Here’s a recipe for our favorite Peanut Sauce! It is the perfect dipping sauce for Spring Rolls, or makes a great dressing for Thai Noodle Salad, or Buddha Bowls. Its secret ingredient will have you craving it and coming back for more! Simple, healthy, vegan!
This bright and refreshing peanut sauce recipe originates from our former vegetarian restaurant, and if you’ve been here a while, you’ll already know it form our ever popular Thai Noodle Salad Recipe. Lately, we’ve been dipping our vegan Spring Rolls in it and spooning it over Buddha Bowls. It’s a delicious, versatile sauce -just read all the 5-star reviews!
Why You’ll Love Our Favorite Peanut Sauce
- It’s light, healthy and not cloyingly sweet. You’ll want to drink it, literally!
- It only takes 5 minutes to make!
- It’s not overly thick, coating salads and veggies well but not drowning them.
- It is pleasingly balanced, hitting all the right notes on the palate.
- The addition of fresh-squeezed orange juice brings this recipe to life, and its the secret ingredient that elevates it and has us all craving more.
Now, if you want a thicker style, Satay Sauce, I really like Suwannee’s 5-minute Satay Sauce.
Thai Peanut Sauce Ingredients
- Peanut butter -look for all-natural peanut butter, unsweetened, not highly processed, and organic if possible. Either crunchy peanut butter or smooth peanut butter will work here! If there are peanut allergies, almond butter works too!
- Garlic and ginger – use fresh, for the best flavor!
- Sesame oil – to give a smoky depth
- Fresh orange juice– the secret ingredient!
- Fresh Lime Juice
- Soy sauce or GF liquid aminos
- Sweetener: use maple syrup or honey
- Heat: cayenne or sriracha
How to make Peanut Sauce
Peanut Sauce is speedy and easy to make. Simply add the ingredients to the blender and blend until smooth! Adjust salt and heat levels to your liking!
Storing Thai Peanut Sauce
Peanut Sauce can be stored in the fridge for up to 5 days, in a sealed glass jar. It can also be frozen for up to 6 months!
Ways to Use Peanut Sauce:
You’ll find so many ways to serve up peanut sauce once you give this a try, but here are some of my go-to recipes that are delicious with peanut sauce:
- As a Dipping Sauce. Try our Healthy Vegan Spring Rolls with Peanut Sauce Recipe.
- As a dressing, or use it to bathe Thai noodles and healthy veggies in this Thai Noodle Salad!
- Drizzle over Buddha Bowls!
- Drizzle over Crispy tofu
- Use peanut sauce in Thai Burritos and Tacos!
More Recipes you may enjoy!
Hope you love our peanut sauce as much as we do! Again, if you are looking for a thicker style “satay sauce”, I love Suwanne’s 5-Minute Satay Sauce recipe!
Please remember to rate this recipe for us and share your feedback in the comments below. ❤️ Have a fabulous week.-xo
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How to Make Peanut Sauce
- Prep Time: 10 mins
- Total Time: 10 minutes
- Yield: 2 cups
- Category: sauce, thai food
- Method: Blended
- Cuisine: Thai
- Diet: Vegan
Description
An easy recipe for our favorite Peanut Sauce! Make this in 5 minutes- it’s healthy vegan and GF adaptable. Keeps for 5 days in the fridge, or freeze for later.
Ingredients
- 6 thin slices of ginger- cut across the grain, about the size of a quarter. (No need to peel)
- 2 fat cloves garlic
- 1/2 cup fresh orange juice (roughly 1 large orange)
- 1/3 cup lime juice ( 2 limes)
- 1/4 cup soy sauce or Gluten-free Braggs Liquid Amino Acids (Note: Tamari will turn this unpleasantly dark)
- 1/3 cup maple syrup, ( or honey, palm sugar or agave,)more to taste
- 1/3 cup toasted sesame oil (6 tablespoons)
- 1/2 cup unsweetened peanut butter (chunky or smooth, or sub almond butter!)
- 1 teaspoon salt
- optional: 1 -2 teaspoons cayenne pepper (or a squirt of sriracha sauce)
Instructions
- Place all ingredients in a blender – ginger, garlic, orange juice, lime juice, soy sauce, maple, sesame oil, and peanut butter and salt, and blend until smooth. Taste. Adjust sweetness, salt and cayenne to your liking.
- Note: Unripe limes can make this too tart. Adjust by adding more sweetness. Find your perfect balance.
- Use this on salads, or as a dipping sauce for spring rolls and satays.
