Recipe: Yummy Thai-Korean Inspired Preserved Shrimp (Gejang Style Koong Chae Nam Pla)

Thai-Korean Inspired Preserved Shrimp (Gejang Style Koong Chae Nam Pla).

You can have Thai-Korean Inspired Preserved Shrimp (Gejang Style Koong Chae Nam Pla) using 13 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Prepare of raw head-on shrimp, body peeled and deveined, front legs trimmed off.
Prepare of jalapeño, thinly sliced.
Prepare of habanero, thinly sliced.
It's of garlic, thinly sliced.
You need of chiles de arbol, thinly sliced.
It's of about 1.5" knob of ginger, peeled and finely julienned.
It's of crushed chili flakes.
It's of optional: 2 dried Kaffir lime leaves, finely julienned.
It's of the zest and juice of 1 Kaffir lime (or a regular lime if that's what you've got).
You need of + 1 Tablespoon fish sauce.
Prepare of soy sauce.
You need of water.
Prepare of sugar.

In a medium bowl, combine fish sauce, soy sauce, water, sugar, and lime zest and juice, and stir until all sugar is dissolved..
Put shrimp and rest of ingredients in a tight lidded container or mason jar, and pour brine over all of it..
Using a spoon, press down on the top to submerge ingredients on top in the brine..
In 6 hours or so, redistribute the ingredients so the stuff on the top is now on the bottom. (So everything gets evenly brined and preserved.).
Refrigerate a minimum of 24 hours before enjoying with steamed rice. Keep refrigerated between consumption..
Enjoy!.

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