vietnamese caramel sauce

Name: Vietnamese Caramel Sauce
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 15 min
Cuisine: Vietnamese
Ingredients: 1 pound(s) light brown palm sugar; 1 1/4 cup(s) fish sauce good quality i use red boat

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barbara lentz

beulah, MI

Updated on May 30, 2020

This sauce is used in many Vietnamese dishes. You can use regular sugar but it can be a little trickier if you do let the sugar get to a caramel color and don't stir it while it's browning. The light brown palm sugar comes in round hard pieces about the size of a cookie but thicker. You can get them at Asian markets.

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prep time 5 Min

cook time 15 Min

method Stove Top

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Ingredients

1 pound light brown palm sugar
1 1/4 cups fish sauce good quality i use red boat

How To Make vietnamese caramel sauce

Step 1

Chop the light brown palm sugar into pieces. In a heavy bottom pot gently melt the sugar over medium low stirring frequently. It will take about 10 to 15 minutes.

Step 2

When the sugar is lump free and completely melted and just beginning to boil remove it from the heat. Very slowly add the fish sauce whisking continuously. Careful it will bubble furiously.
Step 3

Let it cool and you can store it in an airtight container at room temp for 3 months.
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