Asian Dipping Sauce

The Asian dipping sauce is easy to make and incredibly delicious! Perfect for entertainment or any gathering and tastes amazing for dumplings, spring rolls, lettuce wraps, and more.

If you like light and refreshing sauce try Nuoc cham a Vietnamese dipping sauce.

Asian dipping sauce recipe

This Asian dipping sauce will remind you of your favorite Asian restaurant that serves an incredible range of dipping and spreadable sauce that goes with a wide range of Asian recipes you order. Asian appetizers are great, but dipping them in the sauce makes them incredibly delicious. As much as the appetizers, the dipping sauce is an important part of your Asian dining experience.

Your favorite restaurant-quality Asian dipping sauce can be easily made at home using simple and readily available ingredients. A good soy dipping sauce has a wonderful balance of sweet, salt, tart, and savory flavors.

You can easily adapt it to taste. Adjust the number of sauces to suit your taste buds, add other ingredients that you like and easily substitute with ingredients you have in your pantry. Make the sauce ahead and refrigerate it in an airtight container, it can be stored for 1-2 weeks.

Why I love this Asian dipping sauce

1. It’s a perfect dip for any Asian appetizer.
2. In a matter of 5 minutes, you have an incredibly tasty sauce that is perfect for entertainment.
3. You’ll need very few simple ingredients to make it.
4. It’s super versatile; you can add and adjust ingredients per taste.
5. It’s full of umami flavors – salty, sweet, sour, and savory!
6. Great for dipping dumplings, spring rolls, lettuce wraps, pot stickers, Japanese gyoza, boiled bok choy, and my favorite kimchi pancakes.  It can also be used as a marinade for chicken, pork, or tofu.

Ingredients

1. Soy sauce – use low-sodium soy sauce.
2. Garlic – fresh garlic minced fine. Use fresh garlic, do not use garlic powder.
3. Ginger – fresh ginger, grated. Use fresh ginger, do not use ginger powder.
4. Red pepper flakes – can substitute red pepper flakes with fresh Thai chilies minced, sriracha sauce, or chili garlic sauce.
5. Rice vinegar – I recommend rice vinegar. If you can’t get rice vinegar, use distilled vinegar or fresh lime juice.
6. Sesame oil – I like the flavor of toasted sesame oil. Sesame oil is pungent and has a strong taste, if you don’t like the flavor you can reduce the amount mentioned in the recipe.
7. Light brown sugar – can be substituted with white sugar or honey.
8. Scallion – feel free to use both the white and green parts of the scallion. I prefer the green part more.
9. Sesame seeds – for better flavor and taste use toasted sesame seeds.

How to make it

In a bowl add all ingredients and whisk well.

That’s it! Serve with your favorite Asian appetizer. It’s great for dipping dumplings and Kimchi pancakes.

Ways to serve it

This sauce is great for dipping dumplings, spring rolls, lettuce wraps, pot stickers, Japanese gyoza, boiled bok choy and my favorite kimchi pancakes.  It can also be used as a marinade for chicken, pork or tofu.

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📋Asian Dipping Sauce

Jyothi Rajesh

The Asian dipping sauce is easy to make and incredibly delicious! Perfect for entertainment or any gatherings and tastes amazing for dumplings, spring rolls, lettuce wraps, and more.

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Prep Time 5 minutes mins

Course condiments, sauce

Cuisine Asian

Servings 1 cup

Calories 213

Ingredients

  

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• ▢ ¾ cup soy sauce low sodium
• ▢ 2 teaspoon garlic minced
• ▢ ¼ teaspoon ginger grated
• ▢ 1 teaspoon red pepper flakes
• ▢ 1 tablespoon rice vinegar
• ▢ 1 teaspoon sesame oil
• ▢ 1 tablespoon light brown sugar
• ▢ 1 scallion thinly sliced
• ▢ ½ teaspoon sesame seeds

Instructions

 

• In a bowl add all ingredients and whisk well.
• That’s it! Serve with your favorite Asian appetizer. It’s great for dipping dumplings and Kimchi pancakes.

Notes

Nutritional Info – Please keep in mind that the nutritional information provided is only a rough estimate and can vary greatly based on the products used.

Nutrition

Calories: 213kcalCarbohydrates: 26gProtein: 19gFat: 5gSaturated Fat: 1gPolyunsaturated Fat: 2gMonounsaturated Fat: 2gSodium: 9759mgPotassium: 488mgFiber: 3gSugar: 15gVitamin A: 713IUVitamin C: 4mgCalcium: 82mgIron: 5mg

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