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Vietnamese Dipping Sauce

"A dipping sauce for rice rolls and for barbecued chicken, beef, pork or fish. Perfect for salads as is, or mix with a little vegetable oil. Make smaller quantities with lime or lemon juice but refrigerate as this will not last as the rice vinegar version does."

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Vietnamese Dipping Sauce

Why it works: Garlic and pepper are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and 27,090 recipes mention both. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Vietnamese Dipping Sauce

1 pint
Prep5 min

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By allrecipes. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Garlic + peppertop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together27,090 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  2. Vinegar + garlictop 11% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together9,115 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

  3. Rice + peppertop 12% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together8,379 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  4. Rice + garlictop 12% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together4,358 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  5. Vinegar + peppertop 14% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together27,814 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

Flavor stand-ins for the garlic

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (fish sauce, rice, vinegar, sugar, pepper):

  1. Turmericbetter flavor fit
  2. Cinnamonbetter flavor fit
  3. Corianderbetter flavor fit
  4. Garlicthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against fish sauce, rice, vinegar, sugar, pepper. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).