Chilli paste

This chilli paste cooks dried chillies with hard dried fish, onion, garlic, soy sauce and a little sugar. It keeps for many days, so a spoonful is always ready to liven up a meal.

Ingredients

• 300 g dried chillies (washed and pounded)

• 100 g onion (finely chopped)

• 25 g garlic (chopped small)

• 1 cup hard dried fish (finely ground)

• 1/2 cup soy sauce

• 1/3 cup ordinary sugar

• A little salt

• A little oil

Method

1. First put a pan on the stove.

2. When it is hot, add the onion and garlic.

3. When the onion turns red, add the chillies and salt.

4. When well fried, add the soy sauce and sugar.

5. Fry well over low heat.

Tips

• This paste is made with quite a lot of oil, because it is kept for many days.