Recipe: The perfect quick dish to make when you have a bunch of leftover frozen shrimp! Serve it with rice and you will feel like you are at Chinatown in Yokohama, Japan!

Number of steps:  5 steps
Time taken: 10 to 15 minutes

About This Dish:
To begin, let me start by telling you that after making this dish and having it for dinner, I was surprised and very impressed about myself! It truly was a great accomplishment and I would like to share this recipe with you. Shrimp with chili sauce is a very popular dish in Chinatown (in Japan). This recipe aims to replicate that dish people eat in Yokohama's Chinatown. The garlic, ginger, sesame oil and ketchup are one of the main ingredients which come into play. It's simple (trust me) so I hope you try it out and enjoy it as much as I did. 

What You Need:
(Makes ~2 servings)

• ~20 shrimps (defrosted or fresh, up to you)
• Finely chopped garlic (approximately 1 tbsp)
• (Optional) Finely chopped green onion (as much as you like)
• 1 tbsp Japanese sake
• 1/2 tbsp regular oil
• 1/2 tbsp sesame oil
  

Marinade

• 1 tbsp Japanese sake
• 1 tsp grated ginger
• 1 tsp grated garlic
• Pinch of salt

Chili Sauce

• 2 tbsp tomato ketchup
• 1 tbsp each of sugar, starch (I used potato starch) and Japanese soy sauce
• 2 tbsp water
• Pinch of salt

1. Soak the shrimp (defrosted/fresh) in the marinade (sake, grated ginger, grated garlic, salt) for a couple of minutes.

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4. Add the chili sauce and cook until the sauce thickens.

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2. Start making the chili sauce. Simply mix the ingredients listed above under "Chili Sauce": ketchup, sugar, starch, soy sauce, water and salt. 

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5. Finally, add the sesame oil at the very end right before serving! 

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3. Heat up some oil on a MEDIUM heat pan, throw in the marinated shrimp. Once the shrimp seems cooked, add the chopped garlic, green onion (if you have any) and sake in order.

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