A Delicious Summer Salad
I love a garden tomato salad with cucumber and onion, and this Vietnamese Tomato Salad doesn’t disappoint.
There a couple of ingredients that make this salad a little different from my usual Tomato, Cucumber and Onion Salad–fish sauce and fresh fennel.
What Makes this Salad Vietnamese
Fish sauce!
Fish sauce is a popular ingredient in Southeast Asian cuisine, especially in Vietnam. It is a briny, earthy-tasting fermented sauce made with anchovies and sea salt. It gives a recipe that hard-to-describe umami flavor. But it can quickly overpower a dish so use it sparingly. A little goes a long way.
The two brands I like best are Red Boat and Three Crabs….
