Recipe - Nam Prik For Raw Vegetables (Thai Spice)

4 Dried red chilies
6 Dried shrimp
A small piece of trassi
2 Cloves garlic
30 ml (2 tbsp) fish sauce
1 tablespoon Soft brown sugar
Juice of 1 lime

Remove the seeds from the chilies and chop. Pound or process them with the
dried shrimp. Heat the trassi. Crumble it and pound with the garlic, then
combine all the ingredients except the lime juice and process. Add the lime
juice, a little at a time, so that the sauce remains fairly thick. Store in
the refrigerator.

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