Sweet and Sour Dipping Sauce

Name: Sweet and Sour Dipping Sauce
Yield: makes about 1/2 cup
Ingredients: 1 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes; 1/4 cup fresh lime juice (about 2 limes); 1 tablespoon minced garlic; 3 tablespoons sugar; 1/4 cup Asian fish sauce (such as nam pla)

January 26, 2012

Recipe information

Yield
makes about 1/2 cup

Ingredients

1 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes

1/4 cup fresh lime juice (about 2 limes)

1 tablespoon minced garlic

3 tablespoons sugar

1/4 cup Asian fish sauce (such as nam pla)

Preparation

Soak the red pepper flakes in the lime juice for 4 minutes. Add the garlic, sugar, and fish sauce; stir until the sugar is dissolved.

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Reprinted with permission from The Martha Stewart Living Cookbook: The New Classics by Martha Stewart Living Magazine, copyright © 2007. Published by Clarkson Potter, a division of The Crown Publishing Group. Buy the full book from Amazon.

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