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    Home ➞ All Recipes ➞ Dressings, Dips, & Sauces

    5-Minute Peanut Sauce

    Published: December 18, 2016 // Updated: October 19, 2020 // by Shannon Emery

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    A white dish filled with 5-Minute Peanut Sauce and topped with chopped peanuts.
    A dish of 5-Minute Peanut Sauce resting on a serving board surround by red bell peppers, baby carrots, yellow bell peppers, and broccoli florets.
    A dish of 5-Minute Peanut Sauce surrounded by a rainbow of veggies.

    A quick and easy 8-ingredient peanut sauce that comes together in 5 minutes! Perfect with spring rolls, grilled meats, noodles, or just as a dip for veggies! Vegan & soy-free.

    White dish with peanut sauce sprinkled with chopped peanuts.

    5 Minute Peanut Sauce! Peanut butter, brown sugar, red chili garlic sauce, rice vinegar, water, lemon, garlic, salt. They meet up for a little dance party in your food processor. You dance while they dance. And DONE. Your veggies, your spring rolls, your noodly dishes, your grilled meats, and your face will thank you.

    A display of ingredients that are used to make a quick and easy 5-Minute Peanut Sauce.

    This 5 Minute Peanut Sauce was inspired by TOO many snow days and my constant craving for Thai food. Oooor maybe I just really like the peanut sauce that always comes with my Thai food take-out and I really just want to dip all my snacky vegetable foods in it. I'm not sure which.

    All of the ingredients for 5-Minute Peanut Sauce are ready to be mixed in a food processor.

    The Thai food and peanut dipping sauce cravings are a real thing lately. No, I'm not pregnant. You thought it for a brief second didn't you. Stop it.

    But srsly, what's not to love about Thai food with a side of peanut sauce. Especially if I don't have to cook and the magical Thai food fairies just deliver it to my front door (or because I called my hubby and asked him to bring home Thai take-out...again).

    Can't get enough Thai food. Or that peanut sauce. I'm not pregnant.

    A close-up view of creamy 5-Minute Peanut Sauce.

    A Snowpocalypse came to town. Did you hear about this in your neck of winter's wonderland? In the Pacific Northwest, Snowpocalypse is what our local news media calls 1-3 inches of snow in Portlandia. All the city stops when that first snowflake hits the ground and we literally fuurrreaak out.

    I'm talkin' snow plows forgot how to snow plow, the school buses couldn't get kids home from school until it was past their bedtime, and people abandoned their cars on the freeways only to have their car towed away leaving one to wonder how the tow truck could make it on the roads but the snow plows couldn't.

    And that's when the Thai food peanut sauce cravings hit me like a blizzard of fury.

    Do I venture out with my kidlets into the great white frenzy only to abandon my car on the side of the road along with all the other snow shocked commuters to trek miles uphill both ways through the snowy foray for the precious peanut sauce?

    Nope, sounds too cold. I want need the sauce now. I'm not pregnant.

    A serving board with a dish of 5-Minute Peanut Sauce and a rainbow array of veggies ready to be dipped.

    Can I just drink the peanut sauce? Ooooh, what about chapstick?!?! Maybe I should market a peanut sauce chapstick. Is that going overboard with the sauce? Okay, maybe.

    No, but really, what do you think?  Would you buy a peanut sauce chapstick? Clearly this would be bad for those with peanut allergies. It would be like natural lip botox but you'd need an EpiPen to go with it. Sorry peanut allergy person.

    It's soy free though! Where are my soy free peeps?! (fist bump) I've got your back soy free peeps because you and I both know that peanut sauce always has soy in it. Why does it? Just WHY? Let's leave it out this time mmmkay?

    A dish of peanut sauce surrounded by red bell peppers, organ carrots, yellow bell peppers, and green broccoli.

    5 Minute Peanut Sauce with only 8 ingredients. A perfect snack option when it's snowpocalyptic outside and you've already overdone it on the Christmas cookies. Push the cookies aside (just for now), get out all your veggies, and have a peanut sauce veggie dipping party.

    Your body and mind will thank you for the veggies, your mouth will thank you for the tasty peanut sauce to go with them, and your lips will need a couple of napkins (because you realized peanut sauce chapstick might not be a bad idea after all).  : )

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    A dish of 5-Minute Peanut Sauce surrounded by a rainbow of veggies.

    5 Minute Peanut Sauce


    5 from 3 reviews

    • Author: Shannon Emery
    • Prep Time: 5 mins
    • Cook Time: 0 minutes
    • Total Time: 5 minutes
    • Yield: About 1 cup 1x
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    Description

    A quick and easy 8-ingredient peanut sauce that comes together in 5 minutes! Perfect with spring rolls, grilled meats, noodles, or just as a dip for veggies! Vegan & soy-free.


