Peanut Butter Stir Fry Sauce
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Looking for a new topping for chicken or stir fry? Here’s a yummy Peanut Butter Stir fry Sauce that we’ve been making and love!
This is one of those recipes where I’m going to post it, and it’s going to look rather ugly, and you know what…I don’t care! We started making this creamy sauce a few weeks ago, and it’s been a favorite part of our meal rotation since then.
So, who cares about the pretty pictures? This tastes good!
Also, you are going to laugh because I don’t use peanut butter in this sauce due to allergies. We use Sunbutter (sunflower seed butter), but I promise it will work the same way with whatever you have. And also, no one searches for Sunflower Butter Stir Fry Sauce!
Why We Love This Sauce
I found a recipe for a sauce similar to this a while back, but it featured all kinds of specialty ingredients that I didn’t have or couldn’t find in my store. I’ve made my recipe based on super easy-to-get ingredients. Could you make it fancier? Absolutely. Do you need to? Not really. (See my picture above of the recipe on a FANCY paper plate. LOL.)
This recipe is perfect for those of us on a budget that loves a good sauce. We like this one because it’s just a little bit different and that makes it