Dinner · 20 min · Amounts not specified
Coconut lime shrimp
Tropical skillet. Coconut, lime, garlic, shrimp last. Ginger if you have it. Don't boil the coconut into oil.
The sheet · 2 plates · 20 min
easyWhy tonight. Tropical skillet. Coconut, lime, garlic, shrimp last. Ginger if you have it. Don't boil the coconut into oil.
What it needs
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- shrimp
- coconut milk
- lime
- garlic
Good if you have them, fine if you do not: ginger.
Method
- Garlic and ginger soft in a little oil first, then coconut milk brought to the barest simmer.
- Reduce it a few minutes before the shrimp go anywhere near it. Shrimp cook in two minutes and the sauce needs longer than they do.
- Shrimp in, heat low, and pull the pan as soon as they turn opaque.
- Lime off the heat, never in the simmer. Acid boiled into coconut milk dulls, and the whole dish rests on that brightness.
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Published minimums for what is in this
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- Produce prepHow To Mince GarlicAmerica's Test KitchenSmashing and mincing a clove down to something that cooks evenly instead of burning in pieces.Link checked 2026-09-08
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Why each of these is on the list
What the ingredients are actually doing
- shrimp
- Cooks in about two minutes and is ruined in three.
- coconut milk
- Fat that carries chili and spice further than water can, with a sweetness underneath.
- lime
- Sharper and more floral than lemon, and it fades faster — juice it the same hour you use it.
- garlic
- Burns in seconds and turns the whole dish bitter, so it almost never goes in first.
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