📋Nuoc cham (Vietnamese Dipping Sauce)

a jar of nuac cham a Vietnamese dipping sauce made of fish sauce.

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📋Nuoc cham (Vietnamese Dipping Sauce)

Nuoc cham is a Vietnamese dipping sauce a staple in Vietnamese cuisine. This chili-garlic sauce is used in a variety of Vietnamese dishes. Nuoc cham is made of fish sauce, rice wine vinegar, sugar, garlic, chili, and lime juice. It’s got a wonderful balance of pungent, salty, sweet, spicy, and tang and makes everything taste better.

Prep Time5

Total Time5

Course: Sauces

Cuisine: Asian, Vietnamese

Servings: cup

Calories: 147kcal

Author: Jyothi Rajesh

Ingredients

¼ cup fish sauce use premium quality sauce
3 tablespoons water
2 teaspoons rice wine vinegar or white distilled vinegar
1 ½ tablespoons lime juice freshly squeezed
2 tablespoons white granular sugar
1 teaspoon sweet chili sauce or any Asian chili sauce (optional)
2 cloves garlic minced
1 Thai red chili use more if you like it spicy
1 tablespoon carrot shredded

Instructions

In a bowl mix fish sauce, water, rice wine vinegar, sugar, sweet chili sauce, freshly squeezed lime juice, diced red chilies and minced garlic. Mix well until sugar is dissolved.
Taste and adjust flavors according to your preference.
When ready to serve mix in shredded carrot.
Enjoy as a dipping sauce, use it as a marinade, or drizzle over Vietnamese dishes.

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Notes

The quality of the fish sauce will affect the taste, use premium quality.
Feel free to use any spicy chili, if you can't get fresh red chilies use Asian chili paste.
If you plan to store longer, use white vinegar for lime juice. Also, hold adding shredded carrots. You can stir in shredded carrot to the sauce just before serving.

The nutrition values mentioned are for 1 cup.

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

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