Asian Peanut Sauce and Salad Dressing
Spring is here!
Over here in California, it has been sunny and 70 degrees the past few days. Whenever it starts to get warm outside, I start craving cold, crunchy salads. And a salad is nothing without a good dressing. I created this peanut sauce dressing when I was making a Thai salad that had an ingredient list that was 15 items long. 15! Most of the ingredients I didn’t have, and if I bought them I wouldn’t use them very often. Enter my two ingredient peanut sauce I whipped up with items I already had in my kitchen. It tastes great, and it saved me a trip to the store. Double win!
This is now of my favorite Asian peanut salad dressing. It uses peanut butter and sweet chili sauce, which you can easily find everywhere now. Even Trader Joe’s has it. It also doubles as a great peanut dipping sauce for things like crab rangoon, or to dress on cold soba noodles with veggies. The possibilities are endless. My favorite way to use it is coming up on Thursday. Oh the suspense!
Asian Peanut Sauce and Salad Dressing
Ingredients
- 1 cup sweet chili sauce
- 1 tablespoon + 1 teaspoon peanut butter can use creamy or crunchy
Instructions
- In a small mixing bowl, mix the ingredients until combined. The measurements depend on the thickness of your peanut butter. Feel free to add a little more sweet chili sauce or more peanut butter if necessary.
- Will keep in an airtight container for 2 weeks.
Nutrition
Nutrition facts are calculated as a courtesy and not guaranteed.
42 Comments on “Asian Peanut Sauce and Salad Dressing”
This is a delicious dressing with bold flavors. Thank you for sharing this recipe. It changed up my salad routine and the umami in it is incredible!
I’m so happy to hear that! Thank you!
ok how long does this last…I have some havent used…bought it in november…now january…
You mean the sweet chili sauce? I would check the date on the bottle.
Great info. Lucky me I ran across your website by accident (stumbleupon).
I have book-marked it for later!
So i made this tonight. It was good. I had to added about twice as much peanut butter, but the recipe is a good ratio because you can always add more if you need and different sauces / peanut butters offer different sweetness’s. I squeezed a half lime in to mine and it REALLY lightened it up a bunch and brought out some of the other flavors. So i’d definitely recommend that, as well as refrigerating before serving as it seems to bring it all together. Lots of stirring involved. Onions in the salad + thai peanut sauce = a good time. Great simple recipe! Thanks for the idea!!!
This looks delicious!! I would love to have some of this on a salad or with some grilled chicken.
I’ve done it on grilled chicken before! Actually, it was chicken kabobs I grilled and this made a fantastic dipping sauce. So good! Thanks for your sweet comment Cindy : )
I love how simple this is! I actually just tried to make an asian dressing last week that required me to buy six new oils and vinegars etc and I decided against it. This is so much better and cheaper!!
Ah, I had the exact same experience! Asian cooking can call for so many ingredients I don’t already have. I’ll buy them and it costs a ton, and then they just sit in the pantry taking up space. That’s what I love about this one! You should definitely give it a try next time. So good! Thanks for your sweet comment Rachel : )
I could almost SWIM in that dressing it’s so beautiful. Send some sun my way? :-)