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

📋Epic Peanut Sauce

This peanut sauce is EPIC! You'll need 8 pantry ingredients and come together in just 5 minutes. The sauce is perfect to be served in so many ways, salad dressing, drizzling over Asian dishes, as a marinade, or as a dipping sauce.
Prep Time5 minutes
Course: Sauces
Cuisine: Asian
Servings: 6 servings
Calories: 161kcal

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
  • 1 teaspoon sesame oil (toasted sesame oil is better than untoasted)
  • 1 tablespoon honey
  • 2 tablespoons red chili paste use sambal oelek for a 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

  • In a bowl add peanut butter, soy sauce, rice vinegar, sesame oil, and 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 it 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 an in-pourable consistency. For dipping purposes, keep the sauce consistency slightly thick. It works great for dipping spring rolls, vegetables, or chicken satay!
  • Serve sauce as a dip for vegetable sticks, spring rolls, or chicken satay. Drizzle it over salads bowls, and lettuce wraps. You can use this sauce as a marinade for tofu or tempeh.
  • Leftover sauce can be stored in the fridge for about a week.

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Notes

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

Nutrition

Serving: 6servings | Calories: 161kcal | Carbohydrates: 10g | Protein: 6g | Fat: 12g | Saturated Fat: 2g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 3g | Monounsaturated Fat: 6g | Sodium: 814mg | Potassium: 176mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 6g | Vitamin A: 11IU | Vitamin C: 1mg | Calcium: 17mg | Iron: 1mg