I Reverse Engineered Panda Express Honey Walnut Shrimp
Every Panda Express honey walnut shrimp copycat I found uses mayonnaise, sweetened condensed milk, and lemon juice in the sauce. None of those ingredients are on the actual Panda Express ingredient list. If you've made one of those recipes and it tasted off, this is why. I tracked down the official ingredient list and found the sauce is made with evaporated milk, two acids, and an ingredient from Cantonese banquet cooking that no published recipe uses. And the sauce is actually the simplest part. The walnuts go through four separate processes that most recipes compress into one, and the batter has eight components with a freeze-then-refry technique that Panda actually uses in their stores.
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Timestamps:
0:00 Panda Express honey walnut shrimp
0:28 Why every online recipe gets the sauce wrong
1:28 Sugar ratio and malic acid
2:09 The missing ingredient no recipe uses
3:21 Making the honey walnut sauce
4:12 Decoding the 8-component batter
6:41 Par-frying the shrimp
7:56 Why the freeze step matters
8:30 The 4-step candied walnut process
12:05 Second fry from frozen
12:56 Flame-on / flame-off wok technique and final cooking
13:49 History of honey walnut shrimp
14:26 Honey walnut shrimp taste test
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Special thanks:
redgroupclan - for the recipe help