Chinese peanut sauce is a delicious sauce made of peanut butter and soy sauce. You can use it as a marinade or even make a pan sauce with it for cooking chicken.
This recipe has been recently updated to help you achieve the perfect Chinese peanut sauce with chicken and noodles. 1/30/20
How to make Peanut Sauce
Whisk the peanut butter, water, soy sauce, and sugar, in a small bowl until well combined. Set aside.
In a nonstick skillet over medium heat add the olive oil. Add the onions and garlic to the pan and cook until heated through or soft; 3 to 5 minutes. Season with crushed red pepper flakes.
Add diced chicken to the pan and cook until the chicken is heated through. 3 to 5 minutes. The chicken is done when it is no longer pink in the middle. I usually take one chicken piece out and cut it to see if it is cooked.
Add the peanut sauce to the pan and continue cooking for another 2 to 3 minutes until everything is heated through.
If the sauce is too thick add small amounts of water until you like the consistency.
Serve with cooked noodles.
Tips for Chinese Peanut Sauce
What can you do with peanut sauce? You can use it for dipping those yummy spring rolls, chicken satay, stir-fry, lettuce wraps, or make thai peanut noodle salad. I made a delicious peanut chicken stir fry with noodles for this recipe.
For the peanut butter, I prefer brands like Jiff or Skippy and it can be crunchy or creamy. If you have a peanut allergy, almond butter is ok to use as well. You might need to adjust the amount of water you add into the sauce first to ¼ cup. Use real peanut butter too, please. It tastes better than PB2 for this dish.
To make this sauce gluten-free sub coconut Aminos or tamari instead of soy sauce.
To make the sauce smooth and creamy use a food processor, instead of whisking the sauce in a bowl.
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Chinese Peanut Sauce
- Prep Time: 5 min
- Cook Time: 10 min
- Total Time: 20 min
- Yield: 4 to 6 1x
Ingredients
Peanut Sauce:
½ cup peanut butter
½ cup water
2 tablespoons soy sauce
2 tablespoons sugar
Chinese Peanut Sauce Stir Fry
2 large chicken breasts, diced into cubes
2 teaspoon of olive oil
2 cloves garlic, minced
¼ cup onion, diced
pinch of red pepper flakes
Cooked Spaghetti Noodles for serving
2 scallions, diced (0ptional)
Instructions
Peanut Sauce: Whisk the peanut butter, water, soy sauce, and sugar, in a small bowl until well combined. Set aside.
Peanut Sauce Stir Fry: In a nonstick skillet over medium heat add the olive oil. Add the onions and garlic to the pan and cook until heated through or soft; 2 to 3 minutes. Season with crushed red pepper flakes.
Add diced chicken to the pan and cook until the chicken is heated through. 4 to 6 minutes. The chicken is done when it is no longer pink in the middle. I usually take one chicken piece out and cut it to see if it is cooked.
Add the peanut sauce to the pan and continue cooking for another 2 to 3 minutes until everything is heated through.
If the sauce is too thick add small amounts of water until you like the consistency.
Serve with cooked noodles.
Serving Size: ¾ cup of chicken with sauce
Notes
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- Category: Easy
- Method: Stovetop
- Cuisine: Asian
Nutrition
- Serving Size: ¾ cup
- Calories: 212
- Sugar: 9g
- Sodium: 590mg
- Fat: 13g
- Saturated Fat: 2g
- Unsaturated Fat: 2g
- Carbohydrates: 16g
- Fiber: 1g
- Protein: 10g
Keywords: Chinese peanut sauce
Jenna says
Try it and find out. There are other ingredients to it other than just peanut butter.
Pat says
does this sauce actually taste like peanut butter or does it taste like peanut sauce?there is a big difference
Jenna says
That sounds great. Will definitely have to try that!