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How to make the best Thai Peanut Sauce ever!  This Peanut Sauce Recipe can be used as a dipping sauce, salad dressing, for peanut noodles or with chicken satay.
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How to make the best Thai Peanut Sauce ever!  This Peanut Sauce Recipe can be used as a dipping sauce, salad dressing, for peanut noodles or with chicken satay. | Easy peanut Sauce Recipe | Peanut Dipping Sauce for spring rolls | Peanut noodle sauce | Asian Peanut Sauce | Spicy Peanut Sauce | Peanut Dressing | Vegan Peanut Sauce | Gluten Free Peanut Sauce

How to make the best Thai Peanut Sauce ever!  This Peanut Sauce Recipe can be used as a dipping sauce, salad dressing, for peanut noodles or with chicken satay. | Easy peanut Sauce Recipe | Peanut Dipping Sauce for spring rolls | Peanut noodle sauce | Asian Peanut Sauce | Spicy Peanut Sauce | Peanut Dressing | Vegan Peanut Sauce | Gluten Free Peanut Sauce

How to make the best Thai Peanut Sauce ever!  This Peanut Sauce Recipe can be used as a dipping sauce, salad dressing, for peanut noodles or with chicken satay. | Easy peanut Sauce Recipe | Peanut Dipping Sauce for spring rolls | Peanut noodle sauce | Asian Peanut Sauce | Spicy Peanut Sauce | Peanut Dressing | Vegan Peanut Sauce | Gluten Free Peanut Sauce

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Hello friends!  Today I am sharing a recipe that I spent years perfecting.  This is my recipe for the Best Thai Peanut Sauce Ever.  I use this recipe as a peanut dipping sauce, as a dressing for salads, to make peanut noodles and anything else I think needs a punch of flavor from peanut sauce.
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How do you make Thai Peanut Sauce?

This recipe for Thai Peanut Sauce uses everyday ingredients that are easy to find at the grocery store.  Although many Thai peanut sauce recipes use coconut milk, this peanut sauce recipe does not.  All you need to do is whisk together peanut butter with soy sauce, rice vinegar, lime juice, chili garlic sauce, brown sugar, ginger, garlic and water.  This is a simple, no cook peanut sauce!How to make the best Thai Peanut Sauce ever!  This Peanut Sauce Recipe can be used as a dipping sauce, salad dressing, for peanut noodles or with chicken satay. | Easy peanut Sauce Recipe | Peanut Dipping Sauce for spring rolls | Peanut noodle sauce | Asian Peanut Sauce | Spicy Peanut Sauce | Peanut Dressing | Vegan Peanut Sauce | Gluten Free Peanut Sauce
A few notes about this recipe:

  • You can make this spicy peanut sauce by using more chili garlic sauce.  You can sub sriracha if you have it on hand, but I prefer the flavor of chili garlic sauce.
  • You can use honey instead of brown sugar, however I find that the flavor of the peanut sauce is better with brown sugar.
  • Use more water to thin the sauce and use as a peanut sauce dressing for salad.
  • What can you dip in this peanut sauce? Spring rolls, lettuce wraps, veggies, chicken, coconut shrimp, tofu.  You can use this peanut dipping sauce for just about anything!

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Best Ever Thai Peanut Sauce Recipe

4.57 from 311 votes
Prep 5 minutes
Total 5 minutes
Servings 1 Cups
How to make the best Thai Peanut Sauce ever!  This Peanut Sauce Recipe can be used as a dipping sauce, salad dressing, for peanut noodles or with chicken satay.

Ingredients 

Instructions 

  • Combine all ingredients except water.  Whisk to fully combine.
  • Add water, 1 tablespoon at a time, until desired consistency is reached. I normally use 2 tablespoons for a sauce and up to four if using it for a dressing. 

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Notes

I use unsweetened peanut butter.  If you use conventional peanut butter the sauce may turn out too sweet.  Try reducing the brown sugar to 1 tablespoon.

Nutrition

Serving: 0.25cups | Calories: 226kcal | Carbohydrates: 15g | Protein: 9g | Fat: 16g | Saturated Fat: 3g | Sodium: 540mg | Potassium: 233mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 9g | Vitamin C: 1.8mg | Calcium: 23mg | Iron: 0.8mg

Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.

Additional Info

Course: Dinner, sauce
Cuisine: Thai
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How to make the best Thai Peanut Sauce ever!  This Peanut Sauce Recipe can be used as a dipping sauce, salad dressing, for peanut noodles or with chicken satay. | Easy peanut Sauce Recipe | Peanut Dipping Sauce for spring rolls | Peanut noodle sauce | Asian Peanut Sauce | Spicy Peanut Sauce | Peanut Dressing | Vegan Peanut Sauce | Gluten Free Peanut Sauce

Hello! I’m Meghan.

I am so glad that you are here! I am the recipe developer, photographer, and writer here at my blog Fox and Briar. I am a passionate, self-taught home cook and believe that most things are better homemade and that good food doesn’t need to be complicated.

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559 Comments

  1. This looks delicious. I will try to make without sugar or sweetener to taste the results. Maybe with a little coconut milk for natural sweetness?

  2. I can’t see to find low sodium soy sauce, would regular soy sauce be okay to use? Would you recommend light or dark?

    1. Hi – I find regular soy sauce to be much saltier than low sodium, so I would reduce the amount and then adjust to taste. I would start with 1-2 teaspoons, then taste after everything else is added and add a little more soy sauce if you think it is needed.

  3. This was super tasty! I used regular organic peanut butter and I thinned it with more water than called for. Used this sauce over rice noodles with shrimp & vegetables! Yummy!

    1. Hi Emily, I just read in the older comments it can’t last up to 5 days refrigerated. I was wondering the same thing.

  4. 4 stars
    Good recipe. I find any Thai and Indonesian peanut sauces get better when heated up for a few minutes. The ingredients integrate better. Also making a day ahead makes the sauce better for hè same reason.

  5. 5 stars
    I was initially intimidated by the ingredient list, but I had everything on hand and it really didn’t take long to assemble
    I’m so glad I did because this is the best dipping sauce ever!

  6. I am in peanut sauce heaven! WOW!!! What a GREAT tasting sauce and easy peasy is a bonus! Thank you for this terrific share!

  7. 5 stars
    I love this recipe! It’s easy, delicious and with just the right amount of heat. I do add a tsp of sesame oil. Thank you

  8. It looks delish.
    Can I substitute the rice vinegar with something else? I cannot have vinegar. Thank you!

    1. Hi, you would want to use something else acidic. You could try adding more lime juice. But the vinegar adds really nice acidity to balance the other flavors so it won’t be quite the same.

    1. 5 stars
      SO GOOD! I didn’t realize we were out of peanut sauce until it was time to eat. I made this in 5 minutes. I did it very quickly, and it still tasted amazing. I know if I had actually taken my time it would be even better. We didn’t add any water which left it very thick but we still enjoyed it!

  9. 5 stars
    This was super easy and delicious! I opted to use full fat canned coconut milk instead of water and it turned out wonderfully. Thank you!

  10. 5 stars
    This was excellent! I am very picky and hesitated to make this. Don’t be like me; try this immediately. It was easy to make and tasted far, far better than I thought. Many thanks for a perfectly straight-up and easy, not to mention delicious sauce! Perfect with my Ahi Tuna, which was also perfectly cooked. Many thanks!

  11. 4 stars
    Left a comment, but I have to bump this up a notch. Comparing this to our local restaurant that has our favorite peanut sauce, this is very close to that one. Almost five stars. Thank you for this recipe. Also, I love that it is no cook.