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Learn how to make Peanut Sauce using only 5 ingredients. This is an easy and amazing homemade Thai peanut sauce recipe that takes only 15 minutes. Peanut Sauce is great as a dipping sauce and more!

How to make Thai Peanut Sauce - 5 ingredients and you can make the most amazing peanut sauce | rasamalaysia.com

Easy and authentic Thai Peanut Sauce recipe with 5 ingredients.

Easy Peanut Sauce Recipe

Thai peanut sauce is probably one of the most popular Asian dipping sauces, everyone loves the taste of peanut sauce as it’s so tasty, versatile, and addictive.

Thai peanut sauce goes well with skewers of chicken sate or grilled meat, but it’s also amazing with other protein such as shrimp or fish.

Most people think that peanut sauce is hard to make and never attempted it at home. In fact, Asian peanut sauce is really easy and takes only a few key ingredients: peanut butter, coconut milk, Thai red curry paste, Apple cider vinegar, salt and sugar to taste.

The best thing about this peanut sauce recipe is that it doesn’t involve much cooking, all you need is to mix the ingredients in a sauce pan, heat it up, and voila, you have the homemade peanut sauce.

This easy peanut sauce takes less than 15 minutes. Add all the ingredients in a sauce pan, heat it up, whisk it and it’s done.

You can use Thai peanut sauce for chicken sate, or green beans with Thai peanut sauce. The possibilities are endless, try it.

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Thai Peanut Sauce Recipe

How to make Thai Peanut Sauce - 5 ingredients and you can make the most amazing peanut sauce. 

Course Condiment
Cuisine Thai
Keyword Thai Peanut Sauce
Prep Time
Cook Time
Total Time
Servings 3 people
Calories 397 kcal
Author

Ingredients

Ingredients:

  • 1/2 cup creamy peanut butter
  • 3/4 cup coconut milk
  • 2 tablespoons Thai red curry paste
  • 2 tablespoons apple cider vinegar
  • 1 tablespoon sugar or to taste
  • 2 tablespoons ground peanut
  • salt to taste

Pan-Fried Turmeric Chicken

  • 2 chicken thighs, skin-on, boneless
  • 1/2 teaspoon turmeric powder
  • salt
  • black pepper

Instructions

  1. Add all the ingredients in the saucepan. Use a whisk to quickly whisk all the ingredients together before transferring to a stove top to heat up on low heat. Continue to whisk the peanut sauce until all ingredients are well-combined.
  2. As soon as the peanut sauce starts to simmer and bubble, turn off the heat. (If you like the sauce more watery, you may add a little water to dilute it during the cooking process.) Transfer off the heat and top with some ground peanut. The Thai peanut sauce is now ready. You can keep the left over in the fridge for a week without losing the fresh taste. To make the chicken, marinate both sides of the chicken thighs with turmeric powder, salt and black pepper, for 15 minutes. Pan fry the chicken with some oil until both sides are nicely brown and slightly "crispy," and the meat is cooked through. Slice the chicken into pieces and drizzle with the peanut sauce and garnish with some chopped cilantro leaves. Serve immediately with rice and with fresh salad of your choice.
Nutrition Facts
Thai Peanut Sauce Recipe
Amount Per Serving (3 people)
Calories 397 Calories from Fat 450
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 50g 77%
Saturated Fat 19g 95%
Cholesterol 74mg 25%
Sodium 265mg 11%
Potassium 607mg 17%
Total Carbohydrates 16g 5%
Dietary Fiber 4g 16%
Sugars 9g
Protein 26g 52%
Vitamin A 32.7%
Vitamin C 1.7%
Calcium 5.6%
Iron 21.3%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.
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  2. This is excellent and very easy to make. Mild as written, but plenty flavorful. I doubled to recipe (in order to use one whole can of coconut milk) and added one juiced lime. The addition of the lime added depth to the flavor and provided just the right consistency for my taste. Excellent on salad.

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  6. Hi and thank you for posting your Peanut-Sauce recipe.
    It looks delicious so I’m anxious to try it.soon.
    Based on the ingredients.. I KNOW I’ll love it !!!

    PS:
    As you’re probably aware “Peanut Sauce” is not Thai but Indonesian..
    Altho, several Thai restaurants (outside of Thailand) serve it.
    Just like many Chinese buffet restaurants serve “sushi” and teriyaki dishes.

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  9. This sauce is fantastic!! I had made an Asian meatball recipe with peanut sauce from a different website, but the sauce was just not very good. I made the meatball recipe again, but used your recipe for sauce – it makes all the difference!! What a great balance of flavors. Thank you for sharing.

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  10. love your peanut sauce recipe turns out very well. My son loves thai food alway want me to make this sauce . Thank you ..

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  12. Yummy! looks good and very easy to make. Can we put it on top of stir-fried noodles, or is that a different recipe?

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  13. I absolutely love this recipe ! So simple to make and absolutely delicious .Have made it multiple time since I saw it on Pinterest. Never thought of using the red curry paste before. What a time saver. Good bye to the tedious traditional way ! Now it’s my go to recipe. Thank you for posting !

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  15. Hi, thanks for the recipe. We have a child who is allergic to peanuts so I substituted Tahini Paste for the peanut butter. it still tasted delicious. Thanks

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  16. I think it’s very unlikely that cooks or chefs in Malaysia use peanut better. I would prefer to make a more authentic peanut satay sauce

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  21. I frequent a Thai restaurant that serves a peanut dressing on salad. Do you have such a recipe. They tell me it is very hard to make. Wondering if I can use this recipe?

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  24. All of your recipes are easy to understand and put together. They are the best tasting and easiest Asian recipes that I know of. Congrats and thank you for sharing your Asian cuisine knowledge.

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  25. Hi there, I love Asian food but have a coconut allergy – what you you recommend using in the place of coconut milk? Thanks!

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  26. This is an awesome recipe! Made it twice already this week, I could just eat it on its own! I used chunky peanut butter as that was what was available. I prefer tamarind juice and brown sugar as ran out of palm sugar. Thanks again!

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    • There are many ways to make Thai peanut sauce, you can use tamarind juice, like in this recipe: https://rasamalaysia.com/thai-chicken-sate-with-peanut-sauce/2/, regular Chinese clear “white” vinegar, or apple cider vinegar, or even lemon juice if all are not assessible. I am trying to make this recipe really easy for my American readers, with easy-to-get store bought ingredients, so I use apple cider vinegar. Instead of salt, you can use fish sauce for better umami flavor, and instead of sugar, you can use Thai palm sugar. It’s all about simplifying the recipe so everyone can make it. :)

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  30. Love your site and recipes. This new Peanut Sauce recipe looks so much easier to make than the one included in the Beef Satay Recipe. Is there one ingredient I can or should add to make it Spicy Peanut Sauce for Beef Satay? Thank you!

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  31. I love peanut sauce so much I think I may even try it on ice cream one day! thanks for this simple recipe. Is this a typo or what do you mean by jam? ‘peanut butter jam’

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