Sweet and Sour Shrimp - A super easy and quick recipe for shrimp in a Chinese style sweet and sour sauce, perfect with rice and some stir fried vegetables.

Quick and Easy Sweet and Sour Prawns
This just might be one of the easiest fakeaway dishes you make - heat the sauce, fry the shrimp, add into the sauce and viola its all done. See how quick and easy that is?
I love simple and quick recipes like this, especially when it gets to dinner time after an extremely busy day and I want a dinner ready and on the table in minutes.
What kind of shrimp is best for stir fries?
While tail on or shell on shrimp can look much more aesthetic in a dish, it can be annoying in a saucy type dish when you just want a spoonful with some rice and veggies without having to take off the tail each time you pick up a shrimp.
So for this recipe I opt for some defrosted frozen raw large shrimp with the tail and shell off. Fresh shrimp is totally fine to use too, but I do recommend using raw over cooked shrimp for this dish.

Simple Sweet and Sour Sauce
For the sweet and sour sauce I use just a handful of ingredients for that typical sweet and sour taste.
- Pineapple Juice
- Garlic
- Ginger
- Soy Sauce
- Vinegar
- Cornstarch
- Granulated Sweetener
The pineapple juice adds a nice flavour and sweetness to the sauce with the sweetener and the cornstarch helps to thicken so that it coats the shrimp and is lovely and glossy.
Vegetables for Sweet and Sour Shrimp
For a typical sweet and sour style dish the vegetables are usually added into the pan with the protein. But for this I prefer the shrimp in a nice volume of sauce so instead I cook some veggies to serve on the side.
My favourite vegetables to serve alongside this is some shredded sauteed cabbage and thinly slice carrot sticks. But really go for whatever vegetables you like.
Some other great vegetables are:
- Baby Corn
- Sugar snap peas
- Peppers (any colour)
- Onion
- Mange Tout (snow peas)
- Mushrooms

Sides for Chinese Sweet and Sour Dishes
The most common side to serve alongside a Sweet and Sour dish is rice and plain jasmine is one of my favourites. Super easy to cook and perfect for mopping up all that sauce.
Some of great options are of course are Egg Fried Rice or if you want to reduce the calories Egg Fried Cauliflower Rice.
But there is no reason why you couldn't enjoy this alongside some noodles or my Perfect Oven Baked Chips (Fries).
Some days when I want a really quick meal. I just dump a bag of stir fry veggie mix into the pan with a little spray oil and seasoning and will have that. We get a great mix here that contains cabbage, kale, broccoli stalks and carrots. It might be all vegetables, but it feels like noodles and is filling while being really low in calories.
More Chinese Fakeaway Recipes
Looking for some more Chinese Recipes? Check out some of these:
- Beef Chow Mein
- Spring Roll in a Bowl
- Black Pepper Beef
- Cashew Chicken
- Mongolian Beef
- Chicken Chop Suey
- Salt and Pepper Chicken
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Sweet and Sour Shrimp (Prawns)
Sweet and Sour Shrimp - A super easy and quick recipe for shrimp in a Chinese style sweet and sour sauce, perfect with rice and some stir fried vegetables.
Ingredients
- 500g (17.5oz) of frozen raw large shrimp (prawns) - tails and shell off (defrosted)
- spray oil
- salt and black pepper
- 3 spring onion, chopped
- pinch of toasted sesame seeds
For the sauce:
- 2 teaspoons of grated fresh ginger root
- 2 cloves of garlic, minced
- 1 cup (240ml) of pineapple juice
- ⅓ cup (80ml) of water
- 2 tablespoons of soy sauce
- 2 tablespoons of tomato paste (puree)
- 2 tablespoon of brown granulated sweetener (I use Erythritol)
- 1 tablespoon of cornstarch
Instructions
- Add the sauce ingredients to a bowl and whisk to combine.
- Spray frying pan or work over a medium-high heat with some spray oil
- Once hot, add the shrimp and fry on both sides (2-3 minutes) just until they turn pink and then remove and set aside.
- Add in the sauce ingredients to the pan and heat until it thickens
- Add back in the shrimp and continue to simmer until shrimp is heated through
- Sprinkle with some chopped spring onion and a pinch of toasted sesame seeds.
- Serve with your choice of sides.
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Nutrition Information
Yield 4 Serving Size 1 SERVINGAmount Per Serving Calories 157Total Fat 0.7gSaturated Fat 0gTrans Fat 0gUnsaturated Fat 3gCholesterol 168mgSodium 891mgCarbohydrates 14.3gFiber 2.1gSugar 9gProtein 22.6g
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Sheila Sears says
Please is this using raw or cooked prawns? Thank you.
Shevy (Slimming Eats) says
Hi Sheila - the prawns I used where raw, but if you only have cooked, those are fine too, just add right at the end until heated through.
Emily Billings says
Hi Steve
Is it 3 or 4 tbs of sukrin gold or 3 quarters of a tbs? Not sure what the 3/4 actually means as could be either?! Please clarify!
Thanks
Emily
Shevy (Slimming Eats) says
it means 3 quarters of a tablespoon 🙂