Vietnamese Seafood Lime/Lemon, Salt & Pepper Dipping Sauce (Muoi Tieu Chanh)
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Vietnamese Seafood Lime, Salt & Pepper Dipping Sauce (Muoi Tieu Chanh)
It’s crab season! Woot! Woot!
I had so many ideas for the crabs but eventually, I simply steamed them for a quick and delicious (although bit messy) dinner. This served me well as I’m in the process of moving, selling my house, transferring kids to new schools, and settling in a place far from all things familiar. I haven’t had much time to cook so steamed crab over steamed white rice was more than perfect.
Vietnamese Seafood Lime, Salt & Pepper Dipping Sauce (Muoi Tieu Chanh)
My favorite part of steamed crab is the crab tomalley in the body cavity. Lots of people stray away from the crab tomalley … you know, that fatty, soft, yellow, orange, green substance when you pull the crab apart. Despite the awful look, that’s all flavor! I like to spread that creamy gooey goodness over rice for a more filling meal.
Vietnamese Seafood Lime, Salt & Pepper Dipping Sauce (Muoi Tieu Chanh)
For the dipping sauce, there’s no butter here. A traditional and simple Vietnamese dipping sauce for seafood is salt, pepper, and a squeeze of lime or lemon. I also like to add a bit of MSG-or-the-horrible-scientific-word-Monosodium-Glutamate-when-it-should-be-simply-called-seasoning-salt-because-the-taboo-behind-MSG-is-stupid for a more savory and well-rounded flavor.
Vietnamese Seafood Lime, Salt & Pepper Dipping Sauce (Muoi Tieu Chanh)
Note: Crab is naturally salty, so you don’t want to use a lot of salt for the dipping sauce. Also, get the good salt! Coarse sea salt is the best. Table salt like Morton should never be used in a dipping sauce or anywhere in the kitchen.
Recipe below. Enjoy!
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Vietnamese Seafood Lime/Lemon, Salt and Pepper Dipping Sauce (Muối Tiêu Chanh)
Ingredients
Instructions
- In a small sauce bowl, mix together all the ingredients.
- For a more elegant presentation, place salt and pepper in a sauce bowl along with fresh lime/lemon wedges so that the diner can add as much as they prefer.
Nutrition Facts
Calories
4Fat
0 gSat. Fat
0 gCarbs
1 gFiber
0 gNet carbs
1 gSugar
0 gProtein
0 gSodium
1163 mgCholesterol
0 mgThe values provided should be considered estimates. Factors such as brands purchased, natural variations in fresh ingredients, etc. will change the nutritional information in any recipe. To obtain accurate nutritional information for a recipe, use your preferred nutrition calculator to determine nutritional information with the actual ingredients and quantities used.
