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Thai supper recipes: rice cakes with spicy dipping sauce

Serves: 4-6 persons

1 cup Thai jasmine rice

1 1/2 cups water

oil, for deep-frying and greasing

For the spicy dipping sauce:

6-8 dried chillies

1/2 tsp salt

2 shallots, chopped

2 garlic cloves, chopped

4 coriander (cilantro) roots

10 white peppercorns

1 cup coconut milk

1 tsp shrimp paste

115 g minced (ground) pork

115 g cherry tomatoes, chopped

1 tbsp Thai fish sauce

1 tbsp palm sugar or light muscovado (brown) sugar

2 tbsp tamarind juice (tamarind paste mixed with warm water)

2 tbsp coarsely chopped roasted peanuts

2 spring onions (scallions), chopped

1.

Make the sauce. Snap off the stems of the chillies, shake out the seeds and soak the chillies in warm water for 20 minutes. Drain and put in a mortar. Sprinkle over the salt and crush. Add the shallots, garlic, coriander and peppercorns. Pound to a coarse paste.

2.

Pour the coconut milk into a pan and bring to the boil. When it begins to separate, stir in the pounded chilli paste. Cook for 2-3 minutes, until the mixture is fragrant. Stir in the shrimp paste and cook for 1 minute more.

3.

Add the pork, stirring to break up any lumps. Cook for 5-10 minutes, then stir in the tomatoes, fish sauce, palm sugar and tamarind juice. Simmer, stirring occasionally, until the sauce thickens, then stir in the chopped peanuts and spring onions. Remove the sauce from the heat and leave to cool.

4.

Preheat the oven to the lowest setting. Grease a baking sheet. Wash the rice in several changes of water. Put it in a pan, add the water and cover tightly. Bring to the boil, reduce the heat and simmer gently for about 15 minutes.

5.

Remove the lid and fluff up the rice. Spoon it on to the baking sheet and press it down with the back of a spoon. Leave in the oven to dry out overnight.

6.

Break the rice into bitesize pieces. Heat the oil in a wok or deep-fryer. Deep-fry the rice cakes, in batches, for about 1 minute, until they puff up but are not browned. Remove and drain well. Serve with the dipping suace.

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