Notes
- The Orange Juice makes this… and is a MUST!
- Peanut sauce will last up to 5 days in a sealed jar in the fridge.
- Peanut Sauce can be frozen, just whisk well after thawing.
- For added depth or “umami”, feel free to add a tiny splash of fish sauce. Not necessary though!
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 3 tablespoons
- Calories: 189
- Sugar: 9.1 g
- Sodium: 695.1 mg
- Fat: 14.9 g
- Saturated Fat: 2.5 g
- Carbohydrates: 12.2 g
- Fiber: 0.8 g
- Protein: 3.8 g
- Cholesterol: 0 mg
I used almond butter, almonds, whole chunks of an orange and maple syrup. Everything else the same. Fantastic!! Sooo good with the spring rolls.
Perfect Krystal!
Being a Canadian I added Maple Syrup instead of honey.
Maple syrup is a tremendous, but underrated and under used substitute for all things sweet.
I use maple syrup a lot as well- love it as a sweetener and it is perfect in this recipe.
Amen to maple syrup being used in this recipe, from the maple syrup capital of the world! 🍁 🥜 🥗
This will be my first review I have ever left on a recipe website. My hobby is cooking, and I try a lot of online recipes. My favourite food is Vietnamese/Thai. I have tried endless Thai peanut sauce recipes and I give this 5 stars because it is closest to the best sauce I have tried in authentic restaurants. Thank you for this. The layers of flavour are throughout, and I can’t believe I made it! I blended with a stick blender, and it is runnier than needs to be. Next time I’ll blend part way and stir the rest to keep it thicker. But it was beautiful!
thanks- glad you liked it!
Hello! Would this make a good marinade? I am thinking of using it for tofu and brussels sprouts.
I’m not sure? I havent used it that way! Let us know if you try it. Go to Bali Bowls and maybe look at that marinade? Similar!
It really is the best ever! I love the little kick from the cayenne pepper.
Thanks Kristen- glad you liked it!
Thank you for delicious recipe!
Thanks Gabi
Excellent recipe! And very helpful tips too!
I have been SCEARCHING for so long to find a peanut sauce that I even like. This taste like the Thai restaurants peanut sauce that I go to in town. So pleased, thank you!!
Hi, confirming this recipe calls for 6 *tablespoons* of toasted sesame oil? Seems like you would have said 1/2 cup if that were correct. Sounds delicious, but need to confirm. Thanks!
6 tablespoons is closer to 1/3 cup. 🙂 8 tablespoons in a 1/2 cup.
The peanut sauce was absolutely amazing! My kids loved this! I always have my kids (ages 14 & 17) rate my meals and they both said this was in their “top 5” for vegan meals! They got a kick out of the see through “weird” rice wraps. Lol! 😉
So easy to make and tastes amazing! My family loves it! 🙂
This is so good. The second time I made this sauce, I replaced the palm sugar with Jaggery. Even more delicious!
Loved this recipe, I added shrimp to some. Delicious peanut sauce recipe, lots left over, that I will put in the freezer.
this recipe is definitely the best!!!! and so very easy! Much easier and much better than any peanut sauce I have made before.
I have made this 3 times since new years eve- and it’s the BEST. Tried making it without the orange as I was out of oranges yesterday- it just wasn’t the same. Recommend following the recipe to the point! This sauce is soooo good.
So tasty and fresh! Shredding the veggies finely makes it easier wrapping the spring rolls tightly so that they don’t fall out so easy when dipping them in the sauce.
Can i use coconut aminos instead?
yes, absolutely.
This honestly is so delicious! I too was leaking the sauce off the processor, actually was drinking it too! Yumm!! Thank you.
This really is the best ever peanut sauce! It is super easy to make, too. Just throw it in a blender! I’ve tried other recipes that require cooking the sauce. This sauce is so simple and good!
Thanks, I think its the best Peanut Sauce too. I may be biased though.
Awesome!!!
haha. xoxo Glad you liked it Joelle.
Delicious! We love this recipe. We have tweaked it a bit after making it several times. I now use a couple dates and 1/3 cup of water instead of the honey/sugar. And we think it’s too hot with even one teaspoon of cayenne, so we use a half teaspoon. We’re so grateful we found this recipe! Thank you so much for it!
Could you use maple syrop instead of honey? Or will it change the flavor?
yes!
Just made this tonight for dipping the spring rolls in and it definitely is the best peanut sauce ever!
Can you make this with lemon instead of lime
juice?
Yes!
This sauce is awesome, my husband and I love it!