astray recipes: Nam prik for vegetables

Categories: Spice; Thai
Yield: 1 Servings

Measure	Ingredient
4 ounces	Unripe fruit (such as green mangoes or gooseberries)
6	Dried red chilies
1 small	Piece of trassi*
3	Cloves garlic
1	Onion
1 tablespoon	Fish stock
1 tablespoon	Brown sugar
	Lime juice

The following spice mixtures are just samples of how to make each mixture.

There are many many varieties of each mixture and the below recipes can be modified to fit individual tastes. Nam Priks are a relish like mixuture of spices and can be store for a week or so in a tightly sealed jar in the refrigerator.

Chop unripe fruit. Remove seeds from chilies and chop. Wrap trassi in foil and grill until it darkens. Pound with wother ingredients adding enough lime juice to dilute.

*trassi is a firm paste made of rotting shrimp it is also sold under the name blachan Posted to TNT - Prodigy's Recipe Exchange Newsletter by crmcbride@... (Caroline R McBride) on Jul 17, 1997

nam prik for vegetables