What I remember from childhood are the amazingly MASSIVE stone grinders of (south) Indian design which are easily 20-25 times the mass of the largest Thai mortar and pestles. OK, but make sure to pound just a little bit if it and mix it in, in order to get the right consistency (should feel SMASHED) and so the essential oils are released. So when my friend Chin took me to Nakhon Pathom with the promise of a good meal and a cooking class, you could color me curious. I was thinking about this because, well, there are lots of mealtime etiquette thingies that even I, with all the many many meals that I have eaten, have no clue about. My glasses are still splattered with bits of paste, but I am content. That’s really realistic. My dining companions snorted in my face. Nam Prik Hed est un champignon haché cuit à la vapeur dans une sauce épicée, un piment rouge pilonné, un oignon rouge et de l'ail, puis assaisonnez avec de la sauce au poisson, au sucre et au jus de citron, servi avec n'importe quel type de riz. Oh no! Filed under Asia, Bangkok, chili dip, food, restaurant, Thailand. So, I made this, as in, I just closed my fork and spoon and then sat my arse down in front of the laptop to tell you that I made it and ate it. It smelled bad too. – 2 hed fang (large straw mushrooms), cut up, – 4 red bird’s eye chilies and 4 green bird’s eye chilies, – 1 green, 1 orange, and 2 red prik chee fah (chili peppers). Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. I can still feel the stone and regret the events that have separated us permanently. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. It is not lifted or pounded, and yet it achieves the very same effect. Oh, that went bad. Labour intensive but it looks delicious . 15 mins Ingredients. À propos de ce plat Dans la culture locale - Pour tous les jours Who cares about these so-called “customers”? A good Nam Prik is like Durian, or Tua Now, or a well aged cheese, they smell awful, but taste divine. where Julia Roberts (do you know who she is?) Tough girl i am ...I love to cook in my open small kitchen with one old style stove ,love to cook with charcoal and old style equipments ,love classic good food :),i'm from Chiangmai,Thailand ..cooking tasty Italian dishes for strangers in the restaurant..cooking great Thai food for family ..cook for myself hardcore unseen Thai dish haha..loaded sense of humor person and friendly ,sure generous :), Copyright © Cookpad Inc. All Rights Reserved. It’s also so pretty and deceptively obliging: that little dollop, that big taste. Thanks Chow …. Shitake Chilli Paste / Nam Prik Hed Delicious mushroom spicy dip :hungry another vegetarian option :excited. So does that raw tamarind pod, which one can manipulate to various textural levels, and we do, creating chutneys, with multiple textures in the same dish and taking out the coarser and leaving in the rest for more smooth treatment. That is the moment when I figured out this movie was complete horseshit. “Steady on!” they basically said, in Thai. She kept her delightful nam prik in the fridge and one day she asked her farang husband, What happened to my food? And very believable! Thais may seem all smiley and happy-g0-lucky, but that is because they are getting all their aggressions out on their food. Is he really that attached to the prix fixe menu? Add “dressing” to taste. they remind me of the time I was in culinary school, where I was bad and not good and to which I was generally unsuited, and b.) Change ). Just letting you know we’ve nominated you for the versatile blogger award. Jul 17, 2020 - Shitake Chilli Paste / Nam Prik Hed . Nam Prik Hed  (makes 4 servings) – 2  hed fang  (large straw mushrooms), cut up – 4 red bird’s eye chilies and 4 green bird’s eye chilies – 1 green, 1 orange, and 2 red  prik chee  fah  (chili peppers) “That’s is the only thing Thais do properly”. ( Log Out /  These gigantic creatures are huge chunks of square granite or some metamorphic rock, and in their center is carved a round well, just like a Thai device. Hello! Post was not sent - check your email addresses! or Bill Clinton (you, yum!) I love nam prik. Change ), You are commenting using your Google account. we had found that site, we passed on the fish sambos yesterday because we had already eaten … and we’re not giving up – some great food will be found! This woman met Richard Gere the night before while wearing a tie-dyed dinner napkin and Woody Harrelson’s toupee from “True Detective”, and now he is taking her to a French restaurant with waiters and everything. Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window), Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window), Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window), Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window), Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window), Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window), Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window), http://arecipeforgluttony.wordpress.com/2014/04/07/versatile-blogger-awards/. Delicious mushroom spicy dip :hungry another vegetarian option :excited, Roast on the pan on low heat until all cook,you will know it cook by the color will be darker, Add chopped coriander ,fishsauce or soy sauce,and lime juice, Transfer to cucumber boat or dip bowl ,serve with favorite fresh or boil vegetables ,or optional tradition thai we serve with rice,fried pork or chicken ,spicy sausage boil eggs :). Check out istanbuleats.com for good recommendations! Did you make this recipe? Sticking to the Northern dishes as advised, we ordered the Northern… In 1 tsp oil, fry garlic, shallots and sliced chilies in hot wok with mushroom pieces until “dry”, about 5 minutes. ( Log Out /  The practiced orbital motion and the rhythmic changing of the angles is a joyful activity, a sort of challenge one subconsciously adopts towards the edible object, however childish that may sound, and a race to pulverize and unequivocally subjugate it. is having dinner at a fancy restaurant with Richard Gere (my mom’s boyfriend). In fact, nam prik was such a go-to dish in Thailand that husbands were once said to choose their wives on the sound their mortars and pestles made when pounding out a particular dip (if this were the case today, I can confidently say I would never get married). Nam-prik-kha is a rather dry chili dipping sauce containing galangal as a main ingredient. Share a picture of your creation! “Thais are very fastidious about their manners while eating,” said one person, trying to be nice. A tip or two: when you are pounding the shit out of that chili mixture, make sure you do so with intent and malice. (Again, horseshit). It’s just that there are so few dishes that are as immediate — spicy, tart, funky in that fermented, garbage-y, wrong-side-of-garlic sense that Thai food is known for — as this one. Even dried turmeric rhizomes, soaked in water, the most recalcitrant objects to grind into a smooth paste, become so in a practiced hand. Chutneys with Ridge Gourd Skin, chutney with various fried and roasted hard dals like chickpea, ginger, and coconut, [chutney in the Tamil sense], and most of all, the pastes of rice and split legumes are achieved in this rotary food processor, without the use of water. Found this one too – http://sirkecirestaurants.com – looks interesting, and the couple are marrying today and heading to Bangkok for their honeymoon! I used to wonder at this overkill until I learned the reason behind the mass and the shape. Haha, that’s funny. I threw that out.” . Thanks for reading Lani! Pretend you are Mike Tyson in the ring. My aunt told a really funny story about this pungent and dirty looking paste. Whatever you put in the well, you grind by manipulating the angle of inclination, and rotating the “pestle” in an orbital manner. Kanya Chiang Mai, Thailand. ( Log Out /  Worth it! There is a scene in the movie “Pretty Woman” (have you ever heard of it?) Always surrounded by its various little accomplices, all chosen to offset whatever chili dip you’ve decided to guzzle on that particular day: sweet silky tamarind (macaam), sharp peppery roasted banana pepper (nam prik num), the ubiquitous, funkier-than-George-Clinton shrimp paste (gapi), a pillar of the standard Thai meal. Really, though, why cook and then not eat? That will be excellent! I don’t like to listen for long enough to follow directions (which may explain a. And then this douchecanoe goes and orders the escargots, even though his date has no freaking clue how to use her cutlery and one of the dinner companions (the “hothead” grandson who plays polo) has clearly cottoned on to Richard Gere’s game and ordered a dinner salad. If you have a question about this recipe, ask it here to get a reply from the cookpad community. Let’s not discuss cooking school ever again.) and he replied, after they figured out what she was talking about, “Oh that thing? Oh, but wait. Where the hell have have I been! Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. Or, if you are going the vegetarian route, substitute the fish sauce for light soy sauce and salt. are pesky and truculent-seeming, and seem to call out for grinding down. We Have Almost Everything on eBay. It is really good combination eating with grilled beef, sticky rice and fresh vegetable. I am so happy that you made it, and that it worked. But at Oo Khao Oo Pla (a take on the Thai saying “Nai nam mee pla, nai na mee khao” or “There is fish in the water, there is rice in the fields” aka Thailand is a lucky land of bounty), the friendly chef is happy enough to chat with me as she gives her hand-picked mushrooms a quick stir-fry with sugar and garlic in the wok, and garnishes her thom kloang pla salid (sour soup with smoked dried fish) with freshly plucked tamarind leaves from the tree out back. Main > Recipe > Recipe List > Mixed Mushrooms Paste (Nam Prik Hed Ruam) Search Recipe. You’ll be the first to know! The pestle is an immense, carefully crafted thing, or used to be, many decades ago, since we received ours from the previous generation, and that one also must have been another couple of generations old by then! And – as soon as the Thai Troubles resolve we will be back – can’t wait to eat divine Thai – so yummy and so accessible! 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