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Nam Jim Seafood Dipping Sauce

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Nam Jim Seafood Dipping Sauce

Fiery Thai seafood dipping sauce with garlic, chilli, lime and coriander. Pounding the garlic and chilli in a mortar rather than chopping them releases their oils properly, giving the sauce a rounder, more intense heat.

Total time
10 min
Prep
10 min
Cook
0 min
Difficulty
easy
Cuisine
Thai
veganvegetariangluten-free

Ingredients

4 clovesgarlic
6Thai green chillies
3 tbspfish sauce or soy sauce
4 tbsplime juice
1 tbspsugar
1 handfulcoriander stems, finely chopped

Instructions

1

Pound garlic and chilli to a coarse paste in a mortar.

2

Add fish sauce, lime juice, sugar and coriander. Mix.

3

Taste and balance — should be salty, sour, spicy and slightly sweet.

4

Serve with grilled prawns, fish or oysters.

Nutrition (estimated)

Per serving, based on a standard 4-serving portion and standard nutrition references — not a lab or USDA-verified measurement. Some ingredients in this recipe couldn't be matched to a reference value, so treat this as a rough estimate.

Calories
20
Protein
0.3g
Fat
0g
Carbs
5.4g
Fiber
0.1g
Sodium
1mg

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