Ingredients

• Thai fish sauce - 3 tbsp
• red lentils - 100 gm
• thick coconut milk - 1 cup
• prawns - 250 gm, cleaned and chopped
• squid - 2, cleaned and sliced into rings
• onion - 1
• cloves - 3
• oriental chili paste - 2 tsp
• water - 3 cup
• For Oriental Chilli Paste:
• dry shrimp - 1 tbsp
• dried red chillies - 5
• shallots - 6 to 8
• garlic - 5 flakessugar - 2 tsp
• thick tamarind juice - 2 tsp
• oil - 5 tbsp
• salt to taste

How to Make Seafood and Lentil Soup

• Combine lentils with water.
• Peel the onion and stick the cloves in it.
• Add it to the lentils.
• Simmer till lentils are soft and mushy.
• Lift out and discard the onion.
• Cool the lentils and blend till smooth.
• Combine chili paste with1/4 cup of coconut milk and cook in a non-stick pan till fragrant.
• Add the blended lentil, prawns and squid.
• Simmer till the sea food is cooked.
• Add fish sauce and remaining coconut milk.
• Simmer for 2 minutes.
• Serve hot.
• For Oriental Chilli Paste:
• Grind all the ingredients except oil and tamarind together to a paste.
• Heat oil and roast the paste over medium flame for about till the raw smell is lost.
• Add tamarind, mix well and remove.