Nam Jim Dipping Sauce
Nam Jim Dipping Sauce takes about 10 min and serves 6. It needs 6 ingredients: fish sauce, lime, palm sugar, bird's eye chilli, garlic, and coriander. It is rated easy to make.
- Total time
- 10 min
- Serves
- 6
- Difficulty
- Easy
Ingredients
- 4 tbsp fish sauce
- juice of 4 limes
- 40 g palm sugar
- 3 bird's eye chillies
- 3 garlic cloves
- a handful of coriander, stalks included
Method
Pound, do not chop
Pound the chillies and garlic with a pinch of salt in a mortar until broken down. Pounding ruptures the cells and releases far more heat and aroma than a knife does.
Use the coriander stalks
Add the coriander stalks and pound them in too, then chop the leaves and keep them back. The stalks carry more flavour than the leaves and would otherwise be thrown away.
Balance the liquids
Stir in the fish sauce, lime juice and palm sugar until the sugar dissolves. It should hit sour first, then salty, then sweet, then hot — and if any one of those dominates, adjust rather than accepting it.
Rest, then finish
Leave it 15 minutes for the garlic to mellow, then stir in the coriander leaves just before serving. Made too far ahead the herbs go black and the garlic turns harsh.
15 min
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