How to Cook Appetizing Nuoc Cham (Vietnamese Dipping Sauce/Dressing)

How to Cook Appetizing Nuoc Cham (Vietnamese Dipping Sauce/Dressing) Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Nuoc Cham (Vietnamese Dipping Sauce/Dressing). An All Purpose Dipping Sauce, Dressing & Condiment. This nuoc cham can play many roles at the dinner table. It's perfect for dipping summer rolls and cha gio (Vietnamese fried spring rolls), and it also makes a great dressing for rice noodle salads like Sarah's Vietnamese Rice Noodle Salad with Grilled Chicken.

It is the sauce used for the Grilled Vietnamese Jumbo Shrimp on Sugarcane Sticks that I posted.

Nuoc mam cham is a simple Vietnamese dipping sauce made with rice vinegar, fish sauce, and sweetened with sugar that does double duty as a tasty salad dressing.

Just as Italy is known for it's olive oil with balsamic vinegar, and Greece for it's tzatziki, every culture has a dipping sauce that makes it's signature mark.

You can cook Nuoc Cham (Vietnamese Dipping Sauce/Dressing) using 6 ingredients and 2 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Nuoc Cham (Vietnamese Dipping Sauce/Dressing)

1. Prepare 1/4 cup of fish sauce.

2. It’s 1/2 cup of + 2 Tablespoons water.

3. Prepare 3 Tablespoons of fresh lime or lemon juice.

4. It’s 1/4 cup of + 1 Tablespoon sugar.

5. You need 1-2 cloves of garlic, crushed.

6. You need of optional: chopped chilies, shallots (see notes for more).

Nuoc cham (nook CHAHM) is that sweet and salty Vietnamese style fish sauce based dipping sauce that seems too watery to be considered a sauce in the context of most other cuisines but totally works in Vietnamese dishes like cha gio (deep fried spring rolls) and bun (BOOHN) (cold noodle salad).

An authentic Nuoc Cham Recipe, a Vietnamese dressing and dipping sauce for salads, spring rolls, and rice noodle bowls.

While in Vietnam, I asked a cafe owner what the secret was to her Nuoc Cham.

Her short and powerful response was short and simple and stuck with me ever since — equal parts!

Nuoc Cham (Vietnamese Dipping Sauce/Dressing) step by step

1. Stir or whisk all ingredients together in a bowl until sugar is completely dissolved..

2. Thats it. Enjoy!.

For those of you unfamiliar with Nuoc Cham, it is a flavorful Vietnamese sauce used.

A sweet & tangy classic Vietnamese dipping sauce known as Nuoc Cham.

Made with fish sauce, fresh lime juice & sugar.

A delicious spring roll dipping sauce!.

I'm going to use the leftovers in a salad dressing.