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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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Best one I’ve tried!
So glad to hear that!
Excellent recipe, perfect combo of sweet/salty/acid/heat. Thank you!
AMAZING sauce I absolutely love it! I did reduce the brown sugar to 1 TBS because I don’t have unsweetened peanut butter. I use this for a dipping sauce for my homemade spring rolls but can’t wait to try it with other recipes!!
I use regular peanut butter too, but I took a shortcut the other day and used crunchy PB so I didn’t have to add chopped nuts, which I have been adding. Worked like a charm! I’ve made this several times it’s so good!
Call it whatever you like, “Thai/Thai Inspired”
this sauce is FABULOUS! As a dip or tossed with noodles it can’t be beat. Thank you for sharing!
So glad you love the sauce!
Delicious and easy. I used Siracha and white vinegar (just because it was what I had) and it was wonderful. Thank you.
So glad you liked it!
I made this sauce……thank you. And it can not be faulted…….. It is just WOW.
So glad you loved it!
This sauce is good but it’s not Thai. Stop posting Asian foods that you know nothing about, or just call them “inspired”.
Hi Stephanie, thanks for taking the time to comment. You are correct, this is not an authentic Thai peanut sauce as I am not Thai. However, it is certainly inspired by Thai peanut sauce. I will be updating the post to make that more clear.
Really, Karen? This is what bothers you?
This is hilarious, Maria. Karen too. I will now whip up a batch and I really don’t care if it authentic anything. Sounds delicious.
Hi! Do you think it’s also okay to sub it with Tabasco sauce? Thank you
Hi, I haven’t tried it so I can’t be sure. It may change the flavor and you might want to use a little less to start with.
Should be fine! Tabasco (original) is just cayenne pepper and vinegar.
that is not “authentic” LOLOLOLOL
Recipe is very nice! I am a professional chef and I am using this tonight for a party!!
Thank you
So glad you liked it!
I love this! Had it with roasted cauliflower with scallions and cilantro. I added a little toasted sesame oil, I would have added toasted sesame seeds too if I had them. Great!
Used this to make peanut noodles. It was delicious!
So glad you liked it!
This reminded us of when we were young in NYC!! Fabulous recipe. It’s so good to be able to make this at home. A gazillion thanks. We added a bit of extra soy sauce to individual servings, to taste.
I am so happy you loved it!
Excellent peanut sauce. Easy to make. Only comments are that I had to keep adding a little more water to keep the consistency smooth. I was surprised that the taste wasn’t lessened by the amount of extra water that I added. I used agave instead of maple syrup.
And I added less soy sauce than recipe suggests. So now this will be my go to peanut sauce. Thanks!
So glad you enjoyed it!
This was fabulous! I didn’t have chili sauce so used sriracha. Definitely a keeper recipe. Thanks!
So glad you loved it.
This was hands down the best peanut sauce recipe I’ve tried, and believe me I’ve tried dozens at this point! I also couldn’t find my favorite pre-made sauce in stores anymore when Covid hit. I tried this one tonight and the whole family loved it!
I did not have unsweetened peanut butter, so I just used Jiffy and didn’t add any sugar. I actually ended up adding this sauce to two packages of Shin Ramyun Spicy Noodle Soup with broccoli and sautéed strips of pork. Turned out fantastic and my kids couldn’t get enough! Thank you so much for the recipe, saving and adding to my recipe box!
I am so happy to hear that you loved it!
So glad found this recipe! The other peanut sauces I’ve made involved heating everything up together and I see now that it’s unnecessary. I had most of the ingredients (subbed chili garlic sauce for hoisin sauce with a dash of chili oil), but the outcome was better than the others I’ve tried. Thank you!
I am so glad you loved it!
This is the best peanut sauce I have ever had. Truly. It’s one of my most missed foods since things shut down in my state last year. Not even really thai food, just good peanut sauce! I’ve tried countless times to get my fiance to try it when I get it with take out spring rolls, and I think I know why he’s never really liked them…because the sauce was just so meh. Never enough garlic or ginger or spice. The man ate half of the last batch I made in one sitting, clearing out the veggies in the fridge. Now asks for it at least once a week and makes sure we always have a backup 2-pack of PB from Costco. You converted this man and now I get to make spring rolls for both of us! Bless you 💜
Aww, yay! So glad to hear that!
Loved this – I used a little more lime juice (that of a whole lime) and some crushed red pepper flakes for a little more heat, but otherwise this was absolutely perfect! My new go-to.
So happy to hear that!
Love it. It turn good
Really tasty, so much cheaper and way better than store-bought and you can use good quality organic ingredients. I had all the ingredients already except the garlic chili sauce and it tasted fine without that. Also used only one clove of garlic because I don’t like things over garlicky. And added a tablespoon of white wine because I noticed a store-bought brand had sake as one of the ingredients. So good on homemade summer rolls. Not sure why I never made my own before!
So glad you loved it!
Great sauce! Just want to be clear though, soy sauce is NOT gluten free so if you need it to be gluten free make sure you find a gluten free soy sauce! ☺️
Hi Julia – correct, one would need to use gluten free soy sauce or tamari in order for this to be gluten free. So glad you loved it!
I actually used Liquid Aminos to make it gluten free and it was amazing.
I’m usually not a fan of peanut sauces but this was so good! I made some veggie spring rolls & the flavors blended so well! Thank you for this recipe! Simply amazing 💜
I am so glad you loved it!
Super amazing sauce!! I didn’t want to stop eating it! I poured it into sautéed veggies (broccoli, cabbage, onion, squash, garlic) mixed with wheat thin spaghetti and topped with sunflower seeds and raw cabbage strips. I didn’t have peanuts in hand but the seeds were good too.
I used coconut aminos, swapped acv for rice vinegar, ground ginger powder, and lemon juice for lime because that’s what I had on hand. Everything else the same. My husband love it too! Definitely making again and again!
So glad you love it!