The Sauce That Can Go With Any Seafood

I LOVE seafood. When I was two my father owned an oyster lease up near Tin Can Bay in Queensland. My family operated a seafood business selling fish, prawns, crabs and oysters to people staying in the caravan parks and accommodation in Rainbow Beach and Noosa. My Dad is an expert at shucking oysters, peeling prawns and filleting fish. Both my Mum and Dad make wonderful sauces to go with seafood (recipes to come) but I doubt they can beat this Asian style seafood sauce similar to the one I encountered in a small restaurant in Hobart, Tasmania.

I stumbled upon it on foodbuzz.com and it took my interest straight away. The fresh flavours of lime, chilli and cilantro mixed with garlic and fish sauce work really well together and a very different accompaniment to seafood than the Australian standard of Tartare sauce or cocktail sauce. Give it a try and use some of the leftovers (if there are any) as a dipping sauce.

The Sauce That Can Go With Any Seafood
as seen on I Just Love My Apron,
found on Foodbuzz

Recipe and photo by I Just Love My Apron

Seafood Sauce-Asian Style

Yield: about 1/2 cup

Ingredients:

3 tablespoons fish sauce
4 tablespoons sugar
3 limes, juice
4 big garlic cloves
1-1 1/2 tablespoons chopped ginger
1 tablespoon chopped cilantro
4 Thai Chilies (aka Bird's eye Chili)--Please adjust it to your preference

Directions:

• Add garlic, chili, ginger, and cilantro into a food processor. Pulse about 5 times until it's coarsely chopped.
• Add sugar, pulse 5 times until all mixed together
• Add fish sauce and lime juice, pulse 3 times. Sugar should be dissolved into the mixture.
• Taste to correction and adjust it to your preference.

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I spotted this in Green Poppy, a small store in Shellharbour Village that has a large range of epicurean delights and knick knacks. I spotted this Chipotle sauce, something that we have been looking for a while. It was de-licious on the beer-battered chips from the 'fish of the day' meal we ate at Ocean Beach hotel.

Green Poppy is just up the hill from the hotel and stocks the Maggie Beer line as well as the Pure Gelato range that I haven't seen since we left Keiraville. A treasure trove for those who like good food.