Authentic Thai Peanut Sauce
Thai Peanut Sauce is sweet and spicy, with a rich nuttiness that blends beautifully with the flavor of grilled meat. This recipe brings the authentic flavor of this unique sauce directly into your home!
Servings 1.5 cups
Calories 734kcal
Equipment
- Pestle and Mortar
Ingredients
- 1¼ cup coconut milk
- 2 Tbsp red curry paste maesri
- ½ cup roasted and unsalted peanuts
- 1 Tbsp Palm Sugar if your palm sugar comes in a block you can use a knife to shred it into slices that equal 1 Tbsp
- 1 Tbsp Tamarind Paste
- 1 tsp fish sauce or salt to taste
Instructions
- Use a mortar and pestle or a food processor to grind your peanuts until they are a little thicker than a dry sand texture. It is okay to have larger pieces in the blend as well.
- Add about ¼ - ⅓ cup of coconut milk into a pot over medium heat and bring it to a boil. Then add the red curry paste and stir until smooth.
- Stir continuously over medium heat until the coconut oil separates from the coconut milk.
- Pour in the remainder of the coconut milk as well as the peanuts, palm sugar, and tamarind paste.
- Allow the sauce to simmer for about 5-10 minutes until the sauce thickens. Serve and enjoy!
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Notes
Recipe researched using Thai Kitchen with Rinda, Pailin’s Kitchen, and Thai Girl in the Kitchen. Recipe Copyright The Foreign Fork. For educational or personal use only.
- Coconut milk: Do not use coconut cream or your sauce will be too thick.
- Roasted and unsalted peanuts: Make sure to use unsalted peanuts so that you can control the amount of salt in your recipe.
- Tamarind Paste: You can substitute some white vinegar
- Fish sauce: If you don’t want to purchase it, you can just use salt. If you do purchase some, you can also use it to flavor curry or to make Fish Soup.
- You don’t want to grind your peanuts into peanut butter. A little texture adds more to this sauce. You want your peanuts to resemble dry sand, with some large chunks
- Cook your curry in your coconut milk until you start to see some oil separate from the mixture. This means your curry is frying in the coconut milk and releasing even more flavor!
- You will know that your peanut sauce is done when it has thickened and can easily coat the back of a spoon.
Nutrition
Calories: 734kcal | Carbohydrates: 32g | Protein: 16g | Fat: 66g | Saturated Fat: 40g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 5g | Monounsaturated Fat: 15g | Sodium: 361mg | Potassium: 801mg | Fiber: 5g | Sugar: 14g | Vitamin A: 3154IU | Vitamin C: 4mg | Calcium: 100mg | Iron: 8mg