Vietnamese marinade

It’s spring, we’re thinking about barbecuing. And what will be the first thing cooked on that clean barbecue? Something marinated in my Vietnamese marinade which is actually Ray McVinnie’s - I have been making a version of it after he served a Vietnamese barbecue many years ago.

Ingredients

100 ml	Fish sauce
100 ml	Lime juice
3 cloves	Garlic, crushed (Main)
2 Tbsp	Sambal oelek, *
4 Tbsp	Ginger juice, **
3 Tbsp	Brown sugar

Directions

Mix all ingredients together and pour over your choice of chicken pieces, beef steaks, fish fillets or seafood and leave to marinate for a few hours before cooking on the barbecue.

Cook's notes

*Sambal oelek is a ground chilli paste. Look for it at Asian grocers and some supermarkets

**Ginger juice is made by grating ginger and squeezing out the juice into a bowl