Vietnamese Dipping Sauce (Nước Chấm)

Name: Vietnamese Dipping Sauce (Nước Chấm)
Yield: Serves 4 (makes 1 cup)
Cuisine: Asian, Vietnamese
Ingredients: 3 tablespoons, sugar, divided; 1 small, Thai chile, stemmed and minced; 1 , garlic clove, minced; 2/3 cup, hot water; 5 tablespoons, fish sauce; 1/4 cup, lime juice (2 limes)

Asian
Vietnamese
Sauces

Appears in Cook's Illustrated September/October 2019

Nước chấm—a salty-sour-sweet combination of fish sauce, lime juice, and sugar that's diluted with water and often seasoned with garlic and/or chile—is essential to Vietnamese cooking.

SERVES 4 (makes 1 cup)

TIME 10 minutes

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