Recipe - Nam Prik For Vegetables

4 ounce 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@juno.com (Caroline R McBride) on Jul 17, 1997