Vietnamese-Garlic Hot Sauce

Name: Vietnamese-Garlic Hot Sauce
Prep time: 10 min
Total time: 10 min
Yield: about ¾ cup (200 ml)
Cuisine: Asian
Ingredients: 6 oz medium hot red chile stemmed (170 g) Chile; 6 cloves Garlic; 1/2 tsp (2 g) Sugar; 1/2 tsp (3 g) Salt; 1 1/2 tsp (7.5 ml) White Vinegar; 1–2 tablespoons as needed Water

Independent adaptation of a publicly published Andrea Nguyen recipe. Not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by Andrea Nguyen.

CONDIMENT · PHO, NOODLES & TABLE USE

A condiment for pho, noodles & table use.

Andrea Nguyen's garlic-chile sauce for pho and noodles.

On the jar

VIET CHILI

Method: blend
Yield: about ¾ cup
Ingredients: 6

Blender sauce. Cook from the recipe

Ratio

White Vinegar 8 mlWater 23 ml

Ingredients

Chile6 oz medium hot red chile stemmed (170 g)
Garlic6 cloves
Sugar1/2 tsp (2 g)
Salt1/2 tsp (3 g)
White Vinegar1 1/2 tsp (7.5 ml)
Water1–2 tablespoons as needed

Where it sits

One of 117 hot sauces in the catalog, with 6 ingredients against a median of 7.

The acid here is white vinegar. In this category chefs also reach for lime juice (19 recipes), rice vinegar (16), and cider vinegar (11).

Method

This sauce needs a blender. The jar is for storing it, not making it.
Combine measured ingredients and blend until smooth.
Taste and adjust salt and acid.

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Provenance

Vietnamese cookbook author based in Santa Cruz; James Beard Award for The Pho Cookbook. Teaching and published recipes-not a restaurant chef-cover nuoc cham, pho, and Viet technique.

Originally published as Tương Ớt (Vietnamese Chile Garlic Sauce).

Adapted from a Andrea Nguyen recipe (Andrea Nguyen / Viet World Kitchen).

FAQ

Can this go in a shake jar?

No. This one needs a blender or stove, so make it from this page. Jars only carry pour-and-shake sauces. Its companion jar is below.

What do the quantities mean?

This page lists the published recipe in household units (with metric in parentheses). On a jar, the printed lines, counts, and QR guide carry the jar-batch amounts. Follow the jar or this page, not a mix of both. Amounts in the jar’s ADD row are rounded to the nearest common spoon measure (T = tablespoon, t = teaspoon) so they can be read off the glass.

Where did this recipe come from?

Adapted from Andrea Nguyen / Viet World Kitchen (published as “Tương Ớt (Vietnamese Chile Garlic Sauce)”). Full citation lives in Provenance.

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