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An Easy Satay Dipping Sauce, using simple ingredients and ready in less than 5 minutes! Pour it over chicken, seafood, or beef for Satay right at home!
Easy Satay Dipping Sauce! Good luck serving it with anything, because the most likely scenario is you; dipping your spoon in and slurping it directly out of the pan!
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With all of the reviews coming in after posting the Easy Thai Satay Chicken, and questions asking what else this incredibly deliciously creamy sauce can be served with, I’ve decided to post it as a dipping sauce. THIS SAUCE. OH. EM. GEE.
Traditional and authentic satay sauce — namely Thai Satay — calls for crushing peanuts into a paste and grinding your own spices together, which is preferable if you have the time and the patience to do so. I don’t know about you, but I don’t have the patience. Or the time. Most of us NEED easy to make recipes, without needing to hit a bottle of sauce to get the flavour we want. So, even though this recipe is not an authentic, ‘real deal’ satay sauce, this is more of the rushed-parents-and-people-in-general–trying-to-get-dinner-on-the-table-with-hungry-people-breathing-down-your-neck type of sauce / situation. Better than ANY store bought sauce, and tastes EXACTLY the same (well, BETTER as I’ve been told) as take out Satay. 100,000,000% guaranteed.
And it’s a matter of throwing all of your ingredients into a medium-sized pot or saucepan, simmering it all together, and sauce is on your table in less than 10 minutes.
You should definitely try this on shrimp like our Satay Shrimp Skewers!
Or you can even make this as a dip for my Fried Tortilla Chips.
For more Thai flavours:
One Skillet Thai Chicken Thighs and Noodles
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Satay Dipping Sauce
Ingredients
- 1 2/3 cup coconut milk
- 1/3 cup creamy peanut butter all natural preferable
- 2 tablespoons Kecap Manis sweet soy sauce
- 2 1/2 tablespoons brown sugar packed
- 2 1/4 tablespoons Thai red curry paste
- 2 tablespoons fish sauce optional – replace with soy sauce if desired
- ½ tablespoon Tamarind puree optional
- 1 pinch salt
- 1 teaspoon garlic minced
- 1-2 tablespoons lime juice freshly squeezed, adjust to your tastes
Instructions
- Combine all ingredients into a medium-sized saucepan EXCEPT for the lime juice. Bring to a boil, reduce heat and allow to simmer until combined and thickened (about 5-6 minutes). Once thickened, take off heat and stir in the lime juice (start with 1 tablespoon and adjust accordingly to suit your tastes).
- Serve over chicken, seafood, or beef!
Notes
- Nutritional information is calculated using reduced fat coconut milk and ‘light’ peanut butter. Serves 8 (about 1/3 cup per serve)
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Absolutely brilliant recipe. 100% recommend. So good, thank you.
Real easy to make and delicious on chicken
Great recipe! I’ve made this a few times now and never had to make any adjustments. Everyone loves it
Does it hold up if you premake a bunch and freeze it?
Can you use the greens curry paste instead by any chance ?
Very quick and easy to follow! Delicious sauce as well. I will definitely use this one again
Great cook