Dried fish Chilli paste

I enjoyed to cooking and making food. My cooking sometime you might not recognise of course if you never go to Isan ( Northeastern Thailand )

This dish is my Grandma favourite dish and I also love this dish too eat with sticky rice and vegetables.At my hometown we always grow vegetables and some herb in our back yard like Thai eggplant, chilli, Galangal, lemongrass and some other ingredients. When my mother cook she always ask me to get some herb and vegetables from the garden and I love to eat vegetables and herb.

Ingredients 

250 g Mackerel or Basa fish
5 Garlic cloves 
6 Fresh chilli
3 Shallots
1 Table spoon fish fermented sauce
2 Table spoon lime juice
 
Side dish 
Green vegetables, carrots, Cucumbers, Snake bean 


Instructions

1. Add Chilli, garlic and shallots into a pan and cook well.
2. Grill Mackerel and cool down. Tear meat out off the bone and put aside.
(If use Mackerel in tin, heat the pan until hot add mackerel into the pan 
and stir fish until dry)
3. Add garlic, chilli and shallots into mortar and pound together
 and then add mackerel into mortar pound again, add fish fermented sauce,
lime juice, and gently pound again then transfer into the serving bowl.

*serve with side dish like Green vegetables, Snake bean, cucumbers and
 carrots or other steamed vegetables or as you prefer. And steamed sticky rice.