Spicy Peanut Sauce

Easy and quick spicy peanut sauce as dips or dressing for perfect dishes. It’s creamy, savory, and a little spicy. Delish peanut sauce of Asian flavor. Finger-licking good!

Peanut sauce is one of the many chili sauces from Indonesia. It has ingredients from fried peanuts with a mixture of cayenne pepper, shallots, and other ingredients. This type of chili sauce is very suitable as an extra boost to the dish when you eat with your family.

The peanut sauce taste is quite spicy and savory, so it’s no wonder that many people like this type of chili sauce. Some people call it fried peanut sauce because the peanuts need to fry before grinding steps.

Indonesian people usually use fried peanut sauce as a dip for vegetables such as cucumber, eggplant, and other types of dipping food. In addition, there are also many Indonesian foods that use this as a dip such as satay, batagor, dumplings, gado-gado, pecel rice, and others. This sauce can add to your appetite because this sauce produces a very tasty and delicious taste.

Making spicy peanut sauce is easy. Moreover, the ingredients are easy to find. Now, follow the steps below for the best peanut sauce recipe.

Does the peanut sauce come from Indonesia or Thailand?

Generally, people associate peanut sauce with Thai food. In fact, this sauce comes from Indonesia. You can see this from various Indonesian foods that use this sauce as a dip or dressing.

In fact, my friend from Thailand said she rarely found peanut sauce with a soft texture. The texture of peanut sauce in Thailand resembles thick grains of sand and not mud or peanut butter. In addition, it tastes spicier, sour, and slightly sweeter. Meanwhile, because of the added sweet soy sauce, Indonesian peanut sauce is sweeter. In Southeast Asia, this popular sauce has a distinctive taste in each country.

This sauce is increasingly popular throughout the world. People love it for its taste, its texture, and its multipurpose sauce. You can find the instant version at Asian grocery stores. But, if you make it from the start, you will get the best sauce flavor. The steps are easy; mixing all ingredients, adding water, and heating up.

In 15 minutes, you can get delicious spicy peanut sauce. You can pour it into a salad, eat it with rice or noodles, eat it with a meat mixture like satay, and mix it with raw or steamed vegetables like a gado-gado. You will be surprised because this sauce will disappear as soon as you serve it.

How to Make Spicy Peanut Sauce

First of all, you need to prepare all the ingredients: peanuts, bird’s eye chilis, small shallots, garlic, palm sugar block, mushroom stock powder (optional), sea salt, white pepper powder, vegetable oil for frying, and hot water.

Then, heat vegetable oil in a pan over medium heat.

Add peanuts into the pan. Next, fry peanuts until slightly dark brown.

After that, dry the peanuts and add to the food processor.

Grind all the ingredients except water with a food processor.

Grind all ingredients until the texture is smooth or based on your preference.

In a pan add ½ cup of peanut sauce mixture and water (the amount depends on your desired consistency).

Boil peanut butter sauce on low heat for 5 minutes.

Set aside and put it on a small bowl.

Serve with the main dish.

Recipe Notes:

• You can add chili garlic sauce or sriracha if you like it. Yet, the flavor will be a little different.
• If you like to change the block of brown sugar, you can change it with other kinds of sugar. But, the flavor won’t be authentic. At least, use the usual brown sugar if you can’t find the block brown sugar.
• Squeeze lime juice if you like to add fresh flavor.
• Adjust the thickness by adding the amount of water.
• To adjust the flavor, you can blend the ingredients until it’s to your liking.
• In my experience, The dry peanut sauce (before adding some water) keep for 1 month or more if you freeze it. Yet, for the liquid sauce, it keeps for 3 days only.

What are the best tasty dishes to serve with?

• Steamed Spanish Mackerel Dumplings
• Shrimp and Spicy Tuna Vietnamese Spring Rolls
• Fried Tapioca Flour aka Cireng
• Crispy Vegetable Fritters or Bakwan

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