Food and Travel Magazine | Grilled mackerel with three-flavoured sauce

Food and Travel Magazine | Grilled mackerel with three-flavoured sauce

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Mackerel, or any oily, strong-flavoured fish, such as sardines, stands up well to this bold salty, sweet and sour sauce, which is adored by Thais. Don't skimp o

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Ingredients

  • 10 fresh bird’s eye chillies, or 5 jalapeño or serrano peppers, thinly sliced
  • 5 large garlic cloves
  • 28g shallots, cubed
  • 3 coriander roots, chopped,or 3tbsp finely chopped fresh coriander stems, stripped of leaves (you can buy coriander roots from Asian supermarkets and online)
  • 5tbsp vegetable oil
  • 105g grated palm sugar or granulated coconut sugar or 65g light brown sugar
  • 2tbsp granulated sugar
  • 60ml fish sauce
  • 60g tamarind paste
  • 4 whole mackerel or other oily, full-flavored fish, around 675g each, gutted and scaled
  • fresh red hot chilli peppersor sweet pepper, seeded, deveined, and cut lengthwise into thin strips, to garnish
  • cooked jasmine rice, to serve

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