Thursday, April 12, 2018

Thai Peanut Sauce (and meal ideas with sauce)

This is a super easy sauce that I like to make because I can pair it with so many fresh veggies...

1 small piece of lemon grass, chopped**
Freshly grated ginger-to taste
1 cup water
½ cup hoisin sauce
3 tablespoons smooth peanut butter
1½ tablespoons sugar

DIRECTIONS:

To make the peanut sauce:

In a small sauce pan, simmer lemon grass in the water for 5 minutes, strain out the lemongrass and add the remaining ingredients to the water. Whisk well and simmer an additional 5 minutes. If the sauce doesn’t thicken, whisk for one minute over medium heat. (**Sometimes I am lazy and just use a very healthy squirt of the fresh lemongrass paste you can buy in the grocery store).

https://www.twopeasandtheirpod.com/whole-wheat-noodles-with-peanut-sauce-and-vegetables-recipe/
I use the wheat linguine pasta.

Often, I will slice narrowly slice chicken cook it with some lime olive oil, salt, and pepper.

Afterwards I will often pan sear small pieces of broccoli and shredded carrots until they are almost to the texture I like and then throw in some red, orange, yellow peppers, and zucchini. Be sure to flavor with a bit of salt and pepper.

When everything is ready, mix together amounts desired and garnish with ground peanuts, limes, and cilantro.