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Some Popular Asian Chilli Sauces

By April Briggs


Asian food is world known to be spicy but tasty at the same time. People love Asian food and its condiments especially chilli sauces. These sauces are popular all around the world and can be used as a condiment or an ingredient to make a specific dish.

You may have heard the name Nam Chim, which is a Thai dipping sauce. It is a delicious blend of ingredients like lemon juice, chilli peppers, shrimp paste, fish sauce, garlic and sugar. This sauce is not very thick in consistency but it tastes absolutely authentic and delicious. It can be served with variety of different Thai dishes.

Nam Chim is typically presented with crude crisp vegetables or it can likewise be presented with barbecued fish and different sorts of meats. Rather than different sauces, this specific sauce must be set aside a few minutes so you won't discover it on the store racks. Individuals either make it in their homes or you could discover it in Asian eateries presented with mixed bag of diverse dishes.

Another great tasting dipping sauce is the Nuoc Cham which is a Vietnamese dipping sauce, this is a fish sauce based condiment. Although it isn't necessarily very spicy on its own but to add a touch of spice, chopped fresh green chillies are added to it. Its a mixture of vinegar, sugar water and fish sauce. In Vietnam, this is regarded as a dipping sauce that goes well with fried foods whereas in other countries like Singapore and Malaysia, it is used in cooking as well.

An Indonesian sauce that is known by different names in different Asian countries is the Sambal Oelek. The traditional Indonesian method was to use a stone mortar and crush all the ingredients together until they are all mashed up together. Nowadays, this sauce is made on a large scale by different manufacturers who use their own crushing techniques. The commonly used ingredients in this recipe are garlic, red peppers, salt, lime and sugar.

Indonesian sauces are hitting the business in a prominent way and another mixed bag that is turning into individuals' most loved is Sambal Teraso. Once more, all the fixings are pounded up to shape a glue utilizing a customary mortar and the fixings utilized are paste of shrimps, shallots, garlic, sugar limes and salt. The shrimp glue adds an exceptionally sharp taste to this sauce.

A well recognized sauce in almost every single Vietnamese restaurant is the Sriracha sauce. Although the ingredients used to make it are almost the same as Sambal Oelek but once all the ingredients are crushed down, they are then passed through a sieve to make the sauce look smoother in appearance and seedless. It is one of the most favorite sauces all around the world.

A favorite sauce which isn't extremely spicy in taste but it combines the sweet and spicy elements in a perfect way together. This condiment is none other than the sweet Thai chilli sauce. Once you have it you would want it again and again as it tastes so amazing and it goes well with variety of different kinds of food items. You could buy them easily from many different supermarkets.




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