How To Make Satay Sauce? 6 variants!

Satay sauce is delicious with rice or noodles dishes, especially if you have Javanese or Indonesian satay sauce. But you can also use satay sauce for dipping. That too is happening more and more. Now you can buy satay sauce in the supermarket or you can make it yourself. In this blog, we give you ideas on how to make satay sauce.

How To Make Satay Sauce?

Mix water or milk with peanut butter. Heat this in a pan, do not let it boil. Now you can add other ingredients. Think of soy sauce, sambal, coriander, cumin, lemon juice. Mix well and heat up.

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Satay Sauce Recipe

Making satay sauce always starts with a recipe. Now there are many recipes to come up with. Comprehensive with up to 15 ingredients or even more. We keep it simple and start with a basic recipe of 4 ingredients. So simple, so quick and yet very tasty. These are the seasonings you need:

• 5 tablespoons peanut butter, level
• 2 -3 teaspoons sambal
• 250ml water
• 3 tablespoons sweet soy sauce
• 2 tablespoons soy sauce

This is the basic recipe. Several recipes are discussed below to make a tasty satay sauce for every occasion or for every recipe. Try them out and see which one you like.

Now we need to make a sauce from the ingredients.

Make your own satay sauce

Making the sauce is easy to do. You don’t have to be an experienced cook to make a tasty satay sauce. We use the ingredients from the basic recipe above to make the sauce. Preparation is as follows:

1. Place a pan on the heat source and put the water in the pan.
2. Heat the water, do not let it boil.
3. When it’s hot, the peanut butter goes into the pan. Now stir well.
4. Then add the soy sauce and sambal and stir this through the sauce.

Now you have made satay sauce. If the sauce is too thick, add a little more water. If the sauce is too thin, let it reduce for a while.

But the most important thing is yet to come, taste! Taste to see if the sauce is flavoured. If it is not spicy enough, add more sambal. If you want it sweeter, add soy sauce. This way you can make your own satay sauce and you do that by tasting. Good luck cooking and enjoy your meal!

Peanut butter satay sauce

Peanut butter is almost always used for making satay sauce. Whether it’s homemade peanut butter or peanut butter from the supermarket. Peanut butter is the main ingredient. ‘Smaak’ also has a recipe with their own peanut butter for satay sauce.

Satay sauce Gluten-free

Satay sauce is very easy to make gluten-free. Most ingredients are often gluten-free anyway, but often the Ketjap Manis is not. For this, you can buy gluten-free soy sauce and then you have homemade gluten-free satay sauce. You will need the following ingredients.

• 2 cloves garlic, crushed
• 2 cm fresh ginger, peeled and grated
• 1 tbsp oil for frying
• 2 tbsp gluten-free soy sauce Manis
• 5 tablespoons peanut butter
• 1 tsp sambal
• pinch ground cumin
• 200 coconut milk

Preparation is as follows:

1. Place a pan on the heat source together with the oil and heat it up.
2. Saute the garlic and ginger briefly.
3. Then add the soy sauce, sambal, cumin and fry briefly.
4. Then add the water and peanut butter and mix it all together.
5. Keep stirring and do not let the sauce boil.

Now you have gluten-free satay sauce. If the sauce is too thick, add a little more water. If the sauce is too thin, let it reduce for a while.

Here too, test. Taste to see if the sauce is flavoured. You can now season the sauce. Add more sambal or cumin if necessary. This is entirely up to you. See what tastes good to you and add additional ingredients if necessary. Good luck with cooking.

Making Javanese Satay Sauce

The Javanese satay sauce has a completely different taste than the ‘normal’ satay sauce. There are more spices in it that certainly affect the taste. Try the recipe below for Javanese Satay Sauce. What do you need:

• 2 cloves garlic, crushed
• 1 onion, chopped
• 2 tablespoons oil
• 250 grams of peanut butter
• 1/2 teaspoon ground cumin
• 1/2 tablespoon sugar
• 1 teaspoon tomato puree
• freshly ground pepper
• 3 teaspoons vinegar
• 3-4 tablespoons sweet soy sauce
• 1.5 dl water

Preparation is as follows:

1. Place a pan on the heat source and heat the oil.
2. Saute the garlic and onion for a while.
3. Then add all the other ingredients to the pan and mix well. Make sure the sauce does not boil.
4. Keep stirring until a smooth sauce forms.

Your sauce is now ready. If the sauce is too thick, add a little more water. If the sauce is too thin, let it reduce for a while.

Now comes the most important part of cooking, tasting. Taste to see if your sauce is flavorful, because now is the time to season the sauce if necessary. I

Satay Sauce Without Peanut

A peanut allergy is common and therefore there must also be satay sauce without peanuts. And that can also be the peanuts are easy to replace with other ingredients. For example, replace them with almonds and you will also get delicious satay sauce. Or what is also possible is replacing peanuts with sunflower paste. This is for sale in the supermarket.

• 5 tbsp sunflower paste
• 1 tsp tomato puree
• 1 tbsp sunflower oil
• 2 tbsp sweet soy sauce
• 2 cloves garlic, finely chopped
• 1/2 cube vegetable stock
• 2 tbsp agave syrup
• pinch of salt
• 1/2 tsp ginger powder,
• 1 tsp sambal
• 200 milliliters soy milk

Preparation is as follows:

1. Place a pan on the heat source with oil and heat it up.
2. Saute the crushed garlic for a while.
3. Then add all the other ingredients and mix well.
4. Keep stirring until a smooth sauce forms.

Your satay sauce is now ready. Now taste again. If the sauce is too thick, add a little water. If the sauce is too thin, let it reduce for a while. Can you use the sauce with spice? Add a little more sambal. In short, taste and finish the sauce to your own taste.

Satay sauce with coconut milk

Making the sauce with coconut milk is very easy. In the above recipes, replace the water or milk with coconut milk. This gives your satay sauce just a little more flavor. You get an oriental taste with coconut milk. So take a look at the recipes above and you can get started in no time. Good luck!

So, now you know how to make a satay sauce. Plenty of options I thought.