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Deep-fried yellow bean paste (baa yir)

Yield: 3 Servings

Ingredients:

• 4 oz Dried moong beans -- soaked in water for 30 -- minutes and drained
• 1 tb Plain flour
• 2 ts Red curry paste
• 1 tb Light soy sauce
• 1 ts Sugar
• 2 Kaffir lime leaves

Instructions:

- rolled into a cigarette & - finely sliced into slivers Oil; for deep-frying MMMMM-------------------------THE SAUCE------------------------------ 4 tb Sugar 6 tb Rice vinegar 1/2 ts Salt In a mortar pound the drained moong beans to form a paste. Add the other ingredients in turn stirring well. Pluck a small piece of the paste and form into a ball the size of a walnut. Do not mould too tightly. Deep-fry the balls until golden brown drain and serve with the thick sweet sauce below. THE SAUCE: Gently heat the three ingredients until the sugar dissolves. Allow to cool before serving. Source: Thai Vegetarian Cooking by Vatcharin Bhumichitr Typed for you by Karen Mintzias

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