Vietnamese sweet and sour fish sauce

Ingredients: 4 garlic cloves, finely minced. 1 hot red chili, seeds removed, minced. 3 tablespoons lime juice. 4 tablespoons refined white sugar. 2/3 cup fish sauce. 1 cup hot water. Preparation: Follow the below steps: 1)      In a small bowl, add the garlic, chili, sugar, lime juice first. Stir them all.2)      Then add fish sauce. Continue stirring.  3)      Add the hot water and stir well until the sugar dissolves completely. Serving: -   It is commonly used as a dressing for salads, or dipping sauce. - You should use the hot water because...

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Bitter melon soup

 Ingredients: ( serves 5 people).   5 bitter melons . 1 tsp fish sauce.   1 tbs cooking oil. Salt, sugar, broth mix, ground pepper. 4 stalks scallions. Half cut in 2 inch-length, half finely chopped. 1 tbs chopped corianders. For pork stuffing: §  200 g ground lean pork. §  1 egg whites. §  1 dried wood ear mushroom, 2 inches in diameter, soaked in hot water about 20 minutes, drain and thinly cut. §  1 small bunch of bean thread noodles, soaked in warm tap water about 5 minutes, drain and cut  in 2 inch length. §  1 shallot, minced. §  1 tsp sesam oil. §  2 tsp fish sauce. §  1...

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