I apologize in advance for posting an untested recipe. I usually like
to try them and be able to recommend them. Unfortunately, since I
don't know what fish sauce actually tastes like, I don't know whether
I'd be able to really judge it.
Anyway, I was going throught some old recipe files and found this
posting from news. I will probably try it the next time I attempt a
thai recipe.
NOTE: I finally have the fermented black [soy] beans at home now
because I bought them to make Michelle's green bean recipe. They were
a bit difficult to find. In the end, I found a vaccuum-packed bag of
them labelled "salted black beans" in a chinese grocery store.
Newsgroups: rec.food.cooking
Subject: vegetarian substitute for fish sauce
From: jkandell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Jonathan Kandell)
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1993 01:19:47 GMT
Reply-To: jkandell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Organization: University of Arizona
Nntp-Posting-Host: violet.ccit.arizona.edu
I experimented with vegetarian substitutes for thai fish sauce in pad thai
last night and had very good results with this mixture:
instead of 1/4 C nam prik (thai anchovy fish sauce)
use.... 1/4 C soy sauce plus a little water
with 3 T miso with 3T fermented black beans soaked in soy sauce and
sherry.... [available in oriental markets]
Cheers,jk
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