Description
Our favorite peanut sauce recipe! We’d drizzle this on just about anything–try it for chicken satay, spring rolls, stir fry, noodles, salads, lettuce wraps, and more!
Ingredients
Scale
- 1/2 cup natural peanut butter (I prefer creamy for peanut sauce)
- 3-5 Tablespoons lite coconut milk (can sub full-fat coconut milk or water)
- 2 Tablespoons reduced-sodium gluten-free tamari, coconut aminos or soy sauce
- 2 Tablespoon pure maple syrup
- 1 Tablespoon fresh lime juice (or rice vinegar)
Instructions
- Combine. In a small bowl or jar, combine peanut butter, 3 Tbsp. coconut milk, the tamari, the pure maple syrup, and the lime juice.
- Blend. Use an immersion blender to blend the sauce until you reach a smooth, creamy consistency, adding more coconut milk as needed, to thin it out to your desired consistency. (You can absolutely do this with a whisk, it’ll just take longer to blend!)
- Set Aside Or Chill. Cover the peanut sauce and set aside while you cook your chicken. If making the peanut sauce in advance, store in the refrigerator up to 1 week.
Notes
- Natural Peanut Butter. While you can use conventional peanut butter (like JIF, Skippy, etc.), we highly recommend natural peanut butter that contains JUST peanuts or peanuts and salt. Natural peanut butter is thinner, and runnier, which works better for peanut sauce. If you use traditional peanut butter, you’ll likely need more liquid, and may prefer less sweetener.
- Tamari. We recommend reduced sodium gluten-free tamari to help moderate the salt content AND keep this peanut sauce gluten-free. Coconut aminos is another great choice! If you’re not gluten-free, feel free to use low sodium soy sauce.
- Blending Tips. An immersion blender is the easiest and most effective way to blend peanut sauce, since the high speeds help emulsify the mixture more quickly than a whisk. Don’t have one? You can try it in a regular blender, a food processor, or just whisk-whisk-whisk until the mixture comes together.
- Prep Time: 5 minutes
- Category: Sauce
- Method: Blender
- Cuisine: Thai