Spicy Shrimps Paste Dip With Fresh Vegetables

Name: Spicy Shrimps Paste Dip With Fresh Vegetables
Cuisine: South African
Ingredients: 2 tbsp shrimp paste, roasted; 40-50 Thai bird’s eye chilies

Pakprawee @pakprawee

Thailand

Spicy Shrimps Paste Dip, Nam Prik Kapi is the most famous of all the Thai chili sauces, made with fermented shrimp paste, chilies, and lime juice. This recipe is easy to make, and mostly just requires pounding and mixing up all the ingredients.

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Ingredients

2 tbspshrimp paste, roasted
40-50Thai bird’s eye chilies
1 Thai garlic
2–3 shallots
20 pea eggplant (Turkey berry)
1 - 2 tbsp palm sugar
3 – 5 tbsp lime juice

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Steps

1

Flatten the shrimp paste, and then roast it over hot charcoal or roast on the heat pan (easy way I do 😊), just for about a minute on either side. Roasting the shrimp paste is not really about cooking it, but it’s bring out the fragrance and make it better smelling and tasting.
2

Pound garlic, shallots and 40 bird’s eye chilies, not very finely (not big chunks). Add shrimp paste, eggplants and palm sugar, gentle pound. The last step add lime juice, stir to mix well. Mix everything thoroughly, it should be saucy in texture, not too thin, and not too sticky or thick. After the add 10 bird’s eye chilies for garnish.
3

To makes a wonderful condiment to eat with a full meal of meal of vegetables such as cucumber, Thai eggplants, long bean or water morning glory, hot steamed rice, and fried fish.