When you’re ready to take the next step into Southeast Asian umami, get yourself a jar of fermented shrimp paste, or mam tom.
utilizes the same principles but with tomato and rice vinegar. If you want to play around with dipping sauce recipes, you can do like a true Vietnamese grandma does and add crushed canned pineapple, which pairs really well with grilled beef. You just need something tart to slice through the thick fog of fermented shrimp flavor. “It’s that sense of gravitas,” Nguyen said. “Shrimp paste lends that little bit of oomph to a dish.
Mam tom, the Vietnamese shrimp paste, makes a umami-rich sauce for this stir-fry of water spinach and pork. Prop styling by Nidia Cueva.in this five-minute stir-fry from Diep Tran, chef and owner of the recently closed Good Girl Dinette in Highland Park.definitely brings funk to the fresh greens but doesn’t overpower them. The fat from pork belly mellows the, and the garlic, chile and lemon juice brighten the greens.
Add the shrimp paste and cook, stirring and mashing the paste into the pan, until it loses its raw aroma, about 15 seconds. Add the water spinach all at once. Gently press and fold the greens into the pan to wilt them evenly and lift the garlic off the bottom of the pan so it doesn’t burn. Keep stirring until the greens are all wilted but still bright in color and their juices have released, 1 to 2 minutes total.
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