Vietnamese Dipping Sauce

Ingredients

some restaurants have it but you might have to ask for it
250 gr pineapple
45 gr mam nem
4 garlic
2 chili pepper
14 gr sugar
45 ml lemon juice
7 ml rice vinegar
45 gr nuoc mam
325 ml variation if you are unable to find mam nem sauce
26 gr sugar
2 cans
60 gr nuoc mam
60 ml lemon juice

Instructions

tablespoons pineapple or water Combine the garlic, chile and sugar in a mortar and pestle and pound to a fine paste. Add the anchovies and mash to a very smooth paste. Stir in the fish sauce, lemon juice and pineapple juice. Mix well. Yield: about 1 cup. From "The Foods of Vietnam" by Nicole Rauthier. Stewart, Tabori & Chang. 1989.