🍲 Spicy Frog Pounded Dip, Come Try It!

🍲 Come eat frog pounded dip with us! Ban Nong Chim has such a delicious food dish.

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🍲 Frog Pounded Dip, or Frog Chili Dip 🐸
When you hear this, it's probably familiar to many people, especially people from the Northeast (Isan), because it's a favorite menu of many people. Few people don't know about it. Frog pounded dip is a dish that has accompanied Isan people for a long time, because it's a menu that's easy to make, convenient, and saves time.

🌱 Importantly, it can be eaten with many kinds of vegetables, whether cucumber, eggplant, bitter melon, Chinese cabbage, cabbage, local vegetables, lead tree (kathin), boiled dok kachiao flowers, or other vegetables that we have.

As for choosing frogs to make frog pounded dip, both field frogs and farmed frogs can be used, but the most popular is usually field frog pounded dip, because it can be found in the rice fields and gives a more delicious, well-rounded taste than farmed frogs. However, this depends on each person's preference and convenience.

🥣🧂 Ingredients for making frog pounded dip 🥗
Field frogs or farmed frogs
Chili
Garlic
Spring onion
Cilantro
Lime
Fish sauce
Fermented fish sauce (pla ra)
MSG
Sugar
Wild olive (makok pa)

🌱 How to make frog pounded dip 🌱

Butcher and skin the frog, remove the inedible internal organs, then wash with clean water.
Grill or roast the frog, or boil the frog in fermented fish sauce.
Pound chili and garlic until moderately fine.
Put the grilled cooked frog meat along with bones, or the boiled cooked frog, into the mortar, tearing the frog meat into moderately sized pieces that will be easier to pound.
Pound until fine (the fineness depends on your preference).
Add the fermented fish sauce that we boiled together with the pounded frog. If you like, you can add wild olive (makok) or makok pa for a more well-rounded taste 😋.
Season with lime, MSG, sugar, and fish sauce to taste.
Sprinkle with spring onion and cilantro, and it's done and ready to eat.

You can buy field frogs in Nong Chim, both at the market and from villagers who go out to find them to sell, or receive them from neighbors who bring them as gifts 🤩.

Thank you very much 🙏