Recipes Ginger Shrimp with Sweet-Spicy Thai Dipping Sauce 4.0 (4,803) Add your rating & review More Amazing Shrimp Recipes By Grace Parisi Updated on November 16, 2015 Print Rate It Share Share Tweet Pin Email Photo: © William Meppem Yield: 10 Ingredients 1/2 cup thinly sliced ginger (2 1/2 ounces), lightly crushed with the side of a knife blade 1/2 cup rice vinegar 1/4 cup sugar 6 dried red chiles, broken into several pieces 2 pounds large shrimp, shelled and deveined 4 cups small ice cubes 1/2 cup sweet Thai chili sauce 3 tablespoons fresh lime juice 2 tablespoons ketchup 1 1/2 teaspoons Asian fish sauce Celery sticks and cucumber spears, for serving Directions In a small saucepan, combine the ginger with the vinegar, sugar and chiles. Bring to a boil, stirring to dissolve the sugar. Transfer to a large bowl; let cool. In a large pot of boiling salted water, simmer the shrimp until pink and cooked through, about 2 minutes. Drain the shrimp and add them to the ginger mixture. Stir in the ice cubes and refrigerate for at least 4 hours or overnight. Drain the shrimp and pat dry. Discard the ginger and chiles. In a small bowl, mix the Thai chili sauce with the lime juice, ketchup and fish sauce. Refrigerate until chilled. Arrange the shrimp on a platter with the celery sticks and cucumber spears and serve with the sauce. Make Ahead The marinating shrimp and the dipping sauce can be refrigerated separately overnight. Rate it Print