vendredi 12 juin 2015

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.

It goes well with fresh vegetables as well as grilled meat or fish dishes. You will not find this sauce in the supermarkets because it has to be made fresh every time because if you make it and try to conserve the sauce, it wouldn't taste the same at all. Usually people make it in their homes whenever they need it or it is served in restaurants, freshly made.

Another extraordinary tasting plunging sauce is known as the Nuoc Cham, s a Vietnamese plunging sauce, made with fish sauce. Despite the fact that it isn't fundamentally extremely hot naturally however to include a touch of flavor, green chillies are used in it. It is a blend of vinegar, sugar and fish sauce.

Sambal Oelek, which was originally derived from Indonesia is now popular all around the world. There are many countries widely manufacturing bottle versions of their own. Traditionally, all ingredients are mashed up in a stone mortar but the production or large scale means, the ingredients are mashed up in big machines. The common ingredients used include red peppers, garlic, lime, sugar and salt.

Sambal Teraso us another Indonesian variety that is gaining popularity because of its great taste. Traditional method of making it is the same as Sambal Oelek but the ingredients used are a bit different. You will need shallots, shrimp paste. Sugar, salt, lemon juice and garlic. The difference in taste is identifiable because shrimp paste adds a very delicate taste to it.

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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