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    Vietnamese Salad Dressing Recipe

    Published: Mar 30, 2022 Modified: Dec 27, 2022 by Isabel Laessig

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    You can put together an easy and delicious Vietnamese Salad Dressing in just minutes using simple ingredients! This easy honey lime salad dressing with sesame oil and fish sauce is a beautiful complement to Asian salads of all kinds. It's ready in under 5 minutes!

    Vietnamese salad dressing in a small pitcher next to the salad
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    Easy Vietnamese Dressing

    When it comes to salad recipes, what makes it or breaks it for me is the dressing. One of my all-time favorites that my family asks me for time and time again is Steak Salad, which would not be as delicious without this incredible Vietnamese salad dressing recipe.

    This is the perfect dressing to go with Asian salad recipes of all kinds. It's a sesame dressing with honey, lime, and fish sauce, so you know it's bright, zesty, and full of flavor.

    Once you try this lime honey salad dressing, I know you're going to want to try it with all kinds of salads. I would love to hear about the dishes you pair it with!

    Close up of rice noodle beef salad with dressing in a small pitcher

    Vietnamese Dressing Ingredients

    • sesame oil
    • lime juice
    • fish sauce
    • 1 honey
    Mixing ingredients to make vietnamese salad dressing

    How to Make Vietnamese Salad Dressing

    1. Add sesame oil, juice from 1 lime, fish sauce, and 1 honey to a bowl.
    2. Mix until thoroughly combined.
    3. Use as a dressing over your favorite salad recipes or as a marinade for beef. Enjoy!

    Vietnamese Dressing FAQs

    What is Vietnamese Dressing?

    This easy Asian dressing recipe is a Vietnamese-style dressing perfect for vegetable salads, rice noodle salads, and steak salads. It would also be delicious on an Asian grilled chicken salad. Vietnamese dressing uses sesame oil, fish sauce, honey, and lime juice. Just mix the ingredients together and it's ready to go!

    What to serve with Vietnamese Salad Dressing

    Serve this sesame salad dressing with all kinds of homemade salad recipes or even as a dipping sauce for Asian recipes. You can even use this delicious dressing as a marinade for steak.

    Pouring vietnamese salad dressing over a steak rice noodle salad

    Recipe Variations

    • Fish sauce: For substitutes try soy sauce or tamari shoyu. Oyster sauce could also be used, but is thicker than fish sauce, so thin it down with a little water.
    • Sesame oil: Try walnut oil or peanut oil for a similar taste.
    Vietnamese steak salad with dressing on the side

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    Vietnamese salad dressing in a small pitcher next to the salad

    Vietnamese Salad Dressing

    Isabel Laessig
    Easy Vietnamese Salad Dressing ready in 5 minutes! Honey lime salad dressing with sesame oil and fish sauce is a complement to Asian salads of all kinds.
    4.87 from 15 votes
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    Prep Time 5 mins
    Total Time 5 mins
    Course Sauce
    Cuisine American, Vietnamese
    Servings 1
    Calories 333 kcal

    Equipment

    • Small bowl to mix ingredients

    Ingredients
      

    • 2 Tbsp. sesame oil
    • 1 lime for juice
    • 1 tsp. fish sauce
    • 1 Tbsp. honey

    Instructions
     

    • Add 2 Tbsp. sesame oil, juice from 1 lime, 1 tsp. fish sauce, and 1 Tbsp. honey to a bowl.
      Mixing ingredients to make vietnamese salad dressing
    • Mix until thoroughly combined, then use as a dressing over your favorite salad recipes or as a marinade for beef. Enjoy!
      Pouring vietnamese salad dressing over a steak rice noodle salad

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    Notes

    • You can easily make double the amount of dressing by doubling the ingredients. This makes enough dressing for about 1-2 salads.

    Nutrition

    Calories: 333kcal
    Keyword vietnamese dressing, vietnamese salad dressing
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    About Isabel Laessig

    Isabel Laessig, better known as Family Foodie and the founder of the Sunday Supper Movement, is passionate about food and family! She is the author of the Boujee Steak Cookbook, and hosts Family Foodie Friday on WTSP's Great Day Tampa Bay along with other television appearances to spread her mission of bringing Sunday Supper back around the family table in every home.

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