Recipe Fresh Thai Chilli Garlic Peanut Sauce

Rinse your chiles then remove stems. With stems removed, place them in a mortar and pestle together with a large piece of garlic as shown. Pound for a minute or two, not too much, leave the chillies a bit coarse not a fine paste.Add some peanuts and pound briefly, not to pulverize the peanuts too much.In a separate bowl, put about 2 tablespoons of fish sauce and a bit less than 1/2 cup water. Ideally you want 3x the amount of water as fish sauce.Spoon your chilli peanut mixture into the bowl, mix well then add juice from half of a lime.This is a delicious sauce that goes well over sliced beef, and salad as shown. Enjoy!