Easy Peanut Sauce Recipe
This creamy peanut sauce is better than takeout. An easy peanut sauce recipe perfect for noodles, chicken, and dipping. If you plan to use it heavily as a sauce for noodles or meal prep bowls, you may want to double the batch.
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup creamy peanut butter
- 2 tablespoons soy sauce
- 1 tablespoon hoisin sauce
- 1 tablespoon fresh lime juice
- 1 tablespoon honey
- 1/4 cup warm water (more as needed)
- Sriracha Sauce (optional)
Instructions
- Whisk together peanut butter, soy sauce, hoisin sauce, lime juice, honey, and ginger. Adjust consistency with warm water.
- For Spicy Peanut Sauce - Add sriracha sauce, to taste.
Notes
Consistency Is Key
- Add warm water 1 tablespoon at a time to reach desired thickness.
- Sauce thickens as it sits. Stir before serving and loosen with warm water if needed.
- For thicker sauce, whisk in additional peanut butter.
- Too salty: Add more peanut butter or a splash of warm water.
- Too sweet: Add extra lime juice.
- Too bland: Add more soy sauce for salt or lime juice for brightness.
- Want heat: Stir in red pepper flakes or sriracha gradually.
- Peanut sauce for noodles or rice bowls.
- Peanut dipping sauce for spring rolls, chicken, or vegetables.
- Store in an airtight container in the refrigerator up to 7 days.
- Reheat gently or microwave in short intervals, stirring between each.
- Freeze up to 2 months. Thaw overnight and whisk to recombine if separated.