Category Archives: Dips and Extra's

dips for salads, steak, fish and vegetables, all kinds of simple dips to brighten any meal up.

Steak Sauce

Steak Sauce

This Simple quick steak sauce is ideal with beef or chicken.
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Marinate meat for 2 hours.

1 clove garlic
1 teaspoon peppercorns

mix in pestle and mortar, add 1 teaspoon worchestshire sauce, 2 teaspoon tomato ketchup, 1 teaspoon honey and mix, spread over meat, fry the meat in non stick pan, when cooked add 1/2 cup water to de glaze pan, thicken with little corn flour.

I made this sauce with local steak, served with saute potatoes, and salad.
Steak Dinner

Red Curry Paste (nam prik kaeng)

Red Curry Paste (nam prik kaeng)

This recipe is for the classic red curry paste of Thailand. great to make fresh fish cakes with and it can be kept frozen or in a container in the fridge.
12 large red dried chilli’s.
1 teaspoon salt.
2 red onion.
2 stalks lemon grass.
4 cloves of garlic.
1/4 teaspoon shrimp paste.
1 inch galangal.
1/2 teaspoon Coriander seeds.
skin from 1 kaffir lime.

If you have time make in a pok pok / mortar and pestle do not use a blender as the taste and texture will not be as good.

first de seed the dry chilli,soak in water for 5 minutes, and peel the onions, dice into small pieces.
add the salt to the mortar.
finely slice the lemon grass and add, to mortar,add the 4 garlic, finely sliced,and the shrimp paste, & kaffir lime skin .mix slowly, till you get a rough paste. add the chilli and coriander seeds. mix again,finally add the onion, this all takes time, please be patient. keep mixing till a almost smooth paste appears.
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