    Ingredients

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    • ½ cup peanut butter (crunchy or creamy - you pick!)
    • 1 tablespoon brown sugar
    • 1 tablespoon rice vinegar
    • 2 tablespoons fresh-squeezed lemon juice
    • 3 tablespoons sweet red chili sauce
    • 2 medium-sized garlic cloves
    • ¼ teaspoon Kosher salt
    • 3 tablespoons hot water

    Instructions

    1. Combine all the ingredients in a food processor until they are blended smoothly together and you've reached your desired consistency (see notes).
    2. Dip, eat, enjoy!

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    Notes

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    I like to add the water last so I can control how thick or thin the sauce is (ie. thicker for dipping or thinner for noodle dishes).

    If you prefer your sauce to be a little spicier, add more of the red chili sauce. Prefer it to be sweeter? Add more brown sugar.

    This peanut sauce can be stored in a covered container in the refrigerator for about a week.

    • Category: Sauce
    • Method: Food Processor
    • Cuisine: Asian
    • Diet: Gluten Free

    Keywords: peanut sauce recipe, gluten-free recipes, sauce recipes

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    A white dish filled with 5-Minute Peanut Sauce and topped with chopped peanuts.

    Still thinking about that chapstick aren't you.

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    1. Kookooracharabioso

      March 07, 2022 at 9:04 am

      Didn't add sugar or salt and used ingredients I had like hoison sauce and xtra rice vinegar xtra lemon juice. I thought Pnut sauce needed lime juice only so having only lemon I found your recipe and LOVE it! It's the only way I csn get family to eat cooked salad & chicken!

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      • Shannon Emery

        March 09, 2022 at 6:55 am

        Yay! I'm so glad to hear you enjoyed it! Thanks for taking the time to leave your comment!

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    2. Kelly Recktenwald

      April 10, 2019 at 9:39 am

      I can't wait to make this! These are all ingredients I already have on hand regularly. I love simple, easy to throw together recipes, and peanut sauce is one of my favorite things. Thank you!!

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      • Shannon

        April 10, 2019 at 1:55 pm

        Thanks so much Kelly for your kind comment! That means so much to me! I hope you enjoy the peanut sauce! : )

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    3. alicja

      April 08, 2019 at 8:13 am

      stupid - to make one sauce, you have to buy another sauce. To make peanut sauce, you have to buy garlic sauce-how bad

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      • Shannon

        April 08, 2019 at 10:18 am

        Hi Alicja, sorry to hear you are disappointed with the ingredients in this sauce. I don't include garlic sauce in this recipe but I do include sweet red chili sauce so perhaps that is what you are referring to. I'm not sure why using that particular ingredient is "bad" versus any of the other ingredients used to make the sauce. Sweet red chili sauce is a common ingredient in many different sauces. My goal was to provide an approachable and easy peanut sauce recipe that tastes amazing without the extra steps of making pickled red chili pepper, which is a primary ingredient in the red chili sauce. Thank you for sharing your thoughts though.

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    4. Linda

      March 17, 2019 at 3:16 pm

      Served this as a dip with veggies. Everyone loved it. Thank you for this quick and easy sauce.

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      • Shannon

        March 17, 2019 at 5:31 pm

        Thank you for your comment Linda! I'm so glad to hear everyone loved it!

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    5. Becky

      January 17, 2018 at 1:55 pm

      I make this all the time! We use it as a dipping sauce, thin it down a bit more for sauce for"thai noodles" (as my toddler calls it). Every other peanut sauce I've made has separated, this stays together and is so quick to make (side note - we don't do peanuts in my house, works really well with almond butter too!). Delicious and easy - what's not to love!






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    6. Ann

      September 09, 2017 at 10:07 pm

      Woah, this was good and so simple. I've been making different peanut sauces for almost 20 years actually and this is the best I've had. Thanks for creating and sharing.






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      • Shannon

        September 10, 2017 at 7:52 pm

        Yay! I'm so glad you loved it and I'm so humbled by your sweet compliment!

        Reply
    7. Alexandra

      August 28, 2017 at 12:07 pm

      I will never ever buy peanut sauce again!!!!
      Used it for dipping sauce with egg rolls and it was awesome.
      Thanx for sharing 🙂

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      • Shannon

        August 29, 2017 at 2:31 pm

        Thanks so much Alexandra! I'm so glad you enjoyed it!

        Reply
    8. Mona

      August 27, 2017 at 6:22 pm

      it's tasty thank you

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      • Shannon

        August 29, 2017 at 2:31 pm

        My pleasure Mona, I'm so glad you enjoyed it!

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    9. Shannon

      January 27, 2017 at 10:20 pm

      Hi Jenna! Thanks for sharing and I love that the kiddos enjoyed it too! Chicken satay with fries dipped in this sauce sounds awesome!

      Reply
    10. Jenna

      January 27, 2017 at 8:42 am

      This is delicious and SO easy! We discovered our favorite fry shop has Chicken Satay, but no peanut sauce (but does have nearly every other dipping sauce imaginable). I whipped this up to go with the satay and fries - so flavorful, fast and yummy. I had everything on hand, even though I wasn't planning on making it, which is always a big plus in my book. Even both toddlers ate it!






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