Fish Sauce-Lime Dressing

Name: Fish Sauce-Lime Dressing
Prep time: 5 min
Total time: 5 min
Yield: about ½ cup (130 ml)
Cuisine: Asian
Ingredients: ¼ cup fish sauce (60 ml) Fish Sauce; ¼ cup lime juice (60 ml) Lime Juice; 1 tsp lime zest (5 ml) Lime Zest; about 2½ chiles (5 g) Thai Chile; optional 2 tsp palm/brown sugar (10 ml) Palm Sugar

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

DRESSING · CHICKEN & NOODLE SALADS

In the published recipe, this is the dressing for Thai chicken salad.

Martínez's fish sauce-lime dressing for a Thai chicken salad.

On the jar

FISH LIME

Method: shake
Yield: about ½ cup
Ingredients: 5
Jar batch: 2.05× recipe

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Ratio

FISH SAUCE 60 mlLIME JUICE 60 ml

Ingredients

Fish Sauce¼ cup fish sauce (60 ml)
Lime Juice¼ cup lime juice (60 ml)
Lime Zest1 tsp lime zest (5 ml)
Thai Chileabout 2½ chiles (5 g)
Palm Sugaroptional 2 tsp palm/brown sugar (10 ml)

Method

Pour to the lines in order (bottom → top): FISH SAUCE, LIME JUICE.
Shake-to-line (dashed marks): add PALM SUGAR. Spoon in, shake, and top up until the settled level reaches each dashed line.
Add by count: 2 THAI CHILES.
Season to finish: LIME ZEST (about 2 tsp).
Cap the jar and shake until emulsified.

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Provenance

Recipe developer and former Bon Appétit senior food editor based in Mazatlán; his cookbook Mi Cocina won a 2023 James Beard award.

Originally published as Fish Sauce–Lime Dressing (Wondee Siam).

Adapted from a Rick Martínez recipe (Rick Martínez / Food52 (Thai chicken salad)).

FAQ

Can this go in a shake jar?

Yes. Its liquids pour to printed fill-lines, so it can be one of the sauces on a PantryFlex jar.

What do the quantities mean?

This page lists the published recipe in household units (with metric in parentheses). A PantryFlex jar makes a 2.05× batch of it. The jar's printed lines, counts, and QR guide are already scaled to match, so 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 Rick Martínez / Food52 (Thai chicken salad) (published as “Fish Sauce–Lime Dressing (Wondee Siam)”). Full citation lives in Provenance.

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