🌶 The Powerful 2-Ingredient Hot Sauce

Thai people can't live without it!

Sawaddee Ka 🙏🏼

Before we get to the hot sauce, two announcements:

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Now, that powerful 2-ingredient hot sauce.

You know the stories of proud chefs who refuse to give diners salt shakers because they don’t want people messing with their perfectly seasoned food? Well, Thai people are the opposite.

If you’ve ever been to Thailand, you’ve surely witnessed the many little bowls of condiments on our dining tables. We believe in “seasoning to one’s own taste” because everyone has different preferences. Hence all the condiments.

I’ve shared one of these condiments before: prik nam pla, which is our all-purpose seasoning booster. And today I want to share another that is so simple yet so powerful, and in some cases I would insist it is necessary for the dish to reach its potential. It’s prik nam som, translated as chili vinegar.

The name tells you all you need to make it: chili and vinegar, making it the simplest hot sauce in the world. However, there are a few variations that you can make, and in the latest video I show you 4 different versions of prik nam som.

When would you use it? Typically when the dish is heavy or oily and with a flavour profile that is salty and/or sweet, because the acid and heat from prik nam som will help balance it.

Pad see ew, a salty-sweet noodle stir fry is one dish that absolutely needs prik nam som (unless you’re a child). So does boat noodles and kao ka moo pork leg stew on rice.

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