Peanut Sauce | Leanne Brown & Embodied Cooking (2024)

FAQs

Why is peanut sauce healthy? ›

Nutritionally, studies have found that eating peanuts or peanut butter has been associated with a reduced risk of cancer, heart disease and diabetes. They're also an inexpensive protein and healthy fat source. This peanut sauce has a nice kick to it with the Sriracha, which is a chili sauce.

Peanut sauce, satay sauce (saté sauce), bumbu kacang, sambal kacang, or pecel is an Indonesian sauce made from ground roasted or fried peanuts, widely used in Indonesian cuisine and many other dishes throughout the world.

This happens when there's too much fat or liquid in the mixture. This can happen when there are not enough emulsifiers (which help keep your ingredients together). Sauces are usually made from multiple ingredients that include both oil and water. Oils and water will naturally separate.

If the oil is separating from the sauce a bit (this can happen from the oil in the coconut milk and the peanut butter, but it's easy to fix!), add water a few drops at a time and whisk until it comes smoothly back together.

Also just called peanut sauce or satay sauce, this dipping sauce is a flavorful part of Southeast Asian cuisine, especially Indonesian cuisine, where it's called bumbu kacang or sambal kacang.

Are peanuts inflammatory? The short answer is no, and in fact, peanuts and some peanut products like peanut butter have been shown to be anti-inflammatory. Inflammation in the body is a mechanism thought to be at the center of the majority of chronic diseases.

Kitchen Tip: Make ahead. Peanut sauce will keep for up to a week in a refrigerated airtight container.

Although commonly associated with Thai cuisine, peanut sauce actually originated in Indonesia (source). What Americans know as peanut sauce is more commonly referred to as satay sauce (or bumbu kacang) in Indonesia, because it's most often served with the popular Indonesian dish, satay (skewered, grilled meats).

Peanut sauce is the classic dipping sauce for chicken satay (grilled chicken skewers) and makes a delicious dipping sauce for rice paper rolls, shrimp, potstickers, tempura and fresh vegetables including cucumber slices, carrot sticks and red pepper strips.

Too salty? You probably added too much soy sauce. Counteract this by adding more peanut butter, sugar, or water.

Is watery peanut butter bad? ›

That's not a sign of spoilage, but is a natural occurrence as the oil separates.

Why is my peanut sauce lumpy? If your ingredients aren't all the same temperature, your sauce and get lumpy. To prevent this you can gently warm the ingredients in a glass mixing bowl then whisk to combine.

A: Oil separation in SKIPPY® Peanut Butter products is typically due to the product getting too warm at some point while it was shipped or stored.

From a nutritional standpoint, crunchy peanut butter is often the better option. It is lower in calories and sugar and contains small pieces of peanuts that provide extra fiber and protein. Creamy peanut butter, however, is easier to use in recipes that require a smooth texture.

Peanuts and peanut butter have mostly monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats, sometimes called the 'good fats'. When these fats replace saturated fat in the diet, they lower total and “bad” LDL cholesterol as well as triglyceride levels, while keeping “good” HDL cholesterol high.

One of the main fats in peanut butter is oleic acid. When substituted for other fats in your diet, oleic acid helps maintain good cholesterol, blood sugar, and blood pressure. Managing these levels in your body can lower the risk of heart disease. Peanut butter also contains omega-6 fatty acid.

Peanuts are rich in protein, fat, and fiber. While peanuts may have a large amount of fat, most of the fats they contain are known as “good fats.” These kinds of fats actually help lower your cholesterol levels. Peanuts are also an excellent source of: Magnesium.

Peanut sauce contains 41 calories per 16 g serving. This serving contains 2.6 g of fat, 1 g of protein and 3.5 g of carbohydrate. The latter is 2.7 g sugar and 0.3 g of dietary fiber, the rest is complex carbohydrate. Peanut sauce contains 0.5 g of saturated fat and 0 mg of cholesterol per serving.