Thai-Style Sweet Chili Dipping Sauce

A classic sweet, spicy, and savory accompaniment for grilled meats.

Thai Dried Chili–Vinegar Dipping Sauce

With plenty of heat and a vinegar kick, this Thai-inspired dipping sauce is a perfect match for rich and fatty meat dishes as well as seafood.

Thai Dried Chili Dipping Sauce

This smoky, salty and sour dipping sauce goes well with all kinds of meat that have been barely seasoned and not covered with sauce. Try this with grilled chicken (marinated in not much more than some fish sauce and a bit of sugar) and steamed Thai sticky rice.

Thai Sweet Chili Ketchup

Thai sweet chili sauce is good with so many things, and this ketchup creates a similar balance between sugar and chili flakes that's just as versatile.

Spicy Shrimp and Green Apple Salad

A quick salad of shrimp, apples, tomatoes, and herbs in a fish sauce and lime juice dressing, this can be served as a stand-alone salad or, as the Thai people often do, with rice as an entrée.

Thai-Style Dipping Sauce

To make this amazing dipping sauce for dumplings, we start with the classic combination of Asian fish sauce, lime juice, and sugar, then punch it up with raw garlic, fresh cilantro, and hot chile flakes. The flavors blend seamlessly into a sauce that's versatile enough to dress a salad, marinate a steak, and, yes, coat your dumplings.

Andy Ricker's Naam Cheuam Naam Taan Piip (Palm Sugar Simple Syrup)

Use this earthy, caramel-y syrup in Andy Ricker's Phat Thai from his new Pok Pok cookbook.

Thai Sweet Chili Sauce

This sauce is sweet, sticky, and good on absolutely (okay, almost) everything.

Andy Ricker's Naam Jim Kai (Sweet chile dipping sauce)

This sweet chile dipping sauce is great on Andy Ricker's Whole Roasted Young Chicken from his new Pok Pok cookbook.

Apple Sabzi (Apple Cooked in Mild Spices With Coconut)

Apple Sabzi looks like a vegetable dish until you bite it and discover the sweet taste of apple and the wonderful flavor of coconut oil.