Peanut Sauce

Name: Peanut Sauce
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 6 min
Total time: 11 min
Yield: 3 cups
Ingredients: 1 cup creamy peanut butter, not old fashioned style or freshly ground; 1 (14 ounce) can chicken broth; 1/4 cup fresh lime juice; 3 tablespoons brown sugar; 7 teaspoons soy sauce; 2 tablespoons peeled fresh ginger; 1/2 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes

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Submitted by Normaone

"Peanut sauce is one of my favorite yummy things. It's great on just about anything-pasta, pork, chicken. My husband says it would make cardboard taste good! It's very versatile, easy to make and inexpensive."

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Ready In:: 11mins
Ingredients:: 7
Yields:: 3 cups

ingredients

1 cup creamy peanut butter, not old fashioned style or freshly ground
1 (14 ounce) can chicken broth
¹⁄₄ cup fresh lime juice
3 tablespoons brown sugar
7 teaspoons soy sauce
2 tablespoons peeled fresh ginger
¹⁄₂ teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes

directions

Place peanut butter in heavy medium saucepan.
Slowly add chicken broth, then all other ingredients.
Stir over medium heat until smooth and thick, about 6 minutes.
Can be stored in refrigerator 3 days until ready to use.
Reheat before serving.

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Reviews

This is a great recipe for many reasons: simple to prepare, great tasting, versatile uses and most of all no "exotic" ingredients. Most asian sauce recipes call for ingredients that might be only used once and then what do you do with the rest? Not this one. Thanks!

JudyCC
So good. I used this to make peanut butter chicken, I just fried up some chicken chunks and tossed them into the sauce....my family loved it. Thank you for sharing your recipe with us.

Stephanie S.
This is a tasty, easy to make peanut sauce. I made Thai chicken skewers and coconut rice and this sauce complemented the chicken really well. I used ginger paste (because I'm lazy) and halved the recipe. I expected it to be just okay because of the lack of coconut milk but it was great! I especially like that it's really quick and easy. Thanks for sharing!

hedgiehog
OMG, i will never use bottled sauce again,, this was fantastic,, even the DH loved it,,, used the left over sauce on bread pork loin the next nite over egg noodles and it was the best,,, i will use this again and again,,, loved it on grilled chicken skewers and lumpia,,,thanks a lot

troublejul
great dippin sauce for my chicken strips. i thought i might of done something wrong because it seemed a bit thin, but as it cooled a bit, it thickened up and worked out swell.

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Tweaks

Most peanut sauce recipes I've found are too sour or rich. This one has a nice balanced peanuty flavor. I served over Pad Thai...yummy :) I made with water instead of stock and it was still good.

Shakahari
I made this to use as a salad dressing (I can't stomach the smell of vinegar or any other kind of dressing), so I doubled the amount of soy sauce. I also used garlic instead of ginger. And it is delicious. I'm sure it would be just as good on meat, pasta, or tofu, and I plan to make this a lot, espeically since it comes together so quickly. Thank you very much.

emily hauer