The dipping sauce determines up to 80% of the success of the dish. Whether you're having boiled snails, steamed snails, or stir-fried snails, the snail dipping sauce is the soul that elevates the dish to be even more delicious and enticing. Let's explore 3 ways to make snail dipping sauce with lemongrass chili, fermented fish sauce, and chili soy sauce with simple and quick recipes.
1. How to Make Lemongrass Chili Snail Dipping Sauce
Ingredients for Crafting Delicious Snail Dipping Sauce
- 3 tablespoons fish sauce
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 1 stalk lemongrass
- 1 piece ginger
- 3 - 5 kumquats
- 2 chili peppers
- 5 lime leaves
Step-by-Step Guide to Making Lemongrass Chili Snail Dipping Sauce
Step 1: Finely chop lemongrass, ginger, chili peppers, and lime leaves. Squeeze juice from 3 kumquats and slice 1 kumquat thinly.
Step 2: Put 2 tablespoons of sugar in a bowl, then add ginger and crush with a pestle. Once ginger is mashed, add lemongrass and continue crushing. Finally, add chopped chili peppers and mix well.

Step 3: Add 3 tablespoons of fish sauce, 3 tablespoons of warm water or boiling water to the mixture from step 2, then squeeze the prepared kumquat in. Finally, add thinly sliced lime leaves and thinly sliced tamarind, stir well and you'll have a delicious snail dipping sauce

2. Recipe for Fermented Fish Sauce Snail Dipping Sauce
Fermented fish sauce snail dipping sauce is a concentrated dipping sauce, harmonizing various spices combined with tasty cornstarch that enhances the flavor when eaten with steamed snails, equally captivating as the commonly used lemongrass chili dipping sauce.
Ingredients for Making Fermented Fish Sauce Snail Dipping Sauce
- 3 horn peppers, 3 chili peppers
- Peeled garlic
- Fish sauce, salt, sugar, cooled boiled water
- Cornstarch, rice vinegar
Proportion for Making Fermented Fish Sauce Snail Dipping Sauce
Step 1: Wash peppers, peel garlic, and finely chop.
Step 2: Dissolve 1/3 tablespoon of cornstarch in 1 tablespoon of cooled boiled water and stir well.
Step 3: Mix according to the ratio of 4 tablespoons cooled boiled water, 1 tablespoon minced garlic chili, 2 tablespoons vinegar, 1 tablespoon sugar, 1/4 tablespoon salt, 2 tablespoons fish sauce and stir well. Then, pour the entire mixture onto the stove, simmer over low heat, stirring continuously until all ingredients dissolve.
Step 4: When the fish sauce boils, add the dissolved cornstarch mixture, stir well by hand. When the mixture thickens and becomes slightly sticky, turn off the heat. That completes the fermented fish sauce dipping sauce.

3. Recipe for Chili Soy Sauce Snail Dipping Sauce
This chili soy sauce dipping sauce is very popular in the North, with the aroma of kumquat and the strong spicy taste of chili, perfect for dipping snails.
Ingredients for Making Delicious Snail Dipping Fish Sauce
- 1 tablespoon tasty snail dipping fish sauce
- 1 tablespoon chili soy sauce
- 1 tablespoon kumquat juice
- 1 tablespoon golden sugar
- 2 tablespoons filtered water
- Minced chili, minced ginger, finely chopped lime leaves
- Sliced round lemongrass, sliced kumquat
Simple Recipe for Making Snail Dipping Fish Sauce
Step 1: Mix the fish sauce, filtered water, golden sugar, chili soy sauce, lemongrass, ginger, and chili together, stir until the sugar dissolves completely.

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