This is another easy sauce, it's not just for spring roll dipping. I also use it for cold noodles with some shredded cucumbers. Believe or not, it's quite delicious. Here is the Nước Tương Chấm recipe.
Peanut sauce made fresh from my kitchen |
Ingredients:
- 2 tbsp cooking oil
- 4 cloves garlic minced
- 5 tbsp hoisin sauce
- 4 tbsp smooth peanut butter
- 1/2 cup water
Directions:
- Heat pan on medium heat, then add oil and garlic.
- Sauté until lightly browned.
- Add the rest of the ingredients one by one and mix well.
- Turn the heat up to medium high and bring to a boil.
- Once it hits a boil immediately turn off the heat
- Use a whisk to blend till smooth.
- Remove from heat and chill, or serve right away.
- You can add some crushed peanuts on top before serving
- If you use sugar-free peanut butter, a tbsp of sugar would help sweeten it