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Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Coffee XO Sauce




dried shrimp
ancho chilies
garlic
espresso with sugar (colada)
fish sauce
shoyu
oyster sauce
raw cocoa
bacon
thyme
sesame oil
chili oil
olive oil
black pepper
black shrimp paste (blacan)

Clearly, a last minute XO sauce (hence the already made colada). This is an idea that's been in my notebook for quite some time and finally decided to make it happen with whatever was around. It was delicious, don't get me wrong, but I do love how open something like an XO sauce is to a myriad of flavor combinations.

The basis for XO is generally: dried seafood, garlic, oil, smoked meat and chilies. Think about how many ways that can go.

I cooked the mixture until almost dry and rehydrated it with more espresso and the water used to originally hydrate the dried shrimp and chilies. The espresso and cocoa rounded it out nicely, lending bitter-ish tones for a more complete thought.


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  1. Hello belly grumbles.
    Delicious blog!

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