1 bowl · Easy · 20 min · ₭ Cheap

In Laos, we like eating sour fruits for snack. There are many fruit and many type of sauce. This sauce is one of the basic and popular one. So good :)

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Ingredients

Sour fruits

• 2 green mangoes
• 20 green tamarind
• 1 guava
• 20 rose apples
• 20 carandas plums (carissa carandas)

For the sauce

• 1 small bowl of dried hot chili, more or less
• 10 cloves of garlic
• 1 small bowl of brown sugar
• 1 tablespoon of salt
• 1 tablespoon of MSG
• 1 small bowl of Lao fermented fish sauce (padek)
• 1 small bowl of water

Preparation

1. Clean all the fruit with water. Then slice them into bite sized pieces as you prefer.

2. Prepare the sauce:

- Roast dried chili in a pan until it becomes brown.

- Pour chili into the mortar, add garlic and pound finely.

- Then add chili and garlic into the sauce pot, add sugar, salt, msg, water, and fermented fish sauce. Bring to boil about 10mns or until the sauce reduce to thick texture as you prefer. (you can always add more sugar if needed)

- Let it cool, and transfer to a small bowl. Take the fruits to dip. Yummy !