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Epic Peanut Sauce

Last updated February 6, 2021. Originally posted February 17, 2020 By Jyothi Rajesh 20 Comments

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best tasting peanut sauce served with vegetables fingers with text overlay

That’s right, this peanut sauce is EPIC! It comes together in less than 5 minutes and uses just 8 ingredients. The sauce is perfect to be served so many ways. Use as salad dressing, drizzle over Asian dishes, as marinade or serve as dipping sauce.

best ever peanut sauce served with raw vegetables on wooden plate

You Need This Sauce in Your Life –

  • It’s smooth, creamy and has wonderful combination of salty, sweet, acidity and heat to it.
  • It tastes amazing, as it’s made with natural high quality ingredients!
  • It’s super easy to make, you’ll need only 8 ingredients and 5 minutes on clock to make this epic sauce.
  • This sauce is all-purpose-sauce. Drizzle it over your favorite salad to make boring salad interesting and delicious, drizzle it over zoodles/noodles, use it as dipping sauce for vegetables.
  • This sauce is jam packed with flavors, with fresh ginger-garlic-red chili paste and sesame oil. This sauce can make any boring dish pack with flavors and taste it’s best!
  • You got yourself a protein rich sauce (peanut butter is packed with proteins, right!).
  • It’s great make ahead sauce which stores well in fridge for about a week, giving you all reason to make a jar of sauce right away, a week of interesting delicious meal awaits with this sauce.
  • All above reasons will easily convince you – you DEFINITELY need this epic peanut sauce in your life! Run to your kitchen, get whisking!

Ingredients Needed

You’ll be surprised to know how such simple ingredients can make a sauce taste so good! To make the sauce you’ll need ingredients shown below for peanut sauce recipe –

all ingredients needed to make spicy peanut sauce arranged on white board

Make sure to use low sodium soy sauce. Tamari or coconut aminos can be substituted for soy sauce to make it gluten free.

Using sambal oelek gives this sauce authentic Thai taste. If sambal oelek isn’t easily available, use any red chili paste that will add kick or desired spiciness to the sauce.

How To Make Peanut Sauce

Step 1: Into a bowl add peanut butter, soy sauce, rice vinegar, sesame oil, honey.

all ingredients for peanut butter added to a bowl

Step 2: Grate ginger and garlic into the bowl.

grated ginger and garlic added along with all other ingredients to a bowl

Step 3: Whisk until everything comes together.

whisk sauce until everything comes together

Step 4: The sauce initially will be thick in consistency. You need to bring it to drizzle-able consistency. Add water or coconut water or coconut milk as required to thin down the sauce and make drizzle-able.

whisk sauce until everything comes together

Cook’s Tip: The consistency of the sauce can be adjusted according to how you want to use it. Drizzle-able consistency for salad dressing.

For dipping purpose, keep the sauce consistency slightly thick. It works great for dipping spring rolls, vegetables or chicken satay!

peanut sauce prepared in a bowl

Step 5: Serve sauce for dipping vegetables, or drizzle it over salads or Asian dishes. You can use this sauce as marinade too. Marinate tofu or tempeh in the sauce and make a meal out of it.

Don’t forget to serve this sauce for chicken satay. It pairs very well with satay!

Step 6: Leftover sauce can be stored in fridge for about a week.

What To Do With Peanut Butter Sauce

Like mentioned earlier, the sauce has many ways in which you can serve. It’s one of the most versatile sauce that can be used for –

Dipping – dipping vegetables or spring rolls

Garnish – for rice bowls, Asian noodles or stuffed potatoes

Dressing – drizzled over salads or noodles or rice. Over grilled chicken this sauce is fantastic!

Marinade – marinade tofu or tempeh. Tofu never tasted so good when it’s cooked with this marinade. No more bland and boring tofu!

Got Leftover?

Got leftover? No worries, you can easily store this homemade peanut butter sauce in fridge for about a week without any problem. Make sure you use clean, dry jars with tight lids to store the sauce.

