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

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

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

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

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

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

1. In a medium bowl, combine fish sauce, soy sauce, water, sugar, and lime zest and juice, and stir until all sugar is dissolved..
2. Put shrimp and rest of ingredients in a tight lidded container or mason jar, and pour brine over all of it..
3. Using a spoon, press down on the top to submerge ingredients on top in the brine..
4. 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.).
5. Refrigerate a minimum of 24 hours before enjoying with steamed rice. Keep refrigerated between consumption..
6. Enjoy!.