Peanut Sauce (x0.5 scale)
Recipe by user david
A rich, Thai-style peanut sauce made with coconut milk, red curry paste, and fish sauce for satay, dipping, or dressing.
This deeply savory-sweet peanut sauce is indispensable with satay and equally good as a dip for Asian appetizers like cold spring rolls or alongside grilled meats. It’s made special by cooking red curry paste in coconut milk until the coconut oil rises, which blooms the spices and builds a fuller flavor. Thin it with a little water or coconut milk for a pourable salad dressing (especially for sprout salads like Indonesian gado-gado). For best texture, blend the peanuts into a fine meal, and let the sauce rest before serving so the flavors settle; re-stir to re-emulsify any oil that rises to the top.
- 75 g 75 g roasted unsalted peanuts
Blend or process the peanuts until they are fine meal. Reserve.
- 500 mL 500 mL (490 g) unsweetened coconut milk
- 1 Tbsp 1 Tbsp (16 g) thai red curry paste
Heat half the coconut milk in a saucepan at high heat and add the red curry paste. Stir to dissolve and continue cooking at high heat for 10-12 minutes, until the oil from the coconut has risen to the surface.
- 1 Tbsp 1 Tbsp (12 g) sugar
- 1 Tbsp, 1 1⁄2 tsp 1 Tbsp, 1 1⁄2 tsp (22 g) lemon juice
- 1 1⁄2 tsp 1 1⁄2 tsp (8 g) fish sauce
Lower heat to medium-high and add processed peanuts. Stir and add the rest of the coconut milk. Bring to bubbling boil. Lower heat to medium and add sugar, lemon juice and fish sauce. Cook, stirring occasionally, for 15-20 minutes, until the sauce has thickened somewhat and the oil has returned to the surface.
- water, as needed, for thinning
Take off the fire and let rest for a half hour. Stir to blend oil that has risen to the surface. It should be the consistency of thick cream. If thicker than that, add a couple of tablespoons of water or coconut milk and blend.
The sauce can be served lukewarm or reheated to piping hot. Leftover sauce can be refrigerated (where it will solidify) and then reheated on a slow fire, thinned down with some water or coconut milk. It can also be frozen, and reheated another day, the same way.
Notes
Indispensable with satay, this sauce also works as a nice dip for a number of other Asian appetizers (like cold spring rolls) and all kinds of grilled meats.
Thinned out with some water, it makes a beautiful salad dressing for sprout salads, like the Indonesian gado-gado.
Maesri, Wandee's favorite brand of red curry paste, comes in 4-oz/112-gm tins. You'll need half a tin per recipe and you can bag and freeze the rest for future use.
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