Instruction for making homemade fish sauce

vietnamese fish sauce

Vietnamese homemade fish sauce

 Ingredients

1/2 cup of original fish sauce (can buy it in the supermarket),

 4 cloves garlic pressed, 2 red chili, peppers, minced

3 teaspoons sugar, 1½ tablespoons fresh lime juice in order to taste, 1 cup of water

 Implementation

1. Use mortar and pestle to mash the garlic, chili

 2. Add peppers and sugar into a paste

 3. Add the fish sauce, water and lime juice

 4. Blend well.

It is ready to use now or you can put it in a small bottle, seal it tightly and refrigerate until whenever you want.

It is best to use in 1 day.

 Vietnamese usually make fish sauce to reduce the salinity in original fish sauce and taste more differently with the mix of garlic, chili and lime juice.

(Translated into English by What The Food Team)