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| | Roasted Chilli Paste |
 | | In this paste, a ground-up mixture of roasted and fried ingredients, including plenty of dried red hot chillies, dried shrimp or dried fish, shrimp paste, garlic and shallots, is seasoned with fish sauce, tamarind and palm sugar and cooked together in oil into a thick, well-blended paste with a very dark, burnt red color. |
 | | Against a fragrant backdrop of roasted flavors, the paste is hot and shrimpy, as well as sweet and tangy, complimenting seafood dishes especially well. |
 | | If imported roasted chilli paste is not readily available where you live, you can make your own supply with the recipe on page 175 of Dancing Shrimp. |
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