How to make shrimp paste

The steps to make shrimp paste at home are as follows:

1. Wash the fresh shrimps, drain them and weigh them. Then add salt and drained shrimps in the ratio of 500g shrimps to 100g salt. Put the shrimp together into a food processor and blend until pureed.

2. Then pour it into a clean container, cover the mouth of the container with gauze, and place it in a sunny place for natural fermentation.

3. In order to ferment evenly, open the gauze every day and stir once with dry and sterilized chopsticks.

4. It can be eaten after about half a month. The color of the shrimp paste will be red after fermentation.

5. Cover and store in the refrigerator.