Vietnamese Chili Sauce Recipe

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Vietnamese Chili Sauce
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Ingredients
6
Count
Nutrition
17
Calories
Total time
10
Minutes
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Ingredients:

  • 2 garlic cloves
  • 1/2 tsp sugar
  • 2 tbsp fish sauce
  • 1 tbsp vinegar
  • 1 tbsp lemon juice

Directions:

  1. Mince chilies and garlic finely and place in a mortar.
  2. Mash with the heel of a cleaver or pestle. Add sugar and stir until it dissolves.
  3. Add fish sauce, vinegar and lemon juice, stirring between each addition.
  4. Variations of this are found in Cambodia, Thailand and other Southeast Asian countries.
  5. You can fiddle with it endlessly.
  6. This is a good starting point. The proportions shown here produce what I consider a mildly warm dip.
  7. I generally use two to six times as many chilies, depending on their strength and how hot I want it.
  8. Variations: use green serrano chilies instead of dried red ones, lime juice instead of the lemon juice or palm sugar instead of granulated.
  9. If you make it in a food processor, don't over process. It should have small chunks of each ingredient rather than being a homogeneous liquid.
  10. The taste is sour and hot, very puckery. It's great with poached or steamed chicken, duck or game hens. Much better with basically bland dishes rather than something like curry which has it's own blend of spices.
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Nutrition Facts

Per ServingPer 100 g
Amount Per 1 Serving
Calories 17.11 Kcal (72 kJ)
Calories from fat 0.14 Kcal
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 0.02g 0%
Sodium 708.99mg 30%
Potassium 108.39mg 2%
Total Carbs 3.46g 1%
Sugars 1.92g 8%
Dietary Fiber 0.48g 2%
Protein 0.99g 2%
Vitamin C 34.4mg 57%
Iron 0.3mg 2%
Calcium 10.2mg 1%
Amount Per 100 g
Calories 41.88 Kcal (175 kJ)
Calories from fat 0.33 Kcal
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 0.04g 0%
Sodium 1735.59mg 30%
Potassium 265.34mg 2%
Total Carbs 8.47g 1%
Sugars 4.7g 8%
Dietary Fiber 1.18g 2%
Protein 2.42g 2%
Vitamin C 84.3mg 57%
Iron 0.8mg 2%
Calcium 24.9mg 1%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet. Your daily values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.
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Tastes

  • salty
  • savory
  • bitter
  • sweet
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Weightwatchers Points

  • 0.2
    Points
  • 0
    PointsPlus

Good Points

  • fat free,
  • saturated fat free,
  • cholesterol free

Bad Points

  • High in Sodium

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