Spicy Asian Peanut Dipping Sauce

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 eye sight.

I had made Chinese New Year dumplings for one of the earlier blogging marathon theme and this was one of the side sauces I had made for the dish. It not only paired perfectly for the dumplings, but was also great as a sauce for quick noodles. I diluted the left over 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 the 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 tbsp (can be substituted with smooth)
• Coconut milk – ¼ cup (more if your prefer thinner sauce)
• Soy sauce – 2 tsp
• Brown sugar – 2 tsp
• Crushed red pepper – ½ tsp
• Lime juice – 1 tbsp (freshly squeezed)
• Crushed peanuts – for garnish

Procedure to make Spicy Peanut sauce –

• 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.

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Spicy Peanut sauce

A delicious and simple to make spicy peanut sauce that is perfect to serve with spring rolls or dumplings.

Course Appetizer

Cuisine Thai

Keyword Dipping sauce for dumplings, How to spicy peanut sauce, Peanut dipping sauce, Peanut sauce for spring rolls, Thai Dipping sauce, Vegan peanut sauce

Prep Time 5 minutes

Cook Time 5 minutes

Total Time 10 minutes

Author Sandhya Ramakrishnan

Ingredients

• Smooth peanut butter – 3 tbsp
• Chunky peanut butter – 1 tbsp can be substituted with smooth
• Coconut milk – ¼ cup more if your prefer thinner sauce
• Soy sauce – 2 tsp
• Brown sugar – 2 tsp
• Crushed red pepper – ½ tsp
• Lime juice – 1 tbsp freshly squeezed
• Crushed peanuts – for garnish

Instructions

1. Combine all the ingredients (except the crushed peanuts) in a small sauce pan.
2. Cook it on low heat, stirring continuously. Let the mixture come to a simmer and then turn off the flame.
3. Transfer to a serving bowl and garnish with crushed peanuts.