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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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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.
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!
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!
Best Ever Thai Peanut Sauce Recipe
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup peanut butter natural, unsweetened
- 2 tablespoons low sodium soy sauce use tamari or coconut aminos for gluten free
- 1 tablespoon rice vinegar
- 2 tablespoons brown sugar
- 2 teaspoons chili garlic sauce more or less to taste
- 1 tablespoon fresh lime juice
- 3 garlic cloves pressed or grated
- 1 tablespoon ginger root grated
- 2-4 tablespoons warm water
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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Nutrition
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Made this last night to go with some lettuce wraps – so good!
Yay, I am so happy to hear that!
I substituted Beyond Equator 5 seed butter for the peanut butter (food allergy in my house). It was fabulous.
So glad to hear that!
This is the best recipe for peanut sauce I have found. It really hits the spot. Perfectly balanced. It’s so good I had to write a review- my first ever!
Thank you so much for leaving a review Faye! I’m so happy you loved it!
can i sub lemon juice for the lime?
Hi Alethea – I haven’t tried that so I can’t be sure. I think lemon juice is more acidic so it might throw off the flavor. You can try it without the lime juice, taste, then add just a small amount of lemon juice if you think it needs some acidity.
Winner! Added some hoisin sauce and served over Persian cucumbers and green onions with some leftover lemongrass chicken.
Yay! That sounds delicious!
Excellent flavor!
SO glad you loved it!
excellent! I do add coconut milk to this peanut sauce when I am making a rice bowl. Drizzle it over the top of veggies and rice and it is delicious!
Wonderful! So glad you love it!
I made this yummy sauce tonight and used for noodles and veggie stir fry. I added 2tablespoons of sesame oil and the zest of a lime and thinned with 1/2 cup of pasta water. Simply delicious. Topped with scallions and sesame seeds. A new family favorite!
I’m so happy to hear that!
So good! I added one tablespoon on hoisin sauce to give it an extra umph. This is a keeper.
Yay, I’m so glad you loved it!
made this but with chunky peanut butter so yummy
So glad you loved it Carmen!
Easy and delicious.Poured it over chicken veggie stirfry. Family loved!
Wonderful! So happy to hear that!
This peanut sauce is indeed THE BEST! I’ve made it several times, and I dip spring rolls in it or use it as a salad dressing for carrots, peppers, cucumber, mint, cilantro, etc. In both cases, I thin it out a bit more with water for easier dipping or dressing.
Delicious! It fully deserves its “THE BEST” title.
YAY! I am so happy to hear that Kelly!
This was delicious! I’ve been craving trying to make my own spring rolls with peanut sauce and this was superb success!
My one note, as my fiance has celiac, is that one of the tags at the top of the recipe says “Gluten Free” but soy sauce often times has wheat in it! So tricky that gluten! I didn’t even think of it until after I’d made the sauce! Oh well! One batch for me, and maybe one batch for him using coconut aminos instead of soy sauce as that’s what I have on hand. 🙂
Thank you for the recipe! This was so so good!
Hi Jenae – thank you for pointing that out, I will be sure to make a note in the recipe about that. I’m so glad you loved the peanut sauce!
You can easily find wheat (gluten)-free tamari soy sauce. I buy it at Whole Foods.
It is very delicious! I added a bit of sesame oil as well, which was just what it needed for my tastebuds. Thanks for sharing!
Love sesame oil, great idea!
I’ve been a big fan of peanut sauce For many years since my first introduction to Indonesian rijsttaffel. This recipe is for Thai peanut sauce but still very close – and delicious! Easy to make, and we’ll be making again soon.
So happy you enjoyed it, Jeff!
This peanut sauce is fantastic!!! The blended flavor burst in your mouth! This is a keeper! Thank you!
I’m so happy to hear that Suzanne!
I’ve always wanted to make peanut sauce and googled it and this was the first recipe I got. tried it and it was amazing! Sooo damn good!!!! And easy!!!
So happy to hear that Chad!
Wow – this is really good! Will definitely make it again.
So happy you loved it!
This was a delicious sauce. I doubled the recipe and served it on chicken one night. The following night I mixed the peanut sauce in with soba noodles, left over chicken and cut up carrots & celery. Yum.
So happy you loved it Tracy!
I am going to try this tonight for my Asian Chicken Lettuce wraps How long will it last in the fridge?
Hi Carlo – I always use mine right away, but I did a quick google search and the internet says homemade peanut sauce should last up to one week in the fridge. It may separate in the fridge since it is kind of an emulsion. I would keep it in a sealed container in the fridge for best results.