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Grilled Hot-and-Sour Shrimp with Watermelon-Watercress Salad

Grilled Hot-and-Sour Shrimp with Watermelon-Watercress Salad

Ingredients

  • 3 tablespoons rice vinegar

  • 2 tablespoons honey

  • 1 tablespoon mustard sauce (2 packets) or any other hot mustard

  • 3 cups bite-size seedless yellow or red watermelon chunks (about 1 1/3 pounds)

  • 2 bunches watercress, coarsely chopped

  • 4 scallions, thinly sliced on an angle

  • 1 small red bell pepper, chopped

  • Salt and pepper

  • 2 tablespoons vegetable oil

  • 1 pound large shrimp, peeled and deveined, tails left on

  • 2 tablespoons duck sauce (3 packets)

  • 1 tablespoon soy sauce (2 packets)

  • 1 teaspoon hot pepper sauce

  • Juice of 1 lime

Directions

In a salad bowl, combine the rice vinegar, honey and mustard. Add the watermelon, watercress, scallions and bell pepper and toss; season with salt and pepper.

In a large skillet, heat the oil, two turns of the pan, over high heat. Add the shrimp and stir fry until pink and firm, about 3 minutes. Remove the shrimp from the heat and stir in the duck sauce, soy sauce, hot pepper sauce and lime juice; toss to coat. Serve on top of the salad.