When I entertain, I often do chicken wings and 5-6 different sauces for people to dip (my version of a fondue party, if you must). Problem is that when I go for a chinese/asian theme, All sauces are pretty yellow/red/brown/black and there is no good color contrast on the table. I would like a green sauce to break the monotone.
Green Curry is not well liked among my regular crowd.
The only thing I can think of (short of using the food coloring suggestion) is a ginger-scallion dipping sauce. It’s not completely green tho, and you don’t usually eat it in the kind of amounts I think of when I think of fondue. But, it does go with chicken. In fact, that’s the only application I’m aware of.
The only recipes I can find on the web seem rather complicated. The way I know it, it’s just a bunch of minced ginger and scallion in some oil, but then again I’m not much of a cook.
Ok, sorry, I guess that’s not really very helpful at all.
It doesn’t have to be day-glo parrot green. Just anything to break the yellow to black pallette. (and one step above just garnishing yellow sauces with scallions which helps a bit, btw)
heck, I guess even white sauces would help.
The ginger scallion I found sounds easy and tasty, not too greenish, though since it uses soy sauce which would darken it. Worth a shot, though.
I’m thinking you could run with that Indian mint sauce that they always serve with those crispy sesame tortilla thingees in Indian restaurants. It’s real green and tastes pretty good too.
hey, that looks awesome (specially when you consider I have some fresh mint just sitting there). Will see if I can try it tomorrow and report the results.
If a digression is allowed:
What do you have against food coloring? A sweet and sour sauce I liked used catsup for the red; I substituted red dye #2 ans it looks much nicer.
You sound as rabid as I become over Miracle Whip.
Also, just thinking off the top of my head, even if they don’t like green curry, I’m sure you can improvise a nice sauce from: lime, green chiles, lemongrass, garlic, galangal (or ginger), and fish sauce. Perhaps some kaffir lime leaves and cilantro as well.
Darn! Just missed the edit deadline. What I meant to add:
edit: Got yet another idea. You can always use the green jalapeno Tabasco sauce and cut it with margarine or butter (think Buffalo wings) for a great wing sauce. Add garlic and /or any green herb that you think would make sense for additional greenness. I bet this would work really well. If you want to be extra adventurous, try jalapeno Tabasco, lime, cilantro, butter. I don’t see any reason why it wouldn’t work.