Spicy Asian Peanut Dipping Sauce
This spicy peanut dipping sauce is one of the best peanut sauces that you will ever make. It is absolutely a simple recipe and tastes much better than any store-bought ones.
We love spicy peanut sauce and I have never been successful before to make a restaurant-quality peanut sauce. When I was reading the ingredients for this sauce I saw that it had coconut milk in it.
That was something I have never used to make a sauce before and I wanted t give it a try. I am so glad I tried the peanut sauce because this was the perfect one that I was looking for and I kept licking it so much that I had to keep it out of my eyesight.
I had made Chinese New Year dumplings for one of the earlier blogging marathon themes and this was one of the side sauces I had made for the dish. It not only paired perfectly with the dumplings but was also great as a sauce for quick noodles. I diluted the leftover dipping sauce a little bit and then used it as a sauce for quick vegetable noodles the next night.
I also made Thai sweet chili sauce along with peanut sauce for the dumplings which I will be blogging about soon.
Preparation time - 5 minutes
Cooking time - 5 minutes
Difficulty level - easy
Ingredients to make Spicy Peanut sauce - Makes ½ cup
- Smooth peanut butter - 3 tbsp
- Chunky peanut butter - 1 tablespoon (can be substituted with smooth)
- Coconut milk - ¼ cup (more if you prefer thinner sauce)
- Soy sauce - 2 tsp
- Brown sugar - 2 tsp
- Crushed red pepper - ½ tsp
- Lime juice - 1 tablespoon (freshly squeezed)
- Crushed peanuts - for garnish
Procedure to make Spicy Peanut sauce
- Combine all the ingredients (except the crushed peanuts) in a small saucepan.
- Cook it on low heat, stirring continuously. Let the mixture come to a simmer and then turn off the flame.
- Transfer the peanut dipping sauce to a serving bowl and garnish with crushed peanuts.
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Recipe
Spicy Peanut sauce
Equipment
- sauce pan
- Stove
Ingredients
- 3 tablespoon Smooth peanut butter
- 1 tablespoon Chunky peanut butter can be substituted with smooth
- ¼ cup Coconut milk more if your prefer thinner sauce
- 2 teaspoon Soy sauce
- 2 teaspoon Brown sugar
- ½ teaspoon Crushed red pepper
- 1 tablespoon Lime juice freshly squeezed
- Crushed peanuts for garnish
Instructions
- Combine all the ingredients (except the crushed peanuts) in a small sauce pan.
- Cook it on low heat, stirring continuously. Let the mixture come to a simmer and then turn off the flame.
- Transfer to a serving bowl and garnish with crushed peanuts.
