Phu Quoc Seafood Sauce

Name: Phu Quoc Seafood Sauce (Sốt Dồ Biển Phú Quốc)
Yield: Makes about 125 ml (4 fl oz/½ cup)
Cuisine: Vietnam
Ingredients: 4 red Asian shallots, finely chopped; 1 teaspoon sugar; 2 tablespoons chopped dill; 1 bird’s eye chilli, finely chopped; ¼ teaspoon ground turmeric; juice of ½ lime; 2 spring onions (scallions), thinly sliced; 3 tablespoons olive oil; ½ lemongrass stem, white part only, finely chopped; 1 garlic clove, finely chopped; 2 cm (¾ inch) piece of ginger, peeled and finely chopped; 2 teaspoons fish sauce

Sốt Dồ Biển Phú Quốc

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Songs of Sapa

By Luke Nguyen

Published 2009

About

Ingredients

3 tablespoons olive oil
1 garlic clove, finely chopped
2 cm (

Asia
Vietnam
Condiment
Sauce
Pescatarian
Gluten-free
Southeast Asia

Method

Heat the olive oil in a saucepan over medium heat. Add the garlic, ginger, lemongrass, spring onions and shallots and fry until fragrant. Reduce the heat to low and add the fish sauce, sugar, chilli and turmeric and stir for 1 minute, then add the lime juice and dill. Remove from the heat and set aside to cool. Store in a jar in the fridge for up to 1 week.