Raw In Scotland: Getting beyond boredom with bland

When, which isn't that often considering I've always played around with food, I get bored with very simple salad dishes one thing I do is head to a delicatessen. This time it was a little Thai deli I'd never been to and I dawdled around looking at what they had. Most of the divine pastes and sauces are seasoned with fish sauce and shrimp paste which like me you may want to avoid and many are full of sugar, msg and other unhelpful things, but there are a few gems and this time I found one that was new to me, Tom Kha paste. It contains:Coconut milk, onion, galanga, lemon grass, salt, garlic, citrus leaf, red chilli, citric acid, sugar and, which I didn't notice when I bought it because the print was so small, MSG. The 12% sugar isn't that bad because I only used a teaspoon full for each serving, but now I've spotted the MSG I'll probably keep the jar long enough to figure out a raw equivalent recipe and buzz the rest.

Look out for vegetarian pastes without the pesky msg.

Anyway, what I did with it was to very finely chop just about every veggie I could find including shitake mushrooms, red onion, tray grown snow pea shoots and courgette. I grated some carrot so finely it was almost mush and mixed all with some of the paste and some warm water. It made completely divine soup. The paste wasn't raw but hey, all the veggies were so it was still a change and an excellent meal.

When I get time I'll be fiddling around with fresh coconut milk squeezed out of a coconut blended with water and lemongrass, and blending in cayenne (which, unlike chilli, is not irritating to the gut walls), onion, garlic, ginger, coriander/cilantro and whatever other nice fresh Thai ingredients I can lay my hands on. And that really will be divine. Do hassle me to post the recipe.

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