Andy Ricker's Kapi Kung (Homemade shrimp paste)

Name: Andy Ricker's Kapi Kung (Homemade shrimp paste)
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 10 min
Total time: 10 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 473 milliliters jarred Korean salted shrimp; 2 Tbsps Thai shrimp paste (galled gapi or kapi)

Andy Ricker's Kapi Kung (Homemade shrimp paste) is a gluten free, dairy free, and primal recipe with 4 servings. This main course has 88 calories, 19g of protein, and 1g of fat per serving. This recipe covers 7% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes roughly 10 minutes.

Instructions

Briefly rinse the salted shrimp, then put them in a double layer of cheesecloth and gently squeeze out most of the liquid.

Ingredients you will need

Shrimp

Equipment you will use

Cheesecloth

Mix the salted shrimp and shrimp paste together in the mortar and pound, stirring occasionally with a spoon, until you have a coarse paste that's a more or less even light brown color, 3 to 5 minutes. It's fine if htere are very small pieces of salted shrimp.

Ingredients you will need

Belacan

Shrimp

Equipment you will use

Mortar And Pestle

The paste keeps in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 6 months.

Equipment

Cheesecloth

Mortar And Pestle

Ingredients

Servings:

473milliliters

jarred Korean salted shrimp 2Tbsps

Thai shrimp paste (galled gapi or kapi)

Recommended wine: Pinot Grigio, Riesling, Sauvignon Blanc

Shrimp can be paired with Pinot Grigio, Riesling, and Sauvignon Blanc. These crisp white wines work well with shrimp prepared in a variety of ways, whether grilled, fried, or in garlic sauce. You could try Caposaldo Pinot Grigio. Reviewers quite like it with a 4.5 out of 5 star rating and a price of about 10 dollars per bottle.