The Best Thai-Inspired Peanut Sauce - Fed & Fit (2024)

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What to eat Thai peanut sauce with? ›

If the sauce is too thick, add more water, 1 tablespoon at a time, until it reaches your desired consistency. Use as a dipping sauce for spring rolls or on peanut noodles.

Simply keep it in a cool, dark place. Generally, an unopened bottle of peanut sauce will last about a year if it's stored correctly. While it's a good idea to keep the “use by” date in mind, it's usually just fine for a few months after that date. Once the bottle is opened, you'll need to keep it in the refrigerator.

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If it is half-broken, add half as much again as the amount of oil that was used to break it in the first place. If it is completely broken, add equal volumes of oil and liquid. Start with a little bit and keep adding until the sauce comes back together into an emulsion. This may take a few iterations.

Thai Peanut Sauce is made up of peanut butter, soy sauce, ginger, a sweetener (I used maple syrup), rice wine vinegar, sesame seeds, a spice and water. In some more traditional versions, coconut milk is used instead of water, but I find this combination to be perfect.

Have you ever noticed the four glasses set up on dining table at restaurants in Thailand? These glasses form a set of must-have condiments which consist of sugar, fish sauce, chili flakes and vinegar with sliced or crushed chilies. Those condiments are similar to salt and pepper in western culture.

Add some water or coconut milk until the desired consistency is reached. (Use less water or coconut milk if you serve the peanut sauce as a dip or use more if you serve it as a salad dressing).

Too salty? You probably added too much soy sauce. Counteract this by adding more peanut butter, sugar, or water.

If it's too thick, thin with more water. For a fun flavor twist, add some fresh grated ginger to taste.

Thai Style Peanut Sauce blends premium roasted peanuts with traditionally brewed soy sauce, sugar, wine, honey, miso, sesame oil, and a mix of seasonings and spices.

How long is Thai peanut sauce good for? ›

Peanut sauce will keep for up to a week in a refrigerated airtight container. But remember to take the sauce out of the fridge about 30 minutes before serving to let it come to room temperature — you know how stubborn peanut butter can be.

If your peanut butter is particularly thick, you may need to use the full 4 tablespoons of water to thin out the mixture (or more, if necessary). Feel free to adjust to taste here—for example, sometimes I want my sauce more savory and add another clove of garlic, or a little sweeter, so I add extra honey.

If the oil is separating from the sauce a bit (this can happen from the oil in the coconut milk and the peanut butter, but it's easy to fix!), add water a few drops at a time and whisk until it comes smoothly back together.

Why is my peanut sauce lumpy? If your ingredients aren't all the same temperature, your sauce and get lumpy. To prevent this you can gently warm the ingredients in a glass mixing bowl then whisk to combine.

Peanut sauce is the classic dipping sauce for chicken satay (grilled chicken skewers) and makes a delicious dipping sauce for rice paper rolls, shrimp, potstickers, tempura and fresh vegetables including cucumber slices, carrot sticks and red pepper strips.

A decent satay sauce, made from store cupboard ingredients is a great recipe to have on standby. It's a simple way to pep up a rotisserie chicken, drizzle over a salad or to use as a dip for veggies. Of course it also goes perfectly with satay chicken skewers – which is a recipe we all love at home.

All mixed in with roasted peanuts, sesame and crunchy fried garlic. Its an every day sauce for every day food. Its gorgeous on noodles, dumplings and loves to be center stage on a bowl of rice but its equally delightfull on top of morning eggs, drizzled on some leftovers or used as the gateway to eating lots more veg!