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Thai Peanut Sauce. Thai Peanut Sauce Hands up, people. Is anyone out there as obsessed as I am with thai peanut sauce? Oh my goodness. That little jar in the Asian food aisle forever seems to be calling out my name. It is one of my favorite last-minute dinner secrets to making a yummy stir fry, a quick Asian salad, chicken satay, or whatever other peanut-y meal sounds good. But after years of buying the little jars, I have been itching to find an easy peanut sauce recipe to make at home. So for all of you peanut sauce lovers like me, I hope you’ll give it a try homemade! A quick and simple recipe for peanut sauce that can be used in everything from a stir-fry, to chicken satay, to a salad, and more! Ingredients: Directions: Combine all ingredients except sesame oil in a medium saucepan and bring to a very gentle boil over medium heat, whisking constantly.

Let the mixture simmer for 3-5 minutes over low heat; be careful not to let the mixture scorch at the bottom of the pot. Leave a Comment: Trackbacks/Pingbacks. Vietnamese Dipping Sauce Recipe (Fish Sauce-Based) Getting the hang of making this Vietnamese dipping sauce (nước chấm) is an important step to making your cuisine just right. Since it’s just about everywhere in Vietnamese cooking, it’s simply referred to as “dipping sauce”. I used the Three Crabs brand fish sauce. Depending on the kind you use, you will need to adjust the amount used. This nước chấm deal is all about making it to fit your taste. Commonly Eaten With… Of course there other types of sauces Vietnamese people use, but this is the one primarily made with fish sauce.

For different dishes there are slight variations on nước chấm, but we will use this as a base recipe and let you adjust it to your liking. Brewing A Batch Citrus – Start by mixing the water with sugar and lime or lemon. Fish sauce – Slowly add the fish sauce in increments to slowly reach what the recipe calls for and taste it along the way.

Optional additions – Add chopped chilies or finely chopped garlic to the sauce if you like. Variations Ingredients Instructions. Miso Sesame Dressing Recipe - Allrecipes.com. Make your own sweet chilli jam | Make Your Own. Many chilli jam recipes call for peppers, or ginger, or garlic, or tomatoes, or … well, you name it. But all you really need is sugar, chillies (obviously), vinegar and a source of pectin, which makes jam set. Learn to combine these four, then you can start adding bells and whistles. But this recipe, adapted from the blog A Life of Geekery is good enough to stand on its own. Start by sterilising three or four small jars and their lids in the oven for 15 minutes at 140C/275F/gas mark 1.

It's fine to reuse them, so long as the seals are intact. While these are heating, place a saucer in the fridge (we'll explain why later), trim and deseed 150-200g of small red chillies, and either chop them up them finely or give them a quick whizz in a blender. Place the chillies in a large saucepan together with 400ml cider vinegar and either 1kg jam sugar (which includes pectin) or 1kg of normal sugar and two or three large cooking apples, which you have pierced in several places. Food - Recipes : Chilli-fried tofu with egg-fried rice. 20 Minute Sriracha Sauce. Friday, February 7, 2014 20 Minute Sriracha Sauce Like my label!? LOL Back before Sriracha was a “thing” – we just called it “red sauce” and squirted it on just about everything, including scrambled eggs. The original “rooster brand” Huy Fong recipe was so perfect that they had a virtual monopoly at Vietnamese restaurants and competitors didn’t even try to imitate their formula.

After the news of the temporary shutdown of Huy Fong operations in Irwindale, California, the people of the Internets went crazy. It’s actually easier than you think to make your own Sriracha – a food processor and medium pot is all you need. You can make your sauce thinner if you like – run the sauce through a blender to get it less chunky. While I love the original Huy Fong sauce, it’s missing balance and depth. Here’s what good flavor translates to – a balance of the 5 S’s: SaltySavorySourSpicySweet The perfect condiment should have all of these flavor elements. *Coconut Aminos is a new ingredient for me.