Nuoc Mam Gung

Description
I enclose a recipe for Nuoc Mam Gung, a Thai sauce which can be used for dipping or as a kind of salad dressing (in small amounts; it's HOT!). At home we often have it with prawns grilled with garlic and chilis and a salad made from lettuce, finely sliced onion and coriander (cilantro in the States?). Nuoc Mam Gung.



Ingredients

 * 1 piece ginger, peeled (5 cm piece)
 * 2 tablespoons caster sugar
 * 2 birds eye chilis
 * 2 cloves garlic
 * 1/2 lime, peeled and sectioned
 * 2 tablespoons nam pla (fish sauce, available from oriental supermarkets)

Directions

 * 1) Put the lot in a food processor and whizz until liquid.
 * 2) Taste, and add more lime/Nam Pla if you think it needs it.