Sweet and Sour Dipping Sauce

Thai-style sweet and sour dipping sauce.

Perfect with fish cakes or for dipping spring - egg rolls and is ready to serve in just 10 minutes.

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Now, this isn't the red-coloured sweet and sour chilli sauce that's laden with ketchup, this is a clear dipping sauce but equally tasty - oh and spicy hot!

Thai Fish Sauce

Thai fish sauce (Nam Pla) is available in any good supermarket or over on Amazon - but don't buy it on Amazon unless you really have to as most are overpriced compared to the supermarket.

Ingredients in Sweet and Sour Dipping Sauce

• white wine vinegar

• caster sugar

• water

• Thai fish sauce 

• cucumber

• carrot

• onion

• birds eye chillies

What to serve with Sweet and Sour Dipping Sauce

• Thai fish cakes 

• Spring rolls or egg rolls 

• Sesame Prawn Toasts 

• Fried Won Ton Dumplings 

• Thai Steamed Dumplings

• Chinese Dim Sum 

How to make Sweet and Sour Dipping Sauce

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Yield: 4

Author: Jan Bennett

Sweet and Sour Dipping Sauce

Spicy Thai sweet and sour dipping sauce - perfect with Thai fishcakes.

Prep time: 3 MinCook time: 3 MinInactive time: 4 MinTotal time: 10 Min

Ingredients

• 50ml white wine vinegar
• 100g caster sugar
• 1½ tbsp water
• 2 teaspoons Thai fish sauce
• 2 inches (5 cm) piece of cucumber - seeds removed and diced very finely
• 2 inches (5 cm) carrot - diced very finely
• ½ a small onion - peeled and chopped very finely
• 2 red bird's eye chillies - sliced very thinly

Instructions

1. Gently heat the vinegar, sugar and water in a small pan until the sugar has dissolved.
2. Bring to the boil for 1 minute, then remove from the heat and leave to cool.
3. Stir in the fish sauce, cucumber, carrot, onion and chillies.
4. Pour into four small dipping saucers and serve.

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