How do I make vietnamese fish sauce?!


Question: I have tried multiple recipes but none are what I like. I prefer a sweet tasting sauce with the carrots without a lot of chilis. It's usually orange in color. Help me!


Answers: I have tried multiple recipes but none are what I like. I prefer a sweet tasting sauce with the carrots without a lot of chilis. It's usually orange in color. Help me!

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Vietnamese Dipping Sauce (Nuoc Cham)
In Vietnam, people use this sauce much like we use salt and pepper – drizzled over almost everything.

Based on amber-colored Asian fish sauce, it's lightly sweet, sour, salty, and hot – and very easy to make. Use it as a dip or splash it over noodles, salads, seafood, and meats.

NOTES: You can make this sauce up to 1 day ahead; cover and chill.

MAKES: About 1 1/2 cups

1/2 cup Asian fish sauce (nuoc mam or nam pla)
1/4 cup rice vinegar
1/4 cup lime juice
2 tablespoons sugar
2 cloves garlic, peeled and minced

1 to 1 1/2 teaspoons minced hot red chili, such as Thai, serrano, jalape?o, or Fresno, or Asian red chili paste

In a bowl, mix 1/2 cup water, fish sauce, vinegar, lime juice, sugar, and garlic. Add minced chili to taste.

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You're talking about nuoc mam. You can buy it at oriental grocery stores. The carrots and chile pepper don't come in the sauce as it is sold. You add them. You can also buy the chile sauce in the oriental grocery.

just buy it at the store!!!

Nuoc mam is fermented salted fish. They make it in villages there, as a cottage industry, so it can't be difficult. I've never made it, but I make kimchi by a similar process; lactofermentation. The secrets are to keep it covered in salted water, exclude the air and avoid using containers made of metal or treated timber. I use glass jars for my kimchi. Several other countries make a similar product. Thailand has nam pla and Sweden has surstr?ming.

hey!
i'm so happy u asked! i'm wondering???? are u vietnamese???
i'm so glad u care about vietnamese cuisine, most vietnamese modern generation people are to up in their Social live and most other people just know vietnam through the war!

well i'm just a teenager and i don't know

there was a guy who told u a recipe but my mom uses vinegar instead of lemon/lime juice

by the way... if ur not vietnamese and ur trying it for the first time... good luck... its very pungeant

i love it!!!! hope u do to

You're talking about nuoc cham, which is a dipping sauce.

Fish sauce is quite different.





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