Thai
Nam Phrik Kapi (Shrimp Paste Chili Relish)
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Nam Phrik Kapi (Shrimp Paste Chili Relish) is Thai home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre and the condiment. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
The quantities follow this count.
How to cook it
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Wrap the shrimp paste in foil and roast it in a dry pan or under a broiler for 2 minutes on each side until fragrant.
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Pound the chilies and garlic together in a mortar until broken down into a rough paste.
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Add the roasted shrimp paste and pound until combined.
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Season with the palm sugar, lime juice and fish sauce, pounding and tasting to balance salty, sour and hot.
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Fold in the pea eggplant, bruising it lightly so it releases a little of its bitterness into the relish.
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Serve at room temperature with the vegetable plate and a piece of fried fish, taking it by the spoonful over rice.
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Serve it with
A Thai dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Nam Phrik Kapi (Shrimp Paste Chili Relish), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The cooked vegetable
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Something to sip
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What it is eaten with
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Nam Phrik Kapi (Shrimp Paste Chili Relish) carries shellfish and fish. It is free of the remaining 8 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | No | |
| Gluten | No | |
| Shellfish | Yes | Ajat (Cucumber Relish) |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | Yes | Ajat (Cucumber Relish) |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Estimated, per serving
- Calories
- 40 kcal
- Protein
- 1 g
- Carbs
- 7 g
- Fat
- 1 g
- Fiber
- 1 g
- Sugar
- 4 g
- Sodium
- 600 mg
- Saturated fat
- 0 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Nam Phrik Kapi (Shrimp Paste Chili Relish) takes about 15 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
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