Thai Cuisine and Lifestyle |161
How to cook Budu Sauce
• Put fermented Budu water, clean water,
lemongrass, galangal, shallot and tamarind
sauce into a pot, boil them together until
the mixture turn in high heat.
• Simmer the mixture with a light fire and filter
the residue.
• Boil the filtered Budu sauce again and stew
with palm sugar, sugar and kaffir lime leaves
over a light fire until it tastes salty and slightly
sweet.
“The famous Southern
Budu is Sai Buri Budu,
a product of the Budu
Paseyawo occupation
group in Sai Buri
district, Pattani province.
Raw materials used are
anchovy mixed with
a proper proportion of
salf fermented in
a suitable duration,
will result a tasty Budu
sauce.”