Name: Thai Sauce Base
Total time: 5 min
Cuisine: Thai
Ingredients: 3 tablespoons fish sauce; 1 tablespoon lime juice plus 1 teaspoon grated zest from 1 lime; 1 tablespoon light brown sugar; 1/8 teaspoon red pepper flakes

Why This Recipe Works

For our Thai-style sauce to pair with stir-fried vegetables, we wanted to find a way to give our dish powerful flavor while using ingredients already in the pantry. We found that a simple sauce base of fish sauce, lime juice and zest, brown sugar, and red pepper flakes gave vegetables the complex flavor we were looking for.