It’s a great make ahead sauce. You can make it well in advance and store. If hosting a party plan ahead and make this sauce one or two days ahead and store it in fridge. Just before serving, remove the sauce from fridge and leave it on counter for 30 minutes.

For longer storage, you can freeze the sauce. Just divide the sauce into serve-able portions as required and freeze it in freezer friendly zip lock bags! This sauce can be frozen and used for up to 2 months.

To serve frozen sauce – remove the portion of sauce you want to use from freezer and thaw it in fridge overnight. Next day serve sauce with whatever meal you want to use it.

peanut sauce poured with a spoon in glass jar

Cook’s Tip To Make Very Best Peanut Butter Sauce

This sauce is versatile. You can alter the flavors and spices mentioned in the recipe to suit your taste buds. While I like mine just the way this recipe is, feel free to change and suit things to your taste buds!

  • Use natural unsweetened peanut butter and low sodium soy sauce for best results.
  • Do not use garlic or ginger powder in place of fresh ingredients. Nothing can be compared to the taste fresh ingredients gives. Use only freshly grated ginger and garlic.
  • To make spicy sauce, increase sambal oelek (red chili paste) in the recipe.
  • To make close to Thai sauce use coconut milk and sambal oelek in place of water and regular red chili paste.
  • Adjust the consistency of the sauce as desired. Make it drizzle-able for salads or dressings. Make it little thick for dipping purpose.
peanut sauce in a bowl with spoon

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epic peanut sauce served in bowl with vegetable fingers
5 from 7 votes

Epic Peanut Sauce

Jyothi Rajesh
This peanut sauce is EPIC! It comes together in less than 5 minutes and uses just 8 ingredients. The sauce is perfect to be served so many ways.
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Prep Time 5 mins
Course Sauces
Cuisine Asian
Servings 6 servings
Calories 216

Ingredients
  

  • ½ cup natural peanut butter unsweetened
  • â…“ cup soy sauce low sodium (use tamari or coconut aminos for vegan version)
  • 2 tablespoon rice vinegar
  • 2 tablespoon sesame oil
  • 3 tablespoon organic honey
  • 2 tablespoon red chili paste use sambal oelek for traditional Thai taste
  • 1 ½ teaspoon ginger grated
  • 2 medium sized garlic cloves grated
  • Water or coconut milk or coconut water to adjust the consistency of the sauce

Instructions
 

  • Into a bowl add peanut butter, soy sauce, rice vinegar, sesame oil, honey.
  • Grate ginger and garlic into the bowl.
  • Whisk until everything comes together.
  • The sauce initially will be thick in consistency. You need to bring it to drizzle-able consistency. Add water or coconut water or coconut milk as required to thin down the sauce and make drizzle-able.
    Cook’s Tip: The consistency of the sauce can be adjusted according to how you want to use it. Drizzle-able salad dressing can be a in pourable consistency.
  • For dipping purpose, keep the sauce consistency slightly thick. It works great for dipping spring rolls, vegetables or chicken satay!
  • Serve sauce for dipping vegetables, or drizzle it over salads or Asian dishes. You can use this sauce as marinade too. Marinate tofu or tempeh in the sauce and make a meal out of it.
  • Don’t forget to serve this sauce for chicken satay. It pairs very well with satay!
  • Leftover sauce can be stored in fridge for about a week.

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Notes

  • Use natural unsweetened peanut butter and low sodium soy sauce for best results.
  • Do not use garlic or ginger powder in place of fresh ingredients. Nothing can be compared to the taste fresh ingredients gives. Use only freshly grated ginger and garlic.
  • To make spicy sauce, increase sambal oelek (red chili paste) in the recipe.
  • To make close to Thai sauce use coconut milk and sambal oelek in place of water and regular red chili paste.
  • Adjust the consistency of the sauce as desired. Make it drizzle-able for salads or dressings. Make it little thick for dipping purpose.
 
