This sauce is perfect for any seafood lover. Simply boil, grill, or steam your seafood and serve this sauce on the side. You can also enjoy this sauce with any type of grilled meats.
It’s a delicious and easy-to-make sauce with so many different flavors: sweet, sour, spicy savory and best of all, rich from the condensed milk. All you need to do is blend everything together in a food processor until smooth and you’re done!
The original sauce uses A LOT of green Thai green chili peppers. Since I don’t have a very high tolerance for spicy food, I replace some of the green chili peppers with green bell peppers, mainly for color.
Recipe below. Enjoy!
Vietnamese Green Seafood Sauce with Condensed Milk (Muoi Ot Xanh Sua Dac Cham Hai San)
- Total Time: 5 minutes
- Yield: 1 cup 1x
Description
A creamy, refreshing, and spicy sauce for seafood and grilled meats, this popular Vietnamese green sauce is made primarily with green chili peppers and sweetened condensed milk. This recipe makes about one cup.
Ingredients
- 5 Thai green chili peppers
- 1 green bell pepper or another less spicy green pepper
- 3 lime leaves
- 2 limes
- 3/4 teaspoon salt
- 3 tablespoons sweetened condensed milk
- 1/4 teaspoon MSG (optional)
Instructions
- Prep the ingredients: Slice the green chili peppers lengthwise and remove the seeds. Cut the bell peppers in half, discard the stem tops, and remove the seeds and roughly chop. Remove the thick spines from the lime leaves, if any. Slice the leaves into thin strips.
- Combine and serve: Add the green chilies, bell peppers, lime leaves, juice of lime, salt, sweetened condensed milk, and MSG to a food processor and blend until smooth. Serve and enjoy with your choice of cooked seafood and grilled meats.
- Prep Time: 5 minutes
- Category: condiment
- Method: Food Processor
- Cuisine: asian, vietnamese
