The Best Thai Peanut Sauce

Served this as a dipping sauce for grilled shrimp, and we thought it was delicious. After I took the photo, I did thin out a bit with more coconut milk. Used TJ's light coconut milk, and did increase the hot sauce a bit to suit our taste, otherwise, followed the recipe.

*Update* to my *Update* I made this again recently and while I was making it realized I'd done something, well.. odd. I had doubled every ingredient except the PB. So, yeah, I've got to re-star this, and I'm sorry to do so. But double everything else but the PB and you may find a BIG keeper in your recipe box. Old review follows: This recipe is a fantastic jumping-off point. I prefer chili paste to what "I" consider hot sauce (to us, that's Tabasco) so I used chili paste (sriracha would work well also). Mine was thick - good for a dipping sauce, but I thinned it out a bit with extra coconut milk to serve over rice noodles & leftover baked chicken. Oh, and chopped some peanuts in the food processor for the top. Just fantastic. I will ALWAYS keep coconut milk on hand now. AND my picky/Irish traditional husband loved it. One tip on using fresh ginger - toss it into a freezer bag and freeze it before grating, it goes much easier.

This peanut sauce is far too thick as written. I added a LOT more coconut milk and then had to adjust all of the other ingredients accordingly. I'm freezing some of this sauce for another family, so decided to add the cilantro later rather than mixing it in to keep it fresh-tasting. Servicable flavor, unfortunate texture, sorry. Thanks for letting me try it!

Super thick if made as written. Reduce the amount of peanut butter! Nothing like the peanut sauce at my favorite Thai rest. It just tasted to much like regular peanut butter with a little bit of spice to it. Maybe if i reduced the peanut butter by 1/2 i would have been able to taste the other ingredients. Probably wont make this version again.

This recipe was great. I changed it up quite a bit, starting with melting down peanuts instead of using peanut butter, because that attempt was too sweet. I also added a lot of kick to it. But, this recipe gave a great base to figure out how to make my own sauce. Thank you!