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Key Ingredient
Nuoc cham sauce recipe
Created by Hanh Nguyen
- Cuisine: Vietnamese
- Prep Time: 5 min(s)
- Makes 1 ½ cups
Nuoc cham is the key dipping sauce and accompanies salads as well as many other dishes. The main ingredient is fish sauce.
Ingredients
1 garlic clove3 small red chillies
140 ml first-grade fish sauce (nuoc mam nhi)
130 g sugar
2 tbsp water
juice of 1 lemon
Preparation
Pound the garlic and chillies to a paste in a mortar. Combine the fish sauce, sugar, water and lemon juice in a bowl. Stir thoroughly until the sugar has dissolved. Stir in the garlic and chilli paste; the chilli should float on the surface.SBS cook’s notes
Oven temperatures are for conventional; if using fan-forced (convection), reduce the temperature by 20˚C. | We use Australian tablespoons and cups: 1 teaspoon equals 5 ml; 1 tablespoon equals 20 ml; 1 cup equals 250 ml. | All herbs are fresh (unless specified) and cups are lightly packed. | All vegetables are medium size and peeled, unless specified. | All eggs are 55–60 g, unless specified.
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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.
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.
02 Nov 2008 04:11 AEST
Penny
New Lambton
17 Oct 2008 08:18 AEST
Rebecca
Curlewis
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