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Thai Dipping Sauce for Seafood
Steamed Muscles With Thai Dipping Sauce
This Thai dipping sauce is a great recipe for social events. It can be used as an appetizer or just as finger food for game night or when you have a movie. It can also be a main course as we used it for brunch while we watched a movie with one of my wife's friends.
One thing I have learned since having a Thai wife is that her friends always have food and recipes on their minds. Our friend Ahm who works with Mod spent the night on our couch Thanksgiving night and brought food. She made Steamed Muscles and octopus and which we had with red wine. It was amazing.
Here is her recipe with a few things altered for health benefits. If you can find a low sodium fish sauce and seasoning salt those are better. Otherwise, leave out the seasoning salt if you have blood pressure issues. The garlic, peppers, limes alone pack a lot of flavor so you can alter the other ingredients without loosing too much flavor.
The fish sauce has a bit of sodium and the oyster sauce has some sugars in it so if you have concerns you will want to think about replacing those ingredients. Those sauces give you the liquid which makes it a sauce so they are kind of important. If you figure out a way to replace the fish sauce please let us know in the comments section below.
Ingredients:
- 2 tbsp. fish sauce
- 1 tbsp. stevia
- 3-4 limes
- 3 Thai peppers
- ½ piece of garlic
- ¼ teaspoon Knorr reduced sodium seasoning salt
- 2 teaspoon oyster sauce
Directions:
- Pound the garlic and Thai peppers in a mortar and pestle until it is a paste
- Add the pepper and garlic to a bowl with the rest of the ingredients and wisk
- Serve with your choice of protein and vegetables, by the way this sauce goes very well with all kinds of seafood. Enjoy!
Thai dipping sauce
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Green Apples with Chili Fish Sauce (แอ๊ปเปิ้ลเขียวแจ่วปลาร้า)
- 2 tbsp. fish sauce
- 1 tbsp. stevia
- 3-4 limes
- 3 Thai peppers
- ½ piece of garlic
- ¼ teaspoon Knorr reduced sodium seasoning salt
- 2 teaspoon oyster sauce
- Pound the garlic and Thai peppers in a mortar and pestle until it is a paste
- Add the pepper and garlic to a bowl with the rest of the ingredients and wisk
- Serve with your choice of protein and vegetables, by the way this sauce goes very well with all kinds of seafood. Enjoy!
Daczar says
That is not Thai sauce sorry, but it really isn't. That's more of a Cambodian sauce. It's crazy how most of the Thai food or culture is taken from Cambodian but they don't get the recognition like Thai's do. They've have adopted so much of Cambodian culture and food that instead of putting khmer, they put Thai in front of everything. It's bad enough already that they still taking land from them but stop taking what's left from them. ..their pride.
Mod Shed says
All of the cuisine in this world have the influences on each other. It doesn't surprise me if this recipe appears on the Cambodian cuisine because most of Southeast Asia countries have pretty much same ingredients since we share the tropical weather and living close to each other. By the way, I do not comfortable to talk anything about the land. It is more on the politic side. It is not what we focus on this blog.
Joe alv says
First time in this blog. Dacsar is not really talking about the dish but rather making a political statement about two countries. Agree with Mod Shed All cousins have influence from other countries which enrich the enjoyment of food.
Mod Shed says
Hi Joe.
Thanks and Bon appetit.