Recipe - Nam Prik For Cooked Vegetables (Thai Spice)

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 tablespoon 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 0670834378 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 MCRecipe Digest V1 #631
by "Mary Spyridakis" MSpork@msn.com on Jun 2, 97