In Thailand, seafood always comes with Seafood dipping sauce - Nam Jim Seafood. It is a perfect sauce for your favorite seafood dishes including fish, shrimps, prawn, crabs, oysters and others. The flavor of seafood sauce is a little sour, salty, sweet and very spicy. Learn how to make seafood sauce by yourself.
For those who want to make a simple seafood dipping sauce with no need of many ingredients, we offer a seafood dipping sauce below.
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We will reveal the delicious seafood sauce that you can make by yourself. This seafood sauce is medium spicy, has full flavor of garlic and is also suitable for making without a blender.
Prep Time: 5 minutes
Cook Time: 5 minutes
Serving: 1/2 cup
Ingredients: Seafood Dipping Sauce
5 red or green chilies
5 cloves of garlic, peeled
3 tablespoons of fish sauce
3 tablespoons of lime juice or vinegar
2 teaspoons of sugar or palm sugar
Instructions: How to make Seafood Dipping Sauce
1. Pound garlic and chili thoroughly.
2. Add sugar, fish sauce, and lemon. You can add vinegar instead of lemon juice or you can add palm sugar for sweetness instead of sugar or add salt instead of fish sauce.
3. Combine all the ingredients and add the desired flavor. You might see that some seafood sauce looks very green, it’s because only green chili is added.
4. Serve with your chosen seafood dish and enjoy!
Tips
This homemade seafood sauce can be kept for 3 days in the container with the lid in the refrigerator.
Seafood Sauce is not only served together with grilled seafood as you can eat it with steamed meatballs or chicken. Our recipe of Boiled Chicken in Fish Sauce also tastes better when dipping in it.
