Vegan Fish Sauce

Name: Vegan Fish Sauce
Yield: 3/4 cup
Ingredients: 3 nori sheets; 750 ml (3 cups) water; 1 tsp sugar; 50 ml (0.25 cups) soy sauce; black pepper; 2 tsp miso paste

A recipe by Isa Zucker

Fish sauce is often used in Asian food and also served at the table for use as a condiment. If you're an Asian food lover, you definitely came across with fish sauce! So if you don't have any restaurants near to you, that doesn't work with fish sauce; you have to cook by yourself! We show you how to prepare fish sauce without fish!

Vegan Fish Sauce

3/4 cup

1 hour

Ingredients

3 nori sheets
750 ml (3 cups) water
1 tsp sugar
50 ml (0.25 cups) soy sauce
black pepper
2 tsp miso paste

Instructions

Cut the nori sheets into strips. Add water and nori strips to a small pot and bring to a boil.
After 15 min. add 1 tsp sugar, a pinch of pepper, soy sauce and 2 tsp miso paste. Let simmer for another 5 minutes.
Filter fish sauce through a sieve. You should get 300 ml fish sauce in the end.
Return fish sauce into the pot and let simmer again for 20-30 min.
Allow to cool down completely.