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Im Daen. I share Modern Mediterranean recipes that are nutritious, an absolute joy to eat and inspired by my Italian and Spanish heritage. I love pasta, I'm a garlic girl and olive oil runs through my veins. Learn More...

I'm Daen. I share scrumptiously delicious recipes that are nutritious, an absolute joy to eat and inspired by my Italian and Spanish heritage. I love pasta, I'm a garlic girl and olive oil runs through my veins. Thanks for popping in!

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Our olive oils come from two family-owned olive groves in Greece. The Kotsovolos family in the beautiful mountain village of Christianoupolis provide our Early Harvest EVOO. And their cousins, the Hinaris family in the coastal town of Kyprissia supply our Private Reserve EVOO. Both families have been in this business for more than 100 years and continue to follow the same old methods of handpicking and pressing the olives for best quality.

Every good Vietnamese cook needs to master this dipping sauce. It's used in many dishes to bring all the elements together. However, it can be easily botched, especially if your taste buds are not well versed in balancing subtle nuances between sour, sweet, salty and spicy. Additionally, flavoring with fish sauce is tough if you're not used to working with it everyday, not to mention the fact that fish sauce qualities differ from brand to brand and sometimes from lot to lot!

Growing up, I was given the task of being our family's dipping saucier. We are a serious group of eaters prone to chiding the cook for poor food preparation. So out of self-preservation, I devised the method below that's served me well over the years. Rather than mix everything together at once, I've broken up the process to simplify matters for the taste buds.

You have many choices of fish sauce these days. Many people prefer brands such as Viet Huong's Three Crabs or Flying Lion, which are made in a light Vietnamese style, rather than the heavier Thai or Filipino styles. Nowadays, there are artisanal options from Vietnam, such as Red Boat and Son fish sauce too! For a general discussion, take a look at my guide on how to buy and use fish sauce. If you shop at regular supermarkets, check out my supermarket fish sauce tasting notes to help you shop and select a brand. Many people wonder how to keep fish sauce around, so I also have tips on how to store fish sauce.

Interested in vegetarian or vegan takes? Check the vegetarian fish sauce dipping sauce recipe (nuoc cham chay). If you have my 2023 book, Ever-Green Vietnamese, use the vegan fish sauce recipe on page 29 to make excellent nuoc mam chay!

Is it usual to use vinegar in the preparation of nuoc cham? Probably 90% of the nuoc cham I have tried in Hong Kong, New Zealand, or the States and Canada have vinegar in it. Another optional addition is very finely julienned carrot to thickness of just a little thicker than human hair.

Aside: I'm now aware it is traditionally not served with pho, but many Chinese in HK mistaken nuoc cham as a condiment for pho and use it as a dipping for the beef slices. I even at one point used nuoc cham as

All over lot of restaurants nowadays use vinegar instead of lime juice for nuoc cham as it's more consistent, cheaper and convenient. The flavor is flat by comparison, and the sauce is devoid of the lime pulp, which lends great body. The carrot is a beautiful addition and sometimes, it adds a certain tang and obvious crunch too. Usually, there's a jar of pickled shredded (finely julienned) carrot and/or daikon around, you add it to nuoc cham for interest. I often find that it gets in the way, th

I bought your book last fall and finally made this recipe. I was wondering if it is the same sauce used for the dish bun cha, which I tried to recreate for the first time. I followed your instructions in the book, for grinding the garlic and chili in a mortar and "smearing it" ; then added the sugar (even I had raw sugar, the big chunky brown raw sugar) and that worked fine. I didn't realize the differences between fish sauce, the kind I used (3 crabs) was really strong and dark so I ended up ad

Don't know if it's that my tastebuds got used to something different used here in San Francisco's Vietnamese restaurants (though during my trip to Vietnam I had the same flavor experience), but I like my nuoc cham with about half that amount of water for bun salads in particular. It can always be watered down but harder to make it more intensely flavored

Excellent base recipe!

I made nuoc cham from this recipe and although it tasted fantastic, the dipping sauce is cloudy compared with the posted pictures or the nuoc cham restaurant. I wonder where I go wrong..I think it is due to the lime juice...Would you please help?

Hi. I was wondering if anyone could help me figure out a vietnamese dessert I once ate as a child. I remember that it was sweet, wrapped in banana leaf (I think) and it was refrigerated. There was no meat in the middle like some of the recipes I've seen and again, it was very sweet. I remember sticky rice in it though. I've been to vietnamese grocery stores and have bought several packages of sweet rice wrapped in banana leaves but have not found that dessert. I know that some of these banan

I've recently learned how to make this from my mom. She, on the other hand, never actually measures anything. She just puts things in and stops when there's "enough," so learning how much of each ingredient have been a long process.

I've gotten very close to her nuoc cham. It is similar to yours but is much stronger, and it seems that most restaurants use this recipe (which we consider flat tasting).

I'd say that the main difference between her recipe and this one is that her's is more of fla

I am so glad I found this site. I just made the chili-garlic paste with a mixture of I think red jalapenos and one yellow habanero. I think I may have been too cautious. I tried the recipe that is cooked and just as you said it had a sweet note but definitely some heat, not overpowering or as hot as I expected though. I probably could have left more of the seeds or stem in tack to pick up the heat.

I proceeded to then make the Nuoc Cham recipe above. I didn't use quite as much sugar because I

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this tastes awful, nothing like the one at the restaurant i ate it at.

the minute i put the fish sauce in, it went kablooey. tasted like salty-sweet fish. i didnt even know how to adjust this because it tasted so bad.

Fell in love with this sauce when I lived in Minneapolis, where we had many good, inexpensive Vietnamese restaurants. Now I live in Pennsylvania, with no good Vietnamese food. Glad to find this recipe and website. (It must drive you crazy that some people think its the same as Chinese food.)

I love introduce the Viet foods to my friends. However, some of them don't like the smell of nước nắm. Last summer, when I went back to Si Gn, a Chef in a local restaurant told me to cook the sauce and show me the sample. It had the subtle savory flavor and less fishy and looked more viscous. He recommended me to use nước mắm nhĩ anh frend coconut juice for my dipping sauce. But when I made this some weeks ago, it didn't work out. The outcome was not only salty but also bitter. An

Would anyone happen to know why my nuoc cham taste/smell really fishy? I used the Three Crab brand fish sauce but I don't know how long I've had it...definitely more than 3 months. I store it in the back of the cabinet; it's pretty cool here in Portland, OR. Is it because my fish sauce is "too old?" I was told that fish sauce can be stored forever like soy sauce as long as they don't mold. I'm more experienced with soy sauce since I'm Chinese. Though older soy sauce never got me or my family sic

this recipe is SO GOOD! i searched far and wide on the internet for nuoc cham recipes and the majority of them all tell you to put equal parts fish sauce to water which does not result in the taste i wanted, but this recipe is perfect! and you can always tweak it to your personal preferences

Thank you for this recipe. I used half lime juice and half rice vinegar -- I had a tiny, skinny lime. Anthony Bourdain's death brought me here: I watched his episode of Parts Unknown on Vietnam, had a hankering for bun cha and, living in the Vietnamese food wasteland that is northern NJ, decided to make my own.

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