Description
With a handful of ingredients and 5 minutes, you can make a delicious peanut sauce that has no added sugar, is gluten-free, and vegan. Make it nut free with an easy modification.
This sauce is perfect for dipping veggies or skewered meat, pouring over stir-fries, noodles or rice, or using as a Pad Thai sauce (my favorite).
Ingredients
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2 tbsp fresh-squeezed (or bottled) lime juice
1 clove garlic (or 0.5 tsp garlic powder)
0.50 tsp red pepper flakes
1 tbsp soy sauce (or coconut aminos) or more to taste
2 tsp rice vinegar
3 tsp fresh ginger, minced (or 1 tsp dried powdered ginger)
0.25 cup peanut butter
0.25 cup canned light coconut milk
Instructions
- Mix all ingredients except coconut milk.
- If using a food processor or blender: put all ingredients except the coconut milk into the processor/blender and blend until smooth. Video demo here.
- If mixing by hand: Put the peanut butter in a microwave-safe bowl and microwave for 30 seconds at 50% power, or until the butter is warm. Then, wisk in all the other ingredients except the coconut milk until smooth.
- Add the coconut milk and continue blending, or whisking by hand, until the sauce is smooth.
- Taste and add more soy sauce/coconut aminos as needed.
- Enjoy as a sauce for meat, fish, eggs, vegetables, rice, or noodles.
Check out a short and very amatuer video of sauce prep at this link: https://youtu.be/r3Mir1TxQNY
Notes
- I use light coconut milk for smoother texture (not as thick and globby when cool), but you can definitely use full-fat canned coconut milk. Note that the fat and calories will increase if you use full-fat canned coconut milk.
- Peanut-free version: Substitute your favorite nut butter in place of peanut butter.
- Nut-free version: Substitute sunflower seed butter or tahini in place of the peanut butter.
- Prep Time: 5 minutes
- Method: mix
- Cuisine: Thai
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 3 Tablespoons
- Calories: 106
- Sugar: 1 g
- Sodium: 225 mg
- Fat: 9 g
- Saturated Fat: 2 g
- Trans Fat: 0 g
- Carbohydrates: 4 g
- Fiber: 2 g
- Protein: 4 g
- Cholesterol: 0 mg