Life All Travel Destinations Entertaining Food All Chefs Recipes Restaurants Wine Pairing Food News Wine All Wine 101 Wine News Wine Regions Wine Varietals Wineries Home > Selector Magazine > Food > Thi Le Steamed Pippies Food Thi Le Steamed Pippies Preparation time 10mins Cooking time 10mins Serves 4 Melbourne chef Thi Le, co-owner of Anchovy restaurant, shares her Pippies with Mam Tep recipe. Delicate yet intensely flavoured, the pippies are complemented by a dry Rosé or spicy white like Gewürztraminer. Ingredients Nuoc cham base 50g palm sugar 50g vinegar 50g fish sauce Mam tep 10g galangal 10g ginger 5g garlic 100g Nuoc cham base 35g olive oil 1/4 tsp toasted chilli powder 500g pippies 100ml fish stock 1 bunch Rau dang 50g mam tep Olive oil Recipe by Thi Le Photography by Kristoffer Paulsen Method Nuoc Cham Base 1. Place all ingredients into a small pot, dissolve and bring to the boil. 2. Skim all the scum and set aside to cool down. Mam Tep 1. For mam tep, place galangal, ginger and garlic in a mortar and pestle. Pound till smooth. Add remaining ingredients. 2. Heat wok to medium heat, add fish stock and pippies. Cover with lid, steam pippies for 2 minutes. 3. Remove any open pippies and place in a bowl, add rau dang. 4. Pour hot fish stock over pippies and add mam tep. Adjust with lemon to suit taste. 5. Place in a bowl and garnish with olive oil. Wine Match Rosé or Gewürztraminer Food Preparation Time 10mins Cooking Time 10mins Serves 4 Explore now You might also like Food Thi Le's Lobster Food Thi Le's Raw Fish Salad Food Chance Change and Opportunity with Thi Le Words by Natascha Mirosch on 21 Jan 2021