today on hot thai kitchen we are making the ultimate seafood dipping sauce Sawaddee ka welcome to hot
Thai kitchen today I'm going to teach you a super easy recipe that might just forever change the way
you eat your seafood we're gonna make something called nam jim seafood and nam jim means dipping
sauce and seafood means well seafood so this dipping sauce is gonna be the most epic thing you
eat with seafood whether it's crap lobster mussels anything pretty much and you can forget drawing
butter and mignonette let's see if you agree with me so let's take a look at our ingredients
okay so this is very simple I like to do it in a mortar and pestle but you can do this also in a
blender you're making a large amount so basically just go in first with the garlic and the chillies
there and then just pound it into a paste so you don't get II don't get any surprise chili
chunks now once it's sort of a rough paste kind of like this I'm going to add my cilantro stems
actually I'm going to add my palm sugar first because I want to pound it so it's got a chance
to dissolve and the moisture from the chilies and the garlic will help dissolve the palm sugar now
when the sugar looks like it's mostly dissolved okay we're going to go in with our cilantro stems
and we're using so I pre-chopped them up using cilantro stems because the color isn't so dark
and it'll keep the the dip a nicer color I know so the leaves tend to they're not actually as
fragrant as the stem is believe it or not so say the leaf so when the leaves are required and they
also turn dark after they've been pounded so this keeps things nice you can also use
cilantro roots if you have them they'll have the same effect I just figure it stems why not
you never use stems the foursomes okay so once all that is smushed up I'm gonna go in with our
fish sauce and lime juice and I call for three tablespoons because that's about how much lime
juice is in a lime so you know it's an easy number to work with so just use an entire lime
and now we're just going to give it a stir I'm going to grab a spoon and that's it believe it
or not that is the seafood dipping sauce if you've been to Thailand and Thai restaurants
and you order steamed seafood or something seafood related you may have had it and it's
really good on anything even non seafood things and so notice I only made this much which I know
is not a lot but you don't need a lot this stuff is really potent and you don't want to have more
than you need because everything tastes a lot fresher when it is just freshly made so let me
show you how awesome this really is so I've got this plate of beautifully steamed fresh seafood
here and since I'm the only one eating it I'm just going to go ahead and dip into this bowl
so the flavour should lead with sour followed by salty and the sweet is just barely there because
seafood generally have natural sweetness in them you just wanting to round off the sharp edges of
the acidity and the saltiness I mean this is so good what I've also done is skewer shrimp and then
use a pastry brush and brush this whole thing onto the shrimp skewer it's so awesome and so
let me know how this goes feel free to adjust of the proportion add more cilantro add more garlic
do with this whatever you want sort of the base recipe you can start with and play with and let
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