Peanut sauce
| Peanut sauce | |||||||||||||
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 Chicken satay served with peanut sauce | |||||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 沙爹醬 | ||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 沙爹酱 | ||||||||||||
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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.
Ingredients
Its main ingredient is peanut butter with kecap giving 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 /crunchy), milk (coconut milk/low fat milk), kecap (soya 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.
Indonesian cuisine
Initially the sauce was meant as a sauce for satay, but it is used in many other Indonesian dishes like Saté Babi, Saté Ayam, Gado-Gado, Keredok, as well.
Chinese cuisine
The sauce is often used for standard barbecue meat. Other cuisine style that utilize the sauce include hot pot.
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.
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