Peanut sauce

Peanut sauce is a condiment made with peanuts and sometimes coconut milk, soy sauce, garlic, or chili pepper. Cooks use it as a dressing and pair it with meat, vegetables, fries, or bread.

Allergen: peanuts
May contain soy

About the plain ingredient, not packaged products; general information, not medical advice. Details

Category: Condiments & seasonings
Cooked most in: Asia
Top country: Indonesia
Dishes: 9 in the catalogue

Photo: Gunawan Kartapranata · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

In the kitchen

How to use peanut sauce

Typical ways to cook or use it

Dressing

Made from

peanut
coconut milk (sometimes)
soy sauce (sometimes)
tamarind (sometimes)
galangal (sometimes)
garlic (sometimes)
coriander seed (sometimes)
cumin seed (sometimes)
chili pepper (sometimes)
sugar (sometimes)
fried onion (sometimes)
lemongrass (sometimes)
hoisin sauce (sometimes)

Preparing it

Adjust the amount of water to change the sauce's consistency.

Goes well with

meat
vegetable
fries
mayonnaise
bread
cucumber
potato

Around the world

Where peanut sauce is cooked

9 dishes in the catalogue use peanut sauce. Here is where they come from.

Dishes by continent

Asia8

Countries whose dishes use it most

Indonesia 8

Counts are catalogued dishes from each country that list peanut sauce among their ingredients.

On the table

Dishes made with peanut sauce

7 of the 9 catalogued dishes that use it, spread across the countries they come from.

Gado-gado
Indonesia
Karedok
Indonesia
Rice lengko
Indonesia
Nasi tempong
Indonesia
Rojak
Indonesia
Ketoprak
Indonesia
Doclang
Indonesia

Dish lists come from Wikidata; a dish counts when its recorded ingredients include peanut sauce.

Good to know

Diet and allergens: peanut sauce in detail

These notes describe the plain ingredient. Packaged and prepared products vary, so read the label; for allergies and medical diets ask a doctor or dietitian.

Allergens: Contains: peanutsSometimes soy (only when the optional ingredient is used)

Family

Related forms

A kind of: sauce
Kinds: satay sauce

Around the world

What peanut sauce is called

Names in 19 languages, from Wikidata.

Italian
salsa di arachidi
German
Erdnusssauce
Dutch
pindasaus · satésaus
Russian
арахисовый соус
Polish
sos satay
Arabic
صلصة الفول السوداني
Persian
سس بادام‌زمینی
Hebrew
רוטב בוטנים
Chinese
印尼花生酱 · 花生醬
Japanese
ピーナッツソース
Indonesian
saus kacang · saus bumbu kacang · bumbu kacang
Malay
Bumbu kacang

Show all 19 languages

Betawi
Saus kacang
Esperanto
ternuksa saŭco
Javanese
Sambel kacang
Minangkabau
Saus kacang
Slovenian
omaka satay
Sundanese
sambel suuk
Ukrainian
Арахісовий соус

Sources and credits

Data

GlobeCooks editorial: descriptions, kitchen notes and classification, written by GlobeCooks from checked sources
Wikidata: names, classification and dishes (CC0 1.0)
Wikimedia Commons: photos

Wikidata item: Q2480049

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