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Vietnamese Dipping Sauce
Vietnamese Dipping Sauce
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From the EatingWell Kitchen
This tangy Vietnamese dipping sauce—perfect for spring rolls—is flavored with lime juice, fish sauce, garlic and serrano pepper.
- By: EatingWell Test Kitchen
Ingredients 8 servings
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- 3 tablespoons lime juice
- 3 tablespoons water
- 2 tablespoons fish sauce (see Tip)
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 1 clove garlic, minced
- 1 serrano pepper, minced, or ½ teaspoon crushed red pepper
- 1 scallion, minced (optional)
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- Stir together lime juice, water, fish sauce, sugar, garlic, serrano (or crushed red pepper) and scallion (if using) in a small bowl until the sugar is dissolved.
- Tip: Fish sauce is a pungent Southeast Asian condiment made from salted, fermented fish. Find it in the Asian-food section of well-stocked supermarkets and at Asian specialty markets. We use Thai Kitchen fish sauce, lower in sodium than other brands (1,190 mg per tablespoon), in our recipe testing and nutritional analyses.
- Serving size: 1 tablespoon
- Per serving: 13 calories; 0 g fat(0 g sat); 0 g fiber; 3 g carbohydrates; 1 g protein; 1 mcg folate; 0 mg cholesterol; 2 g sugars; 10 IU vitamin A; 2 mg vitamin C; 2 mg calcium; 0 mg iron; 298 mg sodium; 11 mg potassium
- Carbohydrate Servings: 0
- Exchanges: Free food
