Peanut sauce
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| Chicken satay served with peanut sauce | |||||||||||||
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Peanut sauce, satay sauce, or kacang sambal is a sauce widely used in Indonesian cuisine, Malaysian cuisine, Thai cuisine, and Chinese cuisine. It is also used in European cuisine.
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[edit] Ingredients
The main ingredient is peanut butter which together with soy sauce gives it a salty and spicy taste. Several different recipes for making peanut sauces exist, which means that all these satay sauces taste differently. A home-made recipe usually contains peanut butter (smooth or crunchy), milk (coconut milk/low fat milk), soy sauce, and spices (such as ginger and others to make it spicier). Some peanut sauces also contain fried onions, sesame seed, olive oil or peanut.
[edit] Indonesian cuisine
Initially the sauce was meant as a sauce for satay, but it is also used in many other Indonesian dishes like Saté Babi, Saté Ayam, Gado-gado and Keredok.
[edit] Chinese cuisine
The sauce is often used for standard barbecue meat. Other cuisine style that utilize the sauce include hot pot and Dan dan noodles.
[edit] European cuisine
In the Netherlands, peanut sauce has become a common Dutch side dish and is usually eaten with meat (barbecue) or chips. Peanut sauce is also eaten with a baguette, bread, cucumber or potatoes.
[edit] Cross-cultural/fusion
In Singapore, peanut sauce is not only used as dipping sauce for satay. It is also eaten with rice vermicelli known as Satay bee hoon.
