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Stir Fry Sauce

Sauces that make a stir fry taste finished — peanut sauce, homemade teriyaki, spicy peanut sauce, and a super simple teriyaki for busy weeknights.

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Peanut sauce

Delicious peanut sauce! This sauce is delicious on all different kinds of things my favorite is to have with with Asian style shrimp scampi, pad Thai and spring rolls.

5 min370 cal14 g proteinServes 432 saves

Aubrie Spevack

Ingredients

1/2 cup Peanut Butter
2 tbsp Soy Sauce
1 tbsp Rice vinegar
2 tbsp Brown sugar
2 tsp Chili Oil
1 tbsp Lime juice
3 tbsp Garlic (chopped)
1 tbsp Ginger (ground)
3 tbsp Water

Instructions

1Combine all ingredients except water. Whisk to fully combine.
2Add water, 1 tablespoon at a time, until desired consistency is reached. I normally use 2 tablespoons for a sauce and up to four if using it for a dressing.

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105 cal10 min26 saves

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A Good Sauce Saves Dinner

Chicken and a pan of vegetables can taste like nothing at all, or it can taste like something you'd order out. The difference is usually a few tablespoons of sauce you stirred together while the rice cooked.

Cooks on Pepper reach for this collection on the nights the fridge has odds and ends — half a bag of broccoli, a little leftover chicken — and everything needs to come together in one skillet before anyone asks what's for dinner.

Every recipe here is a sauce you can make from the pantry: Peanut sauce with peanut butter, soy sauce, and rice vinegar, a Homemade Teriyaki Sauce brightened with orange juice, a Spicy Peanut Sauce with chili onion oil, and Teriyaki Sauce (Super Simple) with soy sauce, brown sugar, and water.

Quick Tips

1
Mix the sauce first
Whisk it in a bowl or jar before the pan gets hot. Stir fries move fast, and you only have about 2 minutes at the end to add it.
2
Thin peanut sauce with water
Peanut butter sauces tighten up as they sit. Add warm water 1 tablespoon at a time until it pours off the spoon.
3
Add sugar sauces last
Brown sugar teriyaki scorches quickly, so pour it in during the final 1 to 2 minutes and toss constantly.
4
Cook in two batches
A crowded skillet steams instead of browning. Cook meat and vegetables separately, then combine and sauce at the end.