Thai Seafood Sauce

Nam Jim Talay

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Preparation info
  • Makes

    1

    cup
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Family Thai: Bringing the Flavors of Thailand Home

By Arnold Myint

Published 2025

  • About

If it were up to us Thais, every Las Vegas buffet or seafood boil restaurant would have nam jim talay available. This is the seafood sauce you’ll find at both beachside Thai restaurants in the most touristy places in Thailand and local holes-in-the-wall that specialize in grilled giant river prawns. It’s the go-to sauce to add to seafood. And when I say seafood, I mean every type of seafood—prawns, shrimp, cockles, squid, fish, lobster, oysters—however it is prepared, whether it is grilled,