Hot tiger sauce

Name: Hot tiger sauce
Cuisine: Thai
Ingredients: 2 tablespoons Demerara or palm sugar; 4 tablespoons uncooked long-grain rice; 1 tablespoon crushed, dried red bird’s eye chillies; 5 tablespoons tamarind juice; 2 tablespoons Thai fish sauce (nam pla); 2 tablespoons Thai fish sauce (nam pla); 2 tablespoons Demerara or palm sugar

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Keith Floyd's Thai Food

By Keith Floyd

Published 2006

About

Ingredients

4 tablespoons uncooked long-grain rice
1 tablespoon crushed, dried red bird’s eye chillies
5

Asia
Thailand
Fish course
Sauce
Pescatarian
Gluten-free
Southeast Asia
Spicy

Method

Heat a dry, heavy-based frying pan and toast the uncooked rice until it is golden brown. Put the rice in a spice grinder and grind to a fine powder, then set aside.
Put the chillies in a bowl, add 1 tablespoon of the rice powder and mix well.
Add the rest of the ingredients and the remaining rice powder and stir well until you have a relatively thick sau