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Thailand Recipe

Title

Miang Kham

Meal

Main Dish

Ingredients

1 cup shredded coconut

1/2 cup diced red onion

1/2 cup diced lime

1/2 cup peanuts

1/2 cup dried shrimp

50 to 70 shaploo leaves (or lettuce or spinach leaves)

1 tablespoon hot green pepper (optional)

1/2 cup sliced lemon grass (optional)

Shrimp paste

2/3 cup coconut sugar

Directions

1. Heat the sugar until it is well-melted syrup, then add the shrimp paste, and stir it while it is boiling or it will be burned; taste if it needs some sugar or shrimp. The right taste should be between sweet and salty.

2. Instruction for preparing the shredded coconut: Buy a whole coconut from any food market. Break its shell and take the white part out. Wash it thoroughly. Make sure it is fresh. Then shred it (without peeling the brown skin that attaches the white part to the shell) into 1 by 1-millimeter shreds. Put the shredded coconut in a hot pan and stir it until it is all brown. It should take about 20 minutes with medium heat.

3. Arrange all the ingredients in a compartment dish (if any, otherwise put each ingredient in a cup). Each guest will sit around preparing his/her own bite. If Shaploo leaves are not available, lettuce or spinach could be substituted. Each person takes some of each ingredient and puts them on the leaf, drops about half a teaspoon of the sauce on them; wraps the leave, and takes it. The combination of taste and smell is the rule of the game! One can leave anything out if one doesn't like it, but make sure the lemon slice is taken.

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