Shrimp Burger Recipe with Lime Slaw

This shrimp burger recipe with garlic and ginger is a complete win in our home. They’re juicy, a bit candy from the shrimp, and excellent with our creamy lime slaw.

We’ve been dreaming up this shrimp burger for some time now, and I’m so completely happy to have the ability to lastly share it with you. The key is uncooked shrimp, egg white, and somewhat cornstarch. The egg white and cornstarch maintain the patties collectively whereas retaining the burgers mild.

I extremely suggest topping your burger with our creamy lime slaw (recipe beneath) and a little bit of spicy mayo, which makes a fantastic burger sauce.

Key Elements

• Shrimp: You actually style the shrimp on this burger recipe, so use shrimp you’re keen on. We notably get pleasure from Patagonian pink shrimp, which cooks as much as be agency and candy. I exploit them for our shrimp salad, and I’m at all times completely happy I did. I additionally largely purchase frozen shrimp, thaw them in a single day within the fridge, after which use them the subsequent day. You can too rapidly thaw them in a bowl below chilly (not heat) working water. They’ll be thawed in a couple of minutes.
• Garlic, Ginger, and Inexperienced Onions: These burgers are impressed by Asian shrimp dishes, so we combine in recent garlic, ginger, and plenty of inexperienced onions. I mince the garlic, finely grate the ginger (although pre-grated frozen ginger works nice), after which mince the inexperienced onion by hand.
• Egg White and Cornstarch: Flour and breadcrumbs overpower the shrimp’s taste, so to bind the combination into patties, we use one egg white and an excellent quantity of cornstarch. It really works like a attraction.
• Salt, Sugar, and Tamari: To season them properly, combine in somewhat salt, sugar, and low-sodium tamari (or use shoyu or soy sauce). You don’t use a lot of any of it, however they make an enormous distinction in taste.
• Burger Sauce: Stick with toasted buns and somewhat plain mayo, or we love our selfmade spicy mayo for these burgers.
• Slaw: These candy shrimp patties pair completely with one thing cool and crunchy, so we put collectively a easy coleslaw to serve with them. It’s cabbage, inexperienced onion (sure, extra!), salt, pepper, lime juice, and mayo. The black pepper actually makes this slaw, so be happy so as to add greater than what we suggest within the recipe beneath. For a mayo-free model, we additionally love this cilantro lime slaw.

Find out how to Make Shrimp Burgers

Tip 1: Getting ready your shrimp. It’s essentially the most hands-on a part of this recipe, however truthfully, it’s not laborious in any respect.

• First, I toss the shrimp with a little bit of salt, let it sit for a minute, then rinse, drain, and pat very dry. I exploit this trick so much, like in our shrimp stir fry. It plumps up the shrimp and makes them style cleaner in the long run.
• Subsequent, I finely mince about three-quarters of the shrimp. You are able to do this by hand or in a meals processor. Then, chop the remaining shrimp somewhat chunkier for some good texture within the patties.

Tip 2: Making the burger combine. Earlier than including your chopped shrimp, stir all of the burger combine elements collectively till easy (salt, sugar, tamari, garlic, ginger, inexperienced onions, egg white, and cornstarch). Then fold within the chopped shrimp.

Tip 3: Refrigerate the burger combine for half-hour. The combination might be sticky and somewhat free, so to assist it agency up a bit and permit the cornstarch time to soak up the moisture, pop it into the fridge for half an hour.

Whereas it chills, you may make your sauce and slaw (each are easy and simply want a fast combine).

Tip 4: Sear the shrimp patties on either side first. To get somewhat shade, type the combination into 4 balls (don’t fear in the event that they’re not excellent or if issues get somewhat sticky). Then, place every ball right into a little bit of oil in a skillet, gently press them into patties, and sear either side till they get somewhat shade.

Tip 5: End within the oven. As soon as either side are golden, I transfer the patties to a baking sheet and allow them to end within the oven for about 10 to 12 minutes, so that they prepare dinner by means of within the center.

Serving Options

These burgers, merely topped with slaw, are glorious all by themselves, however you possibly can at all times add one thing on the facet. Oven-baked French fries or candy potato fries are basic (don’t overlook the fry sauce). They’re additionally nice with sautéed broccoli, garlic ginger spicy edamame, or pickles.

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