Dipping Sauce nuoc cham

nuoc cham dipping sauce
This nuoc cham dipping sauce from Vietnamese cuisine is delicious to enjoy with any meal. It can be served with spring rolls or grilled meats and seafood. This recipe is from DK Canada Spice book.

nuoc cham dipping sauce
2 chillies roughly chopped
1 garlic clove roughly chopped
2 tsp palm sugar
juice of 1/2 lime
2 tbsp Vietnamese fish sauce 
2 tbsp of water

Place the chillie, garlic, sugar in a pestle and mortar and pound into a paste. Squeeze the lime juice and add water and the fish sauce then mix well. Make sure the chillie and garlic is covered in liquid. 
nuoc cham dipping sauce
We have kept this sauce between one to two weeks in an airtight glass jar at room temperature. We made larger batches by increasing the quantities of the ingredients and using green chillie.   

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16 comments:

  1. Sounds like a great recipe. My husband would love it.
    Florence Cochrane

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  2. This dipping sauce sounds yummy, thx very much for the recipe.

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  3. This sounds very different and something unique to use other then plum sauce all the time

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  4. I looks a bit like salsa but a bit thinner.

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  5. this sounds so good! I love a good dipping sauce

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  6. This sounds interesting - definitely not familiar with it!

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  7. Nice,thanks for sharing can't wait to give it a try !

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  8. i would love to try this - looks good!

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  9. I'm not sure it would suite my tastebuds but I bet my two teenagers would love it.

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  10. My husband would LOVE this! Thanks for sharing.

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  11. This recipe sounds unique and delicious!

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  12. I can't tolerate any spice at all but my hubby and daughter would love this.

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  13. I love anything with spice so this would be amazing.

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