Nuoc cham sauce recipe

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Nuoc cham is the key dipping sauce and accompanies salads as well as many other dishes. The main ingredient is fish sauce.

Ingredients

1 clove garlic
3 chillies
7 tbsp fish sauce (good quality)
7 tbsp sugar
2 tbsp water
Juice of 1 lemon

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Preparation

Grind the garlic and chillies in a mortar and pestle until a thick paste.

In a separate mixing bowl combine the fish sauce, sugar, water and lemon juice. Stir thoroughly until sugar has dissolved.

Add the garlic and chilli paste and mix. The chilli should float on the surface.

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Comments (6)

   
09 Feb 2011 08:44 AEST
Jacq
Singapore
excellent sauce for salad
I added this to my asian salad which consisted of spring onion, onion, mango, mint, cucumber, and coriander leaves. Taste wonderful and heaven.
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21 Jul 2010 01:25 AEST
Aaas
2000
Lisa might not be wrong, she might just be used to the oher style of nuoc cham
Lol, if the sauce he's making is for dipping fish/meat in, then it's ok. But to go with salad like noodles salad or prawn n chicken salad, it's bad. Way way way too much fish sauce n so little sourness. My mum use lot of sugar n vinegar, n only a bit of fish sauce, to the point that it look the palest fish sauce u can find. I think if u follow this recipe, have it purely as a dipping for fried/steAm fish or fried tofu. Do not have it with ur salad or u'll be drinking h2o till dawn.
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01 Dec 2008 05:10 AEST
Nikki
Brisbane
Easyway
If you don't want to start from scratch, use sweet chilli sauce to replace sugar, chilli, garlic. 1 part sweet chilli sauce 1 part fish sauce 1 part lemon/lime juice 2 part water Same result but chilli will not too strong, suit for someone that is not used to it.
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02 Nov 2008 04:11 AEST
Penny
New Lambton
Balance the flavours
I love this sauce, and it has to be blended to suit the diner. The sweet, sour, garlic, chilli, and salty-fish flavours are very strong. Not for the timid!
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17 Oct 2008 08:18 AEST
Rebecca
Curlewis
old boots or bad mixing
I can't agree Lisa - perhaps you need to try again or with better quality ingredients
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11 Oct 2008 06:36 AEST
lisa
oxenford
old boots
Im sorry! This looks sooooo good but tastes very bad..... I was very surprised!
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