Epic Peanut Sauce

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.

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 –

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.

Step 2: Grate ginger and garlic into the bowl.

Step 3: Whisk 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.

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!

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.

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.

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