Fish Sauce Lime Dressing

Name: Fish Sauce Lime Dressing
Prep time: 10 min
Total time: 10 min
Yield: about ½ cup (100 ml)
Cuisine: Asian
Ingredients: 2 Tbsp. fish sauce (30 ml) Fish Sauce; 1 Tbsp. plus 1½ tsp. fresh lime juice (22.5 ml) Lime Juice; 2 tsp. honey (10 ml) Honey; about 1 shallot (30 g) Shallot; 1 garlic clove, coarsely chopped Garlic; about 1½ chiles (3 g) Bird's Eye Chile; 2 Tbsp. vegetable oil (30 ml) Vegetable Oil

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

DRESSING · WATERMELON & FETA SALADS

In the published recipe, this is the dressing for watermelon, feta, and jalapeño salad.

Shepherd's fish sauce-lime dressing for watermelon salad.

On the jar

CITRUS-HONEY

Method: blend
Yield: about ½ cup
Ingredients: 7

Blender sauce. Cook from the recipe

Ratio

Fish Sauce 30 mlLime Juice 23 mlHoney 10 mlVegetable Oil 30 ml

Ingredients

Fish Sauce2 Tbsp. fish sauce (30 ml)
Lime Juice1 Tbsp. plus 1½ tsp. fresh lime juice (22.5 ml)
Honey2 tsp. honey (10 ml)
Shallotabout 1 shallot (30 g)
Garlic1 garlic clove, coarsely chopped
Bird's Eye Chileabout 1½ chiles (3 g)
Vegetable Oil2 Tbsp. vegetable oil (30 ml)

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

Houston chef of Underbelly and later Georgia James / UB Preserv lineage; James Beard Best Chef: Southwest 2014. Vietnamese–Korean diaspora flavors of Houston’s Gulf Coast pantry.

Originally published as Fish Sauce–Lime Dressing.

Adapted from a Chris Shepherd recipe (Chris Shepherd / Saveur (watermelon feta jalapeño salad)).

FAQ

Can this go in a shake jar?

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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 Chris Shepherd / Saveur (watermelon feta jalapeño salad) (published as “Fish Sauce–Lime Dressing”). Full citation lives in Provenance.

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