How to Make Peanut Sauce and Why You Should

• Best flavor: Peanut butter and coconut milk give this sauce a creamy texture, tamari adds a rich, deep salty flavor, rice vinegar, and lime juice make it tangy, and Thai chili sauce adds lots of spicy sweetness. Add ginger and garlic to this mix and you have an incredibly tasty sauce to add lots of interest to your meals!
• Great for dipping, drizzling, and tossing!
• So many ways to use it: This recipe can easily be doubled or tripled so you can always have some on hand, ready to use in SO many ways! It's delicious as a veggie dip, over noodles, with spring rolls, on chicken wings, or drizzled over roasted vegetables. Jazz up a salad, a power bowl, or a simple stir-fry with a drizzle of peanut sauce.
• Homemade is best: Making homemade sauce from scratch means you can avoid additives, adjust the ingredients to suit your tastes, and save money!

After having an incredible peanut sauce in a Thai restaurant while vacationing in Indonesia, I played with my old recipe a little to make it lighter and creamier. This recipe for peanut sauce with coconut milk is a delicious result!

• creamy natural peanut butter: This recipe will not taste the same if you use peanut butter with sugar added, so be sure to use natural peanut butter.
• canned coconut milk: Canned, full-fat coconut milk will give this sauce that sought-after creamy texture.
• tamari (soy sauce): Choose gluten-free tamari, if necessary. For a paleo diet, substitute coconut aminos.
• rice vinegar
• garlic: Fresh cloves are always best!
• fresh ginger: Start with a little. You can always add more.
• sweet Thai chili sauce: There is no added sugar in this recipe as you'll use this sweet chili sauce instead.
• fresh lime juice: Freshly squeezed lime juice adds an extra burst of fresh flavor.

Adjust the seasonings to suit your family's tastes! This version is quite mild, so you can easily increase the amount of ginger and sweet chili sauce if you want a spicier result.

🍽 Ways to use peanut sauce

This recipe as written below makes approximately 1 ½ cups of sauce.

I store it in ½ or 1 cup containers in the fridge or freezer so it's ready to use for my favorite recipes, like the following:

• Simple Singapore Chicken Satay: street food you can make at home!
• Thai Noodle Salad: crisp and crunchy salad, loaded with fresh veggies and tossed with a peanut sauce dressing.
• Try this Asian sauce on Udon noodles or zucchini noodles, or with Thai lettuce wraps.
• Brighten up a power bowl or a Buddha bowl with a couple of tablespoons of this sauce. Sprinkle with finely chopped peanuts for extra crunch!
• It's amazing on a Thai-style pizza. Top your favorite gluten-free pizza crust with shredded chicken, shredded red cabbage and carrots, cilantro, and peanut sauce!
• They'll be asking for seconds of broccoli salad when you toss it with peanut sauce!
• Air fry chicken wings until crispy, then toss with peanut sauce, like these Air Fryer Thai Peanut Chicken Wings.
• It makes a great dip for fresh veggies, too.