There are fewer things I enjoy in life more than a delicious peanut sauce. You see, I started experimenting with different ethnic cuisines a bit later in life than most. It wasn’t until I was 25 years old that I first tasted peanut sauce, but I fell in love immediately. I would compare it to the first time Michael Jordon picked up a basketball. We were meant to be. During my 2 years in San Francisco I had some of the best Thai food, and since moving to Philadelphia and starting a keto diet I haven’t been able to enjoy my all time favorite dipping sauce. That is, until I got into the kitchen late one night and whipped up this sensational Low Carb Peanut Sauce!
Easy Peanut Sauce
Not only is this thai peanut sauce low carb, but it’s also low effort! There is no cooking required. You basically just throw everything in a blender and turn it on, and what comes out is a delicious sauce suitable for bathing just about every food in your house in it. Peanut chicken anyone?
Preparing Your Low Carb Peanut Sauce
There’s a few variable to play with here that can vary from person to person. The first being the sweetness. We go for 10 drops of stevia in here, but turn that up or down as you see fit. 10 drops is not as sweet as most sauces you’ll get when ordering take out. That would be closer to 20 drops. Conversely, you can turn this into a spicy peanut sauce if you’d like by adding some chilis! Next up is the oiliness and fat content. We use a natural peanut butter that is on the oily side. If you use a peanut butter that is thicker, like the JIF/Skippy type of peanut butter, you’re going to want to add about 1 tbsp of additional oil. I’d recommend sesame oil, but any oil will do.
Da Blender
The name of the kitchen appliance you’ll be preparing this in and also my NBA Street character that made it all the way to Rucker Park and eventually the NBA. He was a crafty point guard with a silky jumper that could also throw down like Vince Carter. Because why wouldn’t he be? You’ll want to consider the blade clearance on your blender for this. The volume of sauce for this recipe comes out to around 1 cup, so if 1 cup of liquid doesn’t reach your blender blade you will be left with a sad partially mixed peanut sauce underneath your blade. It happened to us… You can either double the recipe or if you have something like a magic bullet style blender it should work fine.
This sauce pairs perfectly with our crispy chicken wing recipes, as well as our keto pad that!
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Low Carb Peanut Sauce
Ingredients:
Peanut Sauce
- 1/2 cup Peanut Butter
- 1/2 Inch ground ginger
- 2 cloves garlic
- 2 tbsp liquid aminos
- 1 tbsp lime juice(or rice wine vinegar)
- 10 drops Liquid Stevia
- 1/2 tsp Red Pepper Flakes
- 1/4 cup Water
Garnish
- 1/4 cup chopped peanuts(optional)
- 2 tbsp sliced green onions (optional)
Instructions:
- Add all the ingredients listed to your blender along with half of the water listed and blend for 30 seconds.
- Check the consistency. If it needs to be thinner add more water. Repeat this process until the sauce is the thickness you desire.
- Top with chopped peanuts and green onion. Serve and enjoy!
Notes
Written by
Matt Gaedke
Matt is a former college basketball player turned computer engineer who discovered his passion for health and nutrition after cutting sugar from his diet in 2016. That year he founded KetoConnect with Megha in order to share their ketogenic lifestyle through recipes, videos, and educational content. Matt is always seeking to grow and try new things, a passion he shares with his wife and two amazing sons.
Can I just buy a jar of this from you?
Unfortunately, no, sorry 🙂
So so good, thank you! I’ve been putting this on nearly everything lately. Today I stirred a tablespoon of this into my bowl of your Keto Egg Roll in a Bowl and the results were epic. EPIC!
Can this be used as a salad dressing? I’m looking for something similar to Trader Joe’s Thai peanut dressing. And how much is the serving size (2 tbsp.?).
Hi Vee! I think this might be a great salad dress, though I’ve never tried it that way. This recipe makes 6 total servings. The nutrition information listed is per serving. Enjoy!
Made an adaptation of this tonight (didn’t have aminos,and used sesame oil)..it is super yum and I put it over “zoodles” as a sort of thick peanut sauce. DELISH! Thank you for sharing your recipe!!
Oh thankfully found a replacement for liquid aminos. That was the only ingredient I didn’t have!
Half an inch of ground ginger or fresh ginger?
Fresh!
I can’t wait to try the peanut sauce… You list 1/2 inch ground ginger… Are you using fresh? Or if it’s ground, is it 1/2 tsp?
1/2 inch nub of a fresh ginger root!
The recipe says 1/2 inch ground ginger? Is it half an inch of fresh ginger? Or if it is ground giver, how much?
half inch of a fresh ginger nub – you would remove the outer skin and grate the fresh ginger for half inch.
Amazing recipe! I used this sauce on some miracle noodle fettuccine to make a keto pad thai! absolutely delicious thanks! 🙂
Two things….have you tried Erythritol instead of Stevia? (I don’t like the aftertaste) AND in looking at the carb content of “natural” peanut butter (peanuts/salt only) then checking that against good ole Jiff (with all its sugar) there is only a couple of carbs difference in that same 2 tablespoon serving??!!!
Super good! I used a small packet of powdered SweetLeaf Stevia instead of the liquid and it was just right. I had this with a West End Cuisine Chicken Skewer (from Costco) and loved it. Thanks so much!
Jes, walmart sells it a heck of alot cheaper
I am super excited to try this recipe. I love, love, love peanut sauce. Looks like peanut chicken is on the menu this weekend! Thanks for sharing.
Made this last night and had it with riced cauliflower and it was amazing! Thank you!!
The peanut butter you linked is $28 a jar? Holy moly.
Is liquid stevia a must? Or could I use packets instead? If so, how many?
You could use packets. Not sure the conversion, but i would guess maybe 4 packets? It can be as sweet as you’d like, or you can just leave out the sweetener.
Can this be used as a marinade, or is it more for dipping?
More of a dipping sauce. It’s a bit too thick to be an effective marinade. Maybe you could add a bit more vinegar and water to it? Not sure how that would work out though.
Hi there, this looks amazing!
How long will it keep, or is it a blitz it and use it kind of deal?
Thanks,
Amy
Cover it and place in the fridge and it should last you a few days. If you bottle it up nicely and give it a good shake before using it might even last you a week or 2.
This seems really delicious. But it does violate your guideline of 1 net carb/150 calories. Especially if you have more than 1/6 of the sauce at a time. Not complaining, just want to make myself (and others) aware.
Ya, not all of our recipes will meet those guidelines. Items like this and many of our desserts are things you will have to plan to fit into your daily macros.
I love your recipes so much and have a long list of all the ones I intend to make. 😀
But there is something that is giving me a headache. Being from the other side of the pond (U.K) we don’t use cup measurements we use grams and Kilograms(unless your pre 1980 then its ounces and pounds-I’m not! lol). Pretty please with stevia on top 😛 Is it possible for the new recipes that you release to be in gram measurements as well as cups? 🙂
Jennifer,
Hi there, I am also from the UK and found most awesome Keto receipes to be from the US and in cup measurements. I used this site until I got used to the difference, or another easy option is just buying the cup meaures (less than £2 with free delivery). See two links newly respectively:
https://www.dovesfarm.co.uk/resources/conversion-tables/us-cups-conversion-table/
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00F849SD8/ref=cm_sw_r_oth_api_Q411yb6E25FNG
Yum! I’m nuts about Asian peanut sauces!!!! I saw this somewhere….. someone posted it; I can’t remember where. I was like, What??? I watch KC all of the time and I’ve never seen this sauce! I will be keeping this on tap, boys and girls!!
Lila,
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