Hot & Sweet Chicken Banh Mi

Step 3: Make the chile-garlic honey

  • Chile garlic honey

    • dried bird's eye chiles
      6
    • garlic
      4 cloves
    • honey
      a spoonful

Remove the stem and seeds from the dried chilies. Add the dried chiles to a bowl. In a kettle or pot, boil some water and pour it over the chiles. Set them aside for 5-10 minutes to rehydrate.

Toss the rehydrated chiles into a mortar and pestle with a sprinkle of salt. Bash and grind the chiles until a smooth paste forms. Add in the garlic cloves and continue mashing until a rough paste is reached.

Transfer to a container, add the spoonful of honey, and mix everything to combine. Taste it and add salt or more honey as needed. Caution: this will be spicy.

  • Store in the fridge for several weeks.
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