Recipes with Shrimp Paste

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Fermented, pungent, and the savoury backbone of half the dishes below. Toast it first — a minute in a dry pan or wrapped in foil under a grill — which mellows the smell and deepens the flavour. Use far less than feels right: it is a seasoning, not an ingredient, and it should never be identifiable in the finished dish.

7 free recipes below, every one with a full ingredient list and step-by-step method. They run across Filipino, Vietnamese and Malaysian kitchens. On FoodNeverComes the food never actually arrives — so these are the ones you make yourself.