{"id":3649,"slug":"vietnamese-fish-dipping-sauce-nuoc-mam-pha","title":"Vietnamese Fish Dipping Sauce (Nước mắm pha)","description":"Vietnamese fish sauce is a dipping sauce prepared for use at the table. It contains a more concentrated fish sauce of a similar name.","ingredients_raw":["¼ cups nước mắm (concentrated fish sauce)","1½ cups water","1 tbsp lemon juice","1 tbsp sugar","1 tsp minced garlic or about 2 cloves pressed through a garlic press","½ tsp sambal oelek (a type of hot chile sauce)"],"ingredients_norm":["nuoc mam","water","lemon juice","sugar","garlic or about cloves pressed through garlic press","sambal oelek"],"steps":["Mix all ingredients together.","If desired, bring to a boil that cannot be stirred down.","Cover and refrigerate."],"categories":["Vietnamese recipes","Recipes for sauces and condiments","Refrigerated recipes","Recipes using sugar","Recipes using chile paste and sauce","Recipes using fish sauce","Recipes using garlic","Recipes using lemon juice"],"prep_time_minutes":null,"cook_time_minutes":null,"total_time_minutes":10,"servings":"2 cups","yield_text":null,"difficulty":"very easy","source_name":"wikibooks","source_url":"https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:Vietnamese_Fish_Dipping_Sauce_(Nước_mắm_pha)","source_ref":"4519041","authors_url":"https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Cookbook:Vietnamese_Fish_Dipping_Sauce_(Nước_mắm_pha)&action=history","license":"CC BY-SA 4.0","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","extraction_confidence":null,"content_hash":"6b48e62ef3ce663d12c48299cf6cf69887a011ab0b722be48517b23146d0935a","created_at":"2026-08-02T14:43:30Z","updated_at":"2026-08-02T17:11:31Z","notice":null,"url":"https://recipecontextprotocol.com/recipes/vietnamese-fish-dipping-sauce-nuoc-mam-pha"}