Seafood Skewers With Nam Jim Sauce - cooking recipe

Ingredients

16 None raw shrimp, peeled, deveined, tails intact
16 None scallops, cleaned
2 tbsp oil
1 stalk lemongrass, white root finely chopped
1 clove garlic, crushed
8 None bamboo skewers, soaked
None None Nam Jim Sauce
2 None long red chili peppers, seeded, chopped
4 None coriander roots, washed
1 clove garlic, peeled
1/4 cup lime juice
1/2 tbsp brown sugar
1 tbsp fish sauce

Preparation

Preheat a grill on medium. In a bowl, combine shrimp, scallops, oil, lemongrass and garlic. Season to taste. Thread 2 shrimp and 2 scallops alternately onto skewers.
For the Nam Jim sauce, crush chili pepper, coriander root and garlic with a mortar and pestle, 3-4 mins, into a paste. Add lime juice, brown sugar and fish sauce, stirring until sugar dissolves.
Grill seafood skewers 1-2 mins each side, until lightly browned and shrimp are just cooked through. Serve skewers with sweet and sour sauce for dipping.