Vietnamese Dipping Sauce (Nuoc Cham)

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Vietnamese salty-sour dipping sauce. Serve with fried Spring Rolls

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Vietnamese Dipping Sauce (Nuoc Cham) Ingredients

2 cloves Garlic minced	3 tablespoons water
0.25 cup fresh lime juice	2 tablespoons sugar
1 small shallot minced	1 medium carrot finely shredded
3 tablespoons rice wine vinegar	0.25 cup fish sauce to taste
1 medium Chile Pepper fresh seeded minced

Instructions for Vietnamese Dipping Sauce (Nuoc Cham)

This was developed for people who did not like the taste of fish sauce. If you like it you can increase the quantity a bit.

Combine Garlic, shallot, Chile and Sugar in mortar and pestle and pound to a paste. Stir in fish Sauce, lime juice, vinegar and Water. When Sugar is completely dissolved, stir in carrot. Or you can combine all ingredients in jar with tight-fitting lid and shake until blended.

Main Ingredient: Nuoc MamCuisine: Vietnamese

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Carrot

Fish Sauce

Garlic

Lime Juice

Rice Wine Vinegar

Shallot

Sugar

Sauces Condiments Vietnamese Nuoc Mam

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Very tasty and easy to make! We made pot stickers tonight and I was looking for a different dipping sauce. Mine didn't come out as pretty as yours but it had great flavor. Did you use vinegar or rice-wine vinegar? I wasn't sure so I went with the rice-wine vinegar and it rocked! Thanks for sharing!

swibirun
on Mar 31 2008 7:45PM

I LOVE it! We have tried and failed to find a recipe that compares with restaurants and this one was even BETTER than the restaurants! I actually already "made it again"...when we ran out of it because it was so good!

cookgirl
on Dec 18 2005 2:59AM

nice shot ;)

electranwn
on Oct 27 2005 10:58AM

No meal is considered complete without this sauce which is used as freely as salt and pepper. It is also known as nuoc mam sauce. It will keep about one week in the refrigerator [I posted this recipe.]