Toasted caramel dipping sauce

Name: Toasted caramel dipping sauce
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Laotian
Ingredients: 1 tbsp fried garlic oil (fry 2 chopped garlic cloves in 2 tbsp vegetable oil until nut-brown); 1 tbsp fried garlic oil (fry 2 chopped garlic cloves in 2 tbsp vegetable oil until nut-brown); 2-3 tbsp lime juice; 2 tsp toasted sesame seeds; 2 tbsp fish sauce; 1 tsp salt; 1 tbsp fried garlic oil (fry 2 chopped garlic cloves in 2 tbsp vegetable oil until nut-brown); 2 tbsp caster sugar; 4 mild red chillies, deseeded and chopped; 4 fat cloves garlic, chopped

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Food and Travels

By Alastair Hendy

Published 2004

About

Dipping and dunking material for wilted veg, fried slices of aubergine and/or sticky rice. The Malee restaurant, on the outskirts of Luang Prabang, serves it with a platter of floppy greens and stems of wilted sprouting broccoli - almost like home.

Ingredients

4 fat cloves garlic, chopped
4 mild red chillies, deseeded and chopped
1 tsp salt</

Asia
Laos
Sauce
Pescatarian
Gluten-free
South East Asia

Method

Pound the garlic and the chillies with the salt to make a paste, then add 1 tbsp water and the fish sauce and mix together. Put the caster sugar into a small saucepan, then melt on a gentle heat until it caramelizes. Allow to cool a little, then stir in the paste and the garlic oil, and boil up agai