Peanut sauce

Savory peanut sauce, which is also called satay sauce, has a peculiar nutty taste with subtle notes of coconut. Most often, peanut sauce is used as an additive for barbecue dishes, and also acts as a deep sauce.

Peanut sauce came from national cuisines in Malaysia and Indonesia, where it enjoys extraordinary popularity and then conquered virtually the world. Many Asian kushanyas use peanut sauce, complementing and toning dishes with their sweet, island-spicy walnut-coconut flavors.

It is worth saying that peanut sauce is great for fried or boiled chicken or pork, giving ordinary dishes an Asian flavor. If you prefer European cuisine, you can use peanut sauce to dip, serving it to fries or any meat. Chinese dishes involve the use of peanut satay sauce with pork or rice noodles.

By the way, in Thai, Indonesian and Malaysian cuisines, the word satay is usually understood as a small kebab, which is pickled (usually in peanut sauce), and then cooked on bamboo skewers on charcoal. To prepare such a dish, you can use different types of meat: chicken, pork or beef, as well as tofu, vegetables and seafood: squid, shrimp.

The composition of industrial peanut sauce provides for the use of such ingredients as soybean oil, peanuts, sugar, coconut chips, shallots, peanut paste, salt, sesame seed, dried shrimp, spices, pepper, shrimp powder and pasta, curry paste, garlic powder. Interestingly, a rather tasty and almost identical in taste peanut sauce can be prepared at home.

To do this, you need to heat the pan with peanut butter well until liquid is released from it. After that, gradually, with stirring, curry paste is added to the oil. The resulting mixture is fried in a frying pan for a few minutes - until the flavor of the spices takes on a richer hue.

Meanwhile, fried peanuts are crushed in the blender, which is then added to the hot mixture. Sugar (better cane), peanut paste and sesame oil are added to them. Once the mixture has a uniform structure, chilli sauce is introduced and coconut milk is gradually added. With constant stirring, the peanut sauce boils for another couple of minutes.

If ready, it can be diluted with fish or chicken broth so that it becomes somewhat fat. In addition, some advise spraying the resulting peanut sauce with lime juice.