Quick Shrimp and Sausage Skewers with Nuoc Cham
By @chef1
A light and flavorful snack featuring shrimp and chicken sausage skewers served with a tangy and refreshing Vietnamese-inspired dipping sauce.
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Ingredients
- ●1/2 pound Shrimp
- ●4 ounces Chicken Sausage
- ●1 tablespoon Olive Oil
- ●1 tablespoon Lemon or Lime Juice
- ●Pinch Red Pepper Flakes
- ●2 tablespoons Fish Sauce
- ●2 tablespoons Lime Juice
- ●1 tablespoon Sugar
- ●1 clove, minced Garlic
- ●1/4 teaspoon, minced (optional) Chili
Instructions
- 1Prepare the skewers: Cut the chicken sausage into bite-sized pieces. Thread the shrimp and sausage pieces onto skewers.
- 2Season and cook: Brush the skewers with olive oil and drizzle with lemon or lime juice. Sprinkle with red pepper flakes. Grill or pan-fry the skewers for 2-3 minutes per side, or until the shrimp is pink and the sausage is cooked through.
- 3Make the Nuoc Cham: In a small bowl, combine the fish sauce, lime juice, sugar, garlic, and chili (if using). Stir until the sugar is dissolved.
- 4Serve: Serve the skewers immediately with the Nuoc Cham dipping sauce.
Recipe details
- Cuisine
- Vietnamese-inspired
- Category
- Snack
- Preparation
- 30 minutes
Estimated total: 32 minutes. Planning estimate: stated duration ranges use their midpoint; standard preparation, heating and handling allowances are included. Overlapping tasks are counted once. Resting/chilling is included in total time.
How these estimates were calculated
- Initial setup: 5 min planning allowance (setup)
- Prepare ingredients (cut sausage, mince garlic/chili): 10 min planning allowance (meat_prep)
- Thread shrimp and sausage onto skewers: 5 min planning allowance (assemble)
- Preheat pan for cooking skewers: 3 min planning allowance (pan_preheat)
- Season skewers with oil, juice, and pepper flakes: 5 min planning allowance (simple_prep)
- Make Nuoc Cham sauce: 3 min planning allowance (mix)
- Serve skewers with Nuoc Cham: 2 min planning allowance (transfer)
- Cooking overlaps preparation or other cooking; a separate cooking subtotal is omitted.
- 2-3 minutes per side
- 2-3 minutes per side
- Using Italian style chicken sausage as a generic chicken sausage.
- Olive Oil: USDA tablespoon portion weight
- Lemon or Lime Juice: USDA tbsp portion weight
- Using bottled lemon juice for unit compatibility. Choosing lemon over lime as the first option.
- Red Pepper Flakes: USDA tsp portion weight
- Red Pepper Flakes: Standard pinch allowance: 1/16 tsp
- 'Pinch' is 1/16 tsp; no specific portion for this small amount, using null portion_id.
- Fish Sauce: USDA tbsp portion weight
- Lime Juice: USDA fl oz portion weight
- Sugar: USDA tsp portion weight
- Garlic: USDA clove portion weight
- Excludes optional Chili
- Shrimp: 226.8 g · USDA reference 175179
- Chicken Sausage: 113.4 g · USDA reference 173880
- Olive Oil: 13.5 g · USDA reference 171413
- Lemon or Lime Juice: 15 g · USDA reference 167748
- Red Pepper Flakes: 0.11 g · USDA reference 170932
- Fish Sauce: 36 g · USDA reference 174531
- Lime Juice: 30.8 g · USDA reference 168156
- Sugar: 12.6 g · USDA reference 169655
- Garlic: 3 g · USDA reference 169230
- Chili: optional ingredient excluded
shrimp · sausage skewers · nuoc cham · lime
Estimated nutrition per serving
298 calories · 36 g protein · 17.3 g carbohydrate · 9.9 g fat · 1803 mg sodium
Source and basis: USDA FoodData Central SR Legacy (2018), ingredient-based calculation per serving. Standard USDA portion weights; all listed ingredient mass included before cooking losses. Excludes optional Chili Nutrients with incomplete inputs omitted. Full ingredient matches and assumptions below.
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