Peanut Sauce

5 from 1 vote

This easy to make Peanut Sauce is smooth and creamy and perfect as a dipping sauce, salad dressing, for noodles, or with tofu satay or chicken satay. It’s a simple, 5 ingredient, no cook peanut sauce that you’ll find yourself making over and over again!

Course Appetizer, Sauce

Cuisine American

Keyword peanut, peanut butter, peanuts

Prep Time 5

Cook Time 0

Total Time 5

Servings servings

Calories 75kcal

Author Debi

Equipment

blender

Ingredients

1 cup roasted unsalted peanuts or ¾ cup natural peanut butter
1 ½ teaspoon toasted sesame oil
½ cup hot water
¼ cup canned unsweetened coconut milk light or regular
2 tablespoon honey or maple syrup
2 tablespoons soy sauce
¼ - ½ teaspoon Sriracha sauce optional

Instructions

Blend all ingredients in a blender until smooth.
If you prefer not to use a blender or food processor, place all ingredients in a medium saucepan, and heat over medium heat, stirring, until sauce is smooth.
Taste adding salt and pepper if desired.

Notes

Pro tip: if you open the can of coconut milk and it’s separated, where the coconut solids of coconut cream has floated to the top and the coconut water is at the bottom of the can. Simply pour the whole thing into a microwave safe bowl (I love those 2 cup Pyrex measuring cups for this), and microwave if for a minute or two. Give it a stir, and it’ll all come together.

Makes about 2 cups, which would be about 16 servings at 2 tablespoons each.

The sauce will thicken as it cools. Want it thicker, add a little more peanut butter. Thinner, add a little more water or coconut milk.

And, if the peanut butter is really thin and runny, you may want to leave the water out of the recipe until after you blend the whole thing. Then, add a little water if it needs thinning.

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