Yield: 8 People

Peanut Sauce

Authentic and spicy peanut sauce with amazing rich taste. This homemade peanut sauce recipe goes well with chicken satay. This is the best peanut satay sauce you will find online!

Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 10 minutes
Total Time 25 minutes

Ingredients

  • 1 cup dry roasted peanuts, unsalted
  • 1 heaping tablespoon tamarind pulps
  • 1/4 cup vegetable oil
  • 1 cup water
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt or to taste
  • 2 1/2 tablespoons sugar, palm sugar preferred
  • 1 teaspoon coriander powder
  • 1 tablespoon sweet soy sauce (Kecap Manis)

Spice Paste:

  • 8 dried red chilies, seeded and soaked in warm water
  • 3 cloves garlic, peeled
  • 4 cloves small shallots or pearl onions, peeled
  • 1 stalk lemongrass, cut into 3 strips, use only 1 strip at the bottom
  • 1/2 inch galangal, peeled

Instructions

  1. Crush the peanuts with mortar and pestle or use a food processor to ground the peanuts. Set aside. Ground peanut for peanut sauce.
  2. In a small bowl, add the tamarind pulps plus 1/4 cup warm water. Set aside for 15 mins. Squeeze and extract the juice from the tamarind pulps and discard. Keep the tamarind juice. Tamarind juice for peanut sauce.
  3. Chop the Spice Paste ingredients coarsely, transfer to a food processor and blend until very fine. Add a few tablespoons of water to help blending. Peanut sauce ingredients
  4. In a sauce pan, heat the oil on medium heat and add the spice paste. Peanut sauce spice paste
  5. Add the remaining two strips of lemongrass to the spice paste. Cook the spice paste until it becomes aromatic and smell spicy. Making peanut sauce in a sauce pan.
  6. Add the ground peanuts, water, tamarind juice, salt, sugar, coriander powder and sweet soy sauce. Stir to combine well.
  7. Turn the heat to medium-low heat, stir continuously for about 5-10 minutes or until the peanut sauce thickens to your desired consistency. The oil and the peanut sauce should separate when it's done. Peanut sauce in a saucepan.
  8. Let cool at room temperature and serve the peanut sauce with satay. Peanut sauce with chicken satay.

Notes

You may use Planters brand unsalted dry roasted peanuts.

Nutrition Information

Yield

8

Serving Size

1
Amount Per Serving Calories 231Total Fat 16gSaturated Fat 2gTrans Fat 0gUnsaturated Fat 13gCholesterol 0mgSodium 299mgCarbohydrates 19gFiber 3gSugar 11gProtein 6g