Vietnamese
Nuoc Mam Gung (Ginger Fish Sauce)
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Nuoc Mam Gung (Ginger Fish Sauce) is Vietnamese home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the condiment and the fresh side. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
The quantities follow this count.
How to cook it
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Mince the garlic, grate the ginger finely, and thinly slice the chili.
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Stir the sugar into the fish sauce and lime juice until dissolved.
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Stir in the ginger, garlic, and chili so they float through the sauce.
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Taste and adjust, adding more lime for brightness or sugar for balance.
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Serve in a small saucer alongside boiled pork or poached chicken; this is a thicker, more pungent dip than the everyday nuoc cham.
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Serve it with
A Vietnamese dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Nuoc Mam Gung (Ginger Fish Sauce), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The dish at the centre
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The cooked vegetable
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Something to sip
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What it is eaten with
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Nuoc Mam Gung (Ginger Fish Sauce) carries fish. It is free of the remaining 9 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | No | |
| Gluten | No | |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | Yes | Che Dau Xanh (Mung Bean Sweet Soup) |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Estimated, per serving
- Calories
- 20 kcal
- Protein
- 1 g
- Carbs
- 3 g
- Fat
- 0 g
- Fiber
- 0 g
- Sugar
- 3 g
- Sodium
- 650 mg
- Saturated fat
- 0 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Nuoc Mam Gung (Ginger Fish Sauce) takes about 5 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
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