Nutritional Info – Please keep in mind that nutritional information provided is only a rough estimate and can vary greatly based on products used.

Nutrition

Serving: 6servingsCalories: 216kcalCarbohydrates: 16gProtein: 7gFat: 16gSaturated Fat: 3gSodium: 820mgPotassium: 187mgFiber: 1gSugar: 11gVitamin A: 11IUVitamin C: 1mgCalcium: 14mgIron: 1mg
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  1. Igor says

    March 31, 2020 at 2:02 am

    I love how versatile this sauce is. Works as a dip, dressing, and even as a marinade? Wow! Thanks for the recipe!

    Reply
    • Jyothi Rajesh says

      March 31, 2020 at 7:53 pm

      Glad you liked it Igor

      Reply
  2. Natalie says

    March 30, 2020 at 6:22 pm

    5 stars
    I love peanut sauce. Flavor is absolutely amazing. I really like your recipe because you added chili. I must make this and give it a try. Looks really delicious and flavorful.

    Reply
    • Jyothi Rajesh says

      March 30, 2020 at 9:33 pm

      Thank you Natalie

      Reply
  3. Marcel Corbeanu says

    March 30, 2020 at 6:34 am

    I haven’t made peanut sauce before but this recipe looks interesting. Maybe I should give it a try …

    Reply
    • Jyothi Rajesh says

      March 30, 2020 at 6:17 pm

      Do give it a try, you’ll enjoy it so many ways

      Reply
  4. Sara says

    March 30, 2020 at 5:35 am

    5 stars
    This recipe for peanut sauce is definitely going into our rotation now! We adore Asian food, and I think this would be perfect to toss with some chicken, or noodles, or anything! I love it!

    Reply
    • Jyothi Rajesh says

      March 30, 2020 at 6:17 pm

      Glad you liked it Sara

      Reply
  5. Loreto and Nicoletta Nardelli says

    March 29, 2020 at 7:20 pm

    5 stars
    Salty, sweet, and acidic, sound good to me! This peanut sauce looks so smooth and delectable and it will be versatile for many uses. Thank you!

    Reply
    • Jyothi Rajesh says

      March 30, 2020 at 12:40 am

      Glad you liked it! Thank you

      Reply
  6. Paige says

    March 29, 2020 at 5:48 am

    5 stars
    I ADORE peanut sauce, and this one is going on my list of things to make. So good on so many things!

    Reply
    • Jyothi Rajesh says

      March 30, 2020 at 12:40 am

      It absolutely is delicious! Thank you

      Reply
  7. Ben says

    March 27, 2020 at 6:03 pm

    5 stars
    Peanut sauce is one of my favorite Asian flavors. I’ve never tried making my own, though. This should be awesome.

    Reply
    • Jyothi Rajesh says

      March 27, 2020 at 9:43 pm

      Do give it a try Ben

      Reply
  8. Erin says

    March 27, 2020 at 8:12 am

    5 stars
    We cook a lot of Asian meals over here and we love peanut sauce so much! I love that this recipe can be gluten free and dairy free. Such a plus! My kids would dip everything in this sauce if they could.

    Reply
    • Jyothi Rajesh says

      March 27, 2020 at 4:15 pm

      Glad you liked the recipe Erin

      Reply
  9. Paula Montenegro says

    March 27, 2020 at 3:37 am

    5 stars
    This went straight to my Pinterest make now! board! It’s gorgeous and doesn’t have a ton of sugar. Love it!

    Reply
    • Jyothi Rajesh says

      March 27, 2020 at 4:15 pm

      Glad you liked it Paula

      Reply
  10. Amy Liu Dong says

    March 26, 2020 at 11:31 am

    I have never tried to make a peanut sauce and this one look so delicious.

    Reply
    • Jyothi Rajesh says

      March 26, 2020 at 6:35 pm

      Thank you

      Reply

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