Recipe: Nam Prik for Cooked Vegetables (Thai Spice)
For 1 Persons
Category: Mixes and s, Oriental /
125 g (4 oz) unripe fruit, such as
-green mango, gooseberries,
-tart plums or grapes
6 Dried red chilies
A small piece of trassi
3 Cloves garlic
1 Onion
5 ml (1 tsp) fish sauce
1 tb Soft brown sugar
Lime juice
Chop the unripe fruit. Remove the seeds from the chilies and chop. Wrap the
trassi in foil and grill until it darkens, or cook in a preheated oven at
350 degrees for a few minutes. Then, either crumble and pound, or process
it with the other ingredients, adding lime juice to dilute and to taste.
Store in a jar in the refrigerator for a few days.
Source: Jill Norman "The Complete Book of Spices" Viking Studio Books, 1991
ISBN 0-670-83437-8 The book is lavishly illustrated with full color
photographs of the herbs and spices- whole, mixed, ground.
Recipe by: Jill Norman * Web File 4/97 Posted to MC-Recipe Digest V1 #631
by "Mary Spyridakis"
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