Sauces and Pastes

Thai cookery involves a number of tasty sauces and pastes, some light, some thick. They are essential to the authentic taste of Thai cooking, and it is well worth making the effort to obtain them. Most are sold in bottles or tins by Thai or Chinese grocers and in some supermarkets. Tinned sauces, once opened, should be transferred to screw-top glass jars and kept in the refrigerator where they will last indefinitely.