If you've never tried it before, nuoc cham is a classic Vietnamese condiment with a fish sauce base. That fish sauce funk gets complexified with a dimensional lineup of sugar, lime juice, soy sauce, ...

Heat the oil in a large sauté pan. Add the pork and cook until just cooked through, breaking the meat up in small pieces as you cook. Add the shallots and cook until soft. Quickly add the ginger and ...

Sohla El-Waylly's extraordinary new book, "Start Here: Instructions for Becoming a Better Cook," offers these fairly simple instructions for roasting, then broiling, a piece of salmon until the top is ...

Danilo “DJ” Tangalin, executive chef at JRDN, shared the recipe with us for his signature crispy Brussels sprouts in a Vietnamese Nuoc Cham sauce. He recommends it as an accompaniment for barbecue or ...

When I was young and my parents went out, my Vietnamese babysitter would make grilled lemongrass pork chops. I loved ripping the smoky meat from the bones with my teeth and licking the sticky bits off ...

These flavorful chops are great on their own or eaten with jasmine rice or thin vermicelli rice noodles. Refrigerate any leftover meat, then thinly slice and use it to stuff into sandwiches, summer ...

Cook’s notes: Fresh lemon grass is sold in produce sections of Asian markets and some supermarkets. It is also sold minced and frozen in some Asian markets. You can buy toasted sesame seeds in Asian ...

If nuoc cham, the all-purpose Vietnamese condiment, isn’t already in your bag of tricks (or your vocabulary—it’s pronounced nuke chom), it should be. Bright, tangy, and packed with umami, it enlivens ...

1.Make the marinade for the chicken by adding the lemongrass, soy sauce, brown sugar, rice vinegar, ginger, fish sauce, and water to a blender. Blend until smooth. Pour over the chicken in a zipper ...

It's an easy way to add both acidity and sweetness to a dish. Karla is a lifestyle journalist with more than 20 years of experience in food, drink and travel coverage. She has worked at Vogue, The New ...