it! Delicious! Thanks again!
LOVE this!!! it tastes just like the Firecracker Shrimp I got on vacation in Daytona Beach at the Mai Tai bar!!! I’ve been craving it since we got home a month ago and now I’m soo excited i can make it at home!!
Im trying these tonight!!! Did you top these with scallions? And I couldn’t find rice vingear I have white.. How much do you think I should add? Thanks :)
Yes, I topped them with scallions. They make everything better! :) I would add just a teeny tiny bit of the white vinegar since it’s so much stronger than the rice vinegar.
I made this tonight for a group of friends. It was absolutely perfect exactly as written! Raves all around!
I made this recipe tonight. It was so delicious! I made it for my husband, I usually don’t like shrimp…I loved this just as much as he did. Mine didn’t look like the picture..my sauce was a little thick so it didn’t coat the shrimp like the picture but it was great!
I made a double batch of the sauce while we were on family vacation last week. We do a fried shrimp night every year and this made it extra special. I saved the extra sauce to serve with crabcakes 2 nights later – word of warning: It gets SPICIER when it sits! (I did add a little bit of Thai Sweet Chili sauce instead of the sugar, and I stirred sliced scallions into the sauce.)
We make this and it’s Amazing, but we changed it to
For the sauce: 1/2 cup mayonnaise
4-5 teaspoons Sweet Thai Chili Sauce
to tastes Sriracha sauce
1 teaspoon granulated sugar
1 teaspoon rice vinegar
I made these tonight. They were absolutely delicious. Didn’t mind the frying. The breading was very time consuming thoug. But it was soooooo worth it. Followed the recipe to the tee. The only thing I will change for next time, is less milk. Didn’t need that much. Thanks for the recipe!!!!
Love!!! I accidentally bought a sweet chili sauce instead of the recipe ingredient Garlic Chili Sauce. My husband loved it but said it was not as hot as Bone Fish Grill’s appetizer. Everything else was of perfect consistency and texture as that of the Bone Fish Grill. A definite keeper!!!!
My boring shrimp just became “out of this world” shrimp! DELICIOUS! Thank you so much for sharing.
I may be wrong, but Chili Garlic Sauce and Sriracha are the same at ALL..!! Chili Garlic Sauce is like a sweet sauce that resembles an “orange chicken” sauce you get at a chinese restaurant. Sriracha is a HOT sauce.. I use sriracha just about every day to spice my food up, but use a chili garlic sauce for more mellow chicken stir fry’s.
Aside from that question/comment, this looks AMAZING and you have successfully made me hungry when i shouldn’t be!! Can’t wait to try this soon!
I should have never looked at this! I LOVE Bang Bang Shrimp, but knowing now that it has mayo in it has ruined it for me! I am absolutely repulsed by mayo, and even though the shrimp taste good, all I will think is “mayo mayo mayo” while I’m eating it. Just that thought is enough to make me never eat it again. Yes, I know I’m completely irrational. :-/
Mayo is just whipped oil with flavorings. Make your own w/ olive oil, lemon juice, seasoning & mustard. Mustard or egg yolk is needed since they contain lecithin which keeps the mayo from separating. Put the juice ( or vinegar ) & seasonings in blender, turn on & slowly add oil. Your own tastes better.
Tried this recipe the other nite and we really enjoyed it. It’s a keeper. ty.
Ok I just started making this and panicked with I realized I had no mayonnaise…. So I decided to throw in a individually packed cup of apple sauce and it was AMAZING!!!
Simply Delicious. This is the best recipe. I will leave the salt out the breading mixture the next time around. The other seasonings and the sauce alone add enough flavor.
Definately 5 Stars!!!!
I will deffinitely be trying these. I am gluten free, but I have found that using mashed potato flakes is the perfect substitute for panko bread crumbs when either frying in oil or sautéing in butter. They crisp up the exact same way!
I found this on Pinterest and just made it because I had everything on hand. This was FABULOUS!!!!!!!! I will be making this again and again and again. Thank you!!
Just tried this for the 1st time tonight & was pleasantly surprised. Tastes just like Bonefish Grill. I don’t have a deep fryer so used a skillet without problems: saved on oil. Would recommend about 1/2 the sauce or more shrimp. Some of it went to waste.
I don’t have a fryer, but a large stock pot. Is that safe, easy, efficient to use for frying these bad boys?
Yep, that’s what I used! :)
Can’t wait to try. I just bought hot sauce and rice vinger. Looking forward to dinner.
This recipe seriously tastes like the restaurant shrimp! I would definitely recommend it. It’s delicious! T
I can’t wait to try these – they make my mouth water just looking at them. Thank you for sharing!
Thank you so much for this recipe! We made them today, and they taste EXACTLY like Bonefish’s Bang Bang Shrimp!