I love adding this to spice up my prawn mee recipe (shrimp noodle soup), but it’s also good on anything else.

Ingredients
- belacan (a block of shrimp paste)
- red chili peppers
- shallots
- garlic
- dried shrimp
- canola/avocado oil
- sugar

Directions

1. In a small pan, roast belacan (1 cube).
2. In a food processor, add thai red chili peppers (a handful or 8 peppers), shallots (1), garlic (3/4 bulb), dried shrimp (2 handfuls).
3. Use a lot of oil to fry the paste until the oil separates the paste and add sugar (3 tsp).