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    Home » Whole Food Recipes » Pantry Basics Recipes

    February 14, 2016 | By Jami

    Homemade Spicy Peanut Sauce Recipe

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    A mildly spicy homemade peanut sauce based on the ingredients of a favorite store brand, but healthier and easily made at home! Head over to the Quick Healthy Recipes page for more great ideas.
    A mildly spicy homemade peanut sauce based on the ingredients of a favorite store brand, but healthier and easily made at home!

    Spicy peanut sauce is pretty much a staple around our house, mostly for how it makes a meal easy: make some noodles or rice (or use lettuce wraps), stir-fry some veggies, pour the sauce over everything and dinner's ready. Quick and flavorful - it's a very good thing (um...do you think that's trademarked?).

    Home made spicy peanut sauce recipe.

    Peanut sauce is one of those items where the store-bought product doesn't necessarily have a lot of junk-type ingredients in it, it's just really expensive! Even in Asian markets, it is not cheap.

    After trying several recipes and being disappointed (some were just like putting straight peanut butter on your noodles!), I stood in the aisle of the store and wrote down the ingredients of the brand we liked in the order listed, then came home and fiddled with amounts until it passed the taste test.

    And pass, it did! This is SO good and we really like being able to adjust it to the spice level we like. It takes just minutes to make, too. I'm so happy to have this recipe to add to our other pantry basic recipes.

    How to make Spicy Peanut Sauce

    Spicy peanut sauce ingredients

    Here are the simple ingredients you'll need to make this recipe: soy sauce, peanut butter, honey or brown sugar, rice vinegar AND apple cider vinegar, fresh ginger, garlic, and Sriracha sauce - the ingredient that adds the spiciness to the peanut sauce.

    Spicy Peanut Sauce-grating ginger with a Microplane

    You'll need to use grates fresh ginger for the best flavor. I used to be afraid of fresh ginger - do you peel it? Where do you keep it? How do you prepare it? Besides, it looked weird. So I would mostly use powdered ginger (I know...).

    But this Microplane grater (which I love, love, love) has changed my ginger ways. It's simple to just keep a knob in the freezer, cut off a chunk when needed, peel it and grate it frozen. I've found the key to easy grating is to do it while the knob is still mostly frozen, it doesn't grate as nicely if it's thawed.

    Making spicy peanut sauce in a blender

    Measure all the ingredients in a blender. You don't actually need a blender, it just makes it really quick and smooth - if you don't have a blender, you can use a food processor or a whisk.

    Adding the Sriracha sauce at the end to taste for spiciness. I like to use about a couple teaspoons, but to be honest, I usually just squirt some in the blender, since we like it spicy.

    Spicy Peanut Sauce Recipe

    Whirl it all up for a few seconds and voila! Spicy peanut sauce for your pantry and quick meals like stir fries, lettuce wraps and noodle salads. I hope you like this as much as we do!

    Click the arrow for the printable peanut sauce recipe + more pantry staple recipes you can try!

    Spicy Peanut Sauce Recipe
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    Homemade Spicy Peanut Sauce (a Pantry Basic)

    A mildly spicy sauce based on the ingredients of a favorite store brand, but without any junk and easily made at home.
    Prep Time10 mins
    Total Time10 mins
    Course: Condiments
    Cuisine: Thai
    Yield: 1 -1/2 cups
    Author: Jami Boys

    Ingredients

    • 2/3 cup soy sauce
    • 1/2 cup peanut butter feel free to add more if you like a really peanutty sauce...
    • 1/4 cup honey brown sugar or coconut/palm sugar
    • 2 tablespoons rice vinegar
    • 1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar
    • 2 teaspoons minced garlic
    • 1 teaspoon grated ginger
    • Sriracha chili sauce to taste

    Instructions

    • Combine all ingredients in a blender and whirl until mixed.
    • Pour into a glass jar and keep in the refrigerator.*

    Notes

    *This is a pourable peanut sauce to use for noodles and stir-fries, not dipping. Try reducing soy sauce to 1/2 cup if a thicker sauce is desired.

    Nutrition

    Serving: 2tablespoons | Calories: 96kcal | Carbohydrates: 9.4g | Protein: 3.7g | Fat: 5.4g | Saturated Fat: 1.1g | Cholesterol: 0mg | Sodium: 849mg | Fiber: 0.8g | Sugar: 7.1g
    Did you make this recipe?Mention @anoregoncottage or tag #anoregoncottage!

    Note: this recipe was originally published in 2009 and remains one of our most-pinned recipes. It's been updated with all new photos.

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    About Jami

    Since 2009 Jami Boys has been helping readers live a simple homemade life through whole food recipes, doable gardening, and easy DIY projects on An Oregon Cottage. From baking bread, to creating a floor from paper, to growing and preserving food, Jami shares the easiest ways to get things done. She's been featured in Cottages and Bungalows, Old House Journal, and First for Women magazines as well as numerous sites like Good Housekeeping, Huffington Post, and Apartment Therapy.

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