Fish Dipping Sauce: Nuoc Cham

Recipe courtesy of Corinne Trang

Show: Sara's Secrets

Episode: Everyday Asian

Fish Dipping Sauce: Nuoc Cham

Name: Fish Dipping Sauce: Nuoc Cham
Prep time: P0Y0M0DT0H5M0.000S
Cook time: P0Y0M0DT0H5M0.000S
Total time: P0Y0M0DT0H40M0.000S
Yield: 2 cups
Cuisine: asian
Ingredients: 5 tablespoons sugar; 3 tablespoons water; 1/3 cup fish sauce; 1/2 cup lime or lemon juice; 1 large clove garlic, minced; 1 or more bird's eye or Thai chiles, seeded and minced; 1 shallot, peeled, thinly sliced, and rinsed (optional)

Getting reviews...

Save Recipe

Level: Easy
Total: 40 min

Prep: 5 min
Inactive: 30 min
Cook: 5 min

Yield: 2 cups

Level: Easy
Total: 40 min

Prep: 5 min
Inactive: 30 min
Cook: 5 min

Yield: 2 cups

Ingredients

Deselect All

5 tablespoons sugar

3 tablespoons water

1/3 cup fish sauce

1/2 cup lime or lemon juice

1 large clove garlic, minced

1 or more bird's eye or Thai chiles, seeded and minced

1 shallot, peeled, thinly sliced, and rinsed (optional)

Directions

Whisk together the sugar, water, fish sauce, and lime juice in a bowl until the sugar is completely dissolved. Add the garlic, chile, and shallot, and let stand for 30 minutes before serving.

Recipe courtesy of Corinne Trang, Authentic Vietnamese Cooking, Simon & Schuster, 1999

My Private Notes

Add a Note

Show: Sara's Secrets

Episode: Everyday Asian

Looking for Something Else?

Quick & Easy Highly Rated Healthy Surprise Me

Sunny's Easy Bacon 'n' Egg Breakfast Pizza

Churro Loaf Cake

Creamy Vegan Potato Salad

Breakfast Burgers

Grilled Lemonade Chicken

On Tonight

Restaurant: Impossible

The Great Food Truck Race

Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives

The Pioneer Woman

The Kitchen

Girl Meets Farm

Kardea Brown

Ree Drummond

Ina Garten

Sunny Anderson

Bobby Flay

Valerie Bertinelli

Guy Fieri

Giada De Laurentiis

Molly Yeh

Step-by-Step Tutorials

Browse Meal Plans

Encore: Strawberry-Lime Glazed Doughnuts

Grilled Chicken Breasts with Grilled Peach, Corn and Avocado Salad

Pork Roll Pizza

Encore: Brown Sugar Chess Pie

Encore: Potaje de Garbanzos (Cuban Garbanzo Bean Stew)

Try Premium

Grilled Dinners for Two

This Week's Dinners

Encore: Strawberry-Lime Glazed Doughnuts

Grilled Chicken Breasts with Grilled Peach, Corn and Avocado Salad

Pork Roll Pizza

Encore: Brown Sugar Chess Pie

Encore: Potaje de Garbanzos (Cuban Garbanzo Bean Stew)

Catfish Fingers and Butter Bean Salad with Hot Sauce Vinaigrette

Broccolini and Provolone Grinders with Hot Pepper Mayo

Fish Dipping Sauce: Nuoc Cham

Categories:

Related Pages