Bang Bang Shrimp: your favorite Asian-fusion appetizer turned into a delicious meal. Pan-seared shrimp tossed in a quick sweet creamy chili sauce and garnished with sesame seeds and scallions; this shrimp pairs beautifully in a bowl with rice and a veggie.
What you’ll need to make bang bang shrimp
Here is the ingredient list for this recipe:
- raw shrimp
- cornstarch
- sweet ginger sesame sauce
- light mayo
- sour cream
- sriracha
- lime juice
- sesame seeds and scallions for garnish
I often get questions about the sweet ginger sesame sauce I use for this recipe. Here is a close-up photo of the bottle. This can be found in most supermarkets in the international food aisle. 
This sauce is so delicious. I only use 1 tablespoon for this recipe, and its more than enough to flavor the entire dish. It gives this dish such delicious depth of flavor.
How to prep the shrimp
If you’ve never worked with shrimp before, it can feel intimidating; but I promise you, it’s so easy to cook. You can purchase shrimp fresh from the seafood counter, or you can purchase frozen shrimp in a bag. I like to keep a bag of frozen shrimp in my freezer at all times. It ensures I have a good protein option on hand for quick meals. If you purchase shrimp from the seafood counter, chances are they will be cleaned, shelled and deveined. If they aren’t cleaned, you can ask for them to be. There are two veins on each shrimp (these are the digestive tract of the shrimp). Some seafood counters will remove one, but not both. This is personal preference. I like to remove both veins. On the flip side, if you purchase frozen shrimp in a bag, you’ll likely have to shell, clean and devein them yourself. It’s very simple to do, but if you’ve never done it before, here is a quick how-to article: How to Clean Shrimp
How to cook the shrimp
Once the shrimp is cleaned, rinse them and then pat them dry before you prepare to cook them. This is important in order to ensure all moisture is removed from the shrimp. If the shrimp have moisture on them, they won’t get crispy on the outside. Next, add the cornstarch to the shrimp in the bowl and toss to coat. The corn starch will create a lightly crispy outside, while the shrimp remain tender on the inside. Once the shrimp is coated, add them to a frying pan that has been sprayed with cooking spray.
Cook the shrimp over medium high heat. They only need a couple of minutes on each side. To determine if the shrimp is cooked, you are looking for the shrimp to turn pink and opaque. They should be firm to the touch and curl up. For this particular dish, you are also looking for the outside to appear golden and crispy. This adds a nice textural element to the dish.
Once the shrimp are cooked, remove them from the pan. In the meantime, prepare the easiest sauce ever.
Making the Bang Bang Sauce
The sauce for this dish couldn’t be simpler, mostly because it involves zero cooking. All you need to do is combine the sweet ginger sesame sauce, mayo, sour cream, lime juice, and sriracha in a small bowl. Whisk the ingredients together thoroughly, and your sauce will resemble something like this.
After the sauce is mixed, toss the cooked shrimp in the sauce and set aside until your other components are ready to assemble. 
Building a bang bang shrimp bowl
I’ve made this dish with a variety of side dishes, but always in bowl format. The bang bang sauce is perfect to mix with rice, vegetables and greens. Prepare these items as your shrimp cooks, and dinner will be ready in under 20 minutes. You can really use anything you have on hand; iceberg lettuce works well here, as do green beans. I always serve mine over white rice, and usually add sliced avocado for a sushi-vibe. This time, I used shredded red cabbage as my base. I simply tossed the cabbage with some vinegar and soy sauce, unmeasured. Just enough to wet the cabbage and give it some flavor. 
For the rice, I take a shortcut and typically use pre-cooked frozen white rice. Trader Joes sells a great one. For the green beans, I like to roast them with sesame oil and sesame seeds. For my roasted green bean recipe, click here. The beauty of this recipe is you can really tailor your side dishes to suit your needs; if you want to go low-carb, you can sub in cauliflower rice instead of white rice. You can serve the shrimp over a salad, or even in tacos for something different. 
If you enjoyed this recipe, check out my panko breaded shrimp bowl.
Bang Bang Shrimp
Equipment
- frying pan
Ingredients
- 1 lb raw shrimp, peeled, deveined
- 1 T cornstarch
- 1 T sweet ginger sesame sauce
- 2 T light mayo
- 1 T sour cream
- 1 tsp sriracha, to taste
- Splash of lime juice
- Sesame seeds and chopped scallions for garnish
Instructions
- Pat the shrimp dry and toss in the corn starch.
- Heat a frying pan over medium-high heat and spray with cooking spray.
- Cook the shrimp on both sides until a crust has formed and they are cooked through.
- Combine all of the other ingredients to form the bang-bang sauce, and toss the cooked shrimp in the sauce.
- Top with sesame seeds and scallions.
Notes
Nutrition
How-To Video
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My favorite easy, weeknight meal!
This is honestly one of my most favorite recipes of all time!!!!
Love it – so good and easy to make.
My husband and I LOVE this recipe. It comes together quickly and the flavors are perfection.
Delicious!
this is one of my go to appetizers to order out but this version is my new favorite! so easy to make and so versatile. we made bowls, wraps, and salads it was so nice to make a big batch and use it for lunches for the week!
Pretty much my favorite recipe ever! I Seriously make this like every other week 🙂
Absolutely delicious and so simple to make, especially on weeknights!
So easy and so good! I have made it multiple times and it’s a hit every time!
I have never been a seafood person, but boy do I love this dish! The bang bang sauce, plus the lightly breaded/coated shrimp is so so good!
Omg I made this recipe for my husband and I and we are both obsessed! It’s truly like eating bang bang shrimp from a restaurant. So tasty! What a great way to enjoy without the guilt! Will be adding it into our rotation for sure.
Made this tonight for the 3rd or 4th time. So delicious and so easy, even for someone like me that doesn’t like to cook.
So delicious!!!!
Such an easy low point meal to always have the ingredients on hand! This is my go-to when I don’t know what to make for dinner.
Bang bang shrimp is one of my favorite dishes to get at a restaurant and Stephanie’s recipe is equally delicious. I love this recipe and love that it’s so point friendly!
One of my fave recipes! So easy, but packed with so much flavor.
Hi. This looks amazing and I’m going to make it. I’m assumed the points value you give is just for the shrimp..is that correct? Thanks!! Love your recipes!!
This was absolutely delicious! Even my picky 4 year old loved it!
Just made these for meal prep but I want to eat them all now. The sauce is incredible!!
Just made this last night! Such a delicious meal! Paired it with white rice and string beans and put it over spring greens! The sauce is soo tasty!
I made this last night and it was to die for! There is a local bar by me that makes a bang bang shrimp wrap that I love but it’s so unhealthy. I decided to recreate that recipe by putting Steph’s bang bang shrimp into a wrap with lettuce, carrots, and tomatoes and it was SO GOOD!
Plus, this comes together so fast! It’s a perfect weeknight meal!
I love this shrimp recipe – tastes so good!
This recipe is a favorite in our house! We have it a couple times per month and is great for meal prep! My husband asks for it often. The tangy spicy sauce is KILLER
I made this and added chicken. Thank you so much!!!
I’d give it 10 stars if I could. This doesn’t taste lightened up at all and really filled the void of bang bang shrimp in my life. My fiancé who hates all “diet” food even approved.
Just made this tonight and it was such a hit! The corn starch is a game changer for getting the shrimp crispy!
Just made this for my family and they DEVOURED it! So easy & so good.
a staple in my house all her recipes r so easy and amazing her Instagram page is literally my cookbook!
So easy and delicious!
Made this for dinner tonight and it was a hit! So delicious!!
Made this dish with the sides as pictured above and it was excellent. I mixed cauliflower rice in with regular rice and my family loved it. Will certainly make again !
I made these last week and ate them in a bowl with rice and edamame. It was so good that I made them again this week but had them as tacos on corn tortillas with red cabbage and avocado. The flavor is out of this world!! I’d give this 10 stars if I could!
Love this recipe so much! It tastes like something you would buy from a restaurant!
Better than bonefish grills bang bang shrimp and so easy!
The best!! Like omg I want to make it again tomorrow. The best macros and so filling. Thank you, Steph!!
Love this recipe. I changed the sauce a bit by removing the sour cream but adding a bit of ground chili paste and Chinese mustard. I also slice scallions on top. Yum!!!
Literally just threw this together. The hardest part was cleaning the shrimp. So easy to make. It is absolutely delicious! I didn’t have sriracha, I used Frank’s redhot. I am definitely making this again! Thank you Steph!!
Do you have a substitution idea for the Sweet Ginger Sesame sauce? My grocery store doesn’t have it. Thanks!
Amazing! My husband actually likes this better than the restaurant version. Thank you!
So good! It’s one of my faves and my husband’s too. The flavors are wonderful. We paired it with red cabbage, rice avocado and green beans.
So good. Even my 9 yr old who doesn’t like shrimp liked it!
So easy and delicious!
This is delicious, quick, and easy!
10/10 this recipe is my FAVORITE!!! I’ve made it a few times and it’s BOMB!!!!! The sauce is perfection!
This is SO good! I couldn’t find the sweet ginger sauce she uses so I got a sweet chili sauce and it tasted amazing. I paired it with the roasted green beans, a rainbow slaw prepared like her cabbage above and some steamed cauliflower rice. I seasoned the rice with ground ginger, garlic powder, a little salt and 1/4 tsp of toasted sesame oil and OMG. Such a great recipe! It was a hit! And SO easy to make!
Delicious and super easy!
Holy moly this was delish!!! Felt like I was eating takeout from a restaurant. Thank you for taking the time to make sure great low calorie options for the meals I miss.
It’s so easy to make and so delicious! We aren’t a super spicy family, so I did half a teaspoon of the sriracha and that was perfect. A must try- you won’t be disappointed.
This was delicious! A good change up and a real crowd pleaser!
Absolutely delicious!! And so easy. Thanks for all your delicious recipes, Steph!
This recipe is so so good and has become a staple in our home. Easy to make and delicious!
Make this. Seriously. Run, fast. Make it. You will not regret it! It comes together so quickly and tastes like the best version of takeout. I paired mine with white rice, cucumber, avocado, and edamame – seriously delicious!
Simple and yummy! It’s hard to believe it is so low on points. I paired it with rice and veggies and had a very filling delicious meal for only 8 WW points. Amazing! Definitely on repeat at our house.
Another great recipe! My husband said it was “banging” 🙂 Can’t wait to make it again!
This was a hit and very easy! I only had regular mayo so to save some points I subbed out one tablespoon of mayo for Greek yogurt.
Love this! I make this often as lunch prep. I usually keep the sauce on the side and dip.
One of my all time favorite recipes from Steph. Delicious, simple, and filling.
The Bang Bang shrimp is awesome! It has become a regular meal in this house. I double the recipe for the sauce because my family loves extra sauce on everything. I serve over rice or thin pasta (like angel hair). My teenage son requests it several times a week!
Absolutely delicious! I felt like I was at a restaurant and was surprised I made it myself!
LOVE this meal! So different to add to the meal rotation & really flavorful! We all loved it! I doubled the suave the next time I made it tho, as we just prefer it “saucier”.
I could eat this all the time. Love this flavor. I serve with rice cabbage and avocado like the picture and its very filling
Three teenage boys request this on a weekly basis! It’s amazing ….
I made this last night and it came together in no time at all! I used the red Argentinian shrimp from Trader Joes and non fat greek yogurt because I didn’t have sour cream on hand – and it was just delicious! Thank you Steph for creating such delicious, healthy recipes!!
We make this weekly in our house, it is so unbelievably easy and delicious. My husband and son love it just as much as I do.
This was so very good!!! I didn’t use the sriracha because I didn’t have it but also can’t do very spicy anyway and it was still incredibly good and SO EASY!!! I had these on my list to make but the night I decided to make them, I chose this because it was too easy….very happy I did! Will be making these on a regular basis!! Thank you Steph!
So delicious and easy! I should have doubled the recipe. Paired well with the green beans
So easy and delicious!
I’ve made this recipe SOOO many times. Love it! Appetizer or main dish, it bang bang DELICIOUS!
Thanks Steph ‼️
Fabulous! I will definitely be making this more often😍
It is so easy and delicious!
Amazing!
Comes together so quickly
I made this last night and it was the easiest/best thing ever! I work late on Wednesdays, so this will for sure be a go to.
Loved this! I’ve never made a creamy sauce like this for shrimp and I will now work it in regularly. I used a hoisin sauce I had open, and it worked just the same. This meal is so versatile, we did broccoli instead of green beans. I also would have never done cabbage but once all mixed together it was great.
This was SOOOO good and easy to make. It will definitely be one that I will make in the future!!
This is incredible! Game changer!!
I’ve made this dish a few times and it’s yummy!
Made this as an appetizer tonight and it was awesome! I definitely had some issues getting the shrimp crispy (but I think it was my stove honestly) so I think next time I will try harder to make it crispy but the sauce was awesome. I ordered the sesame ginger sauce on amazon since I couldn’t find it in any store near me!
Made this for dinner tonight for the second time and it is so delicious and easy! Threw in some rice and leftover broccoli. Thanks Steph!!
This is my favorite recipe. I have frozen shrimp on hand at all times and use this recipe to make myself a quick lunch when I don’t have anything prepared.
Where do I find the Sweet Ginger Sesame Sauce?! I’ve been wanting to make this but cannot find that sauce anywhere in MN!
I was wondering if you could substitute Mayo? My husband will not touch Mayo. Think sour cream or Greek yogurt would work?
Delicious!!!!!
Just made this for dinner tonight. So simple and so delicious! The sauce is perfection. Add any different veggies, or even edamame. This will be a regular in our dinner rotation.
I have to say I have been following Steph for about 2 years on Instagram and this is one of her recipes I was hesitant to make. I wasn’t sure I would like it. Well I’m so sorry I just made it for the first time and oh wow it is Amazingly delicious 🤤!!! Like nothing I have ever had before. I wasn’t able to find the sweet ginger sesame sauce so I used sweet chili sauce and put some ginger in it. Turned out great!
This was super easy to make and very delicious. It is also not as heavy as the Cheesecake Factory one, and a fraction of the calories. Will be making this again. Thanks Steph!!
I make this a couple times a month, either with grilled chicken, shrimp or frozen lightly breaded chicken. It’s so quick and easy to make and tastes amazing!
Delicious!!
Loved it!!!
I made this for the first time today and it was amazing!! I love bang bang shrimp and this is as good as the kind you get in a restaurant!
Delicious and great for summer cooking
This is so yummy! I was literally licking the sauce off my plate!
I highly recommend for everyone to make this not only is it super delicious. It’s also very easy to make!
Made this tonight for my hubby and I and we both loved it so much! Very filling and so delicious. We had it over cauliflower rice and it was great!
This is yummy. I’m going to serve it with the Trader Joes fried rice! 💜
Super easy and delicious. The perfect week night meal. Avocado is a must with this!
Is there any other sauce anything like the tsang’s sweet sesame ginger??!! I feel like its been discontinued:(
At 6pm I still had nothing planned for dinner. Found this recipe and happened to have everything on hand. Quick, so easy, and delicious! Thanks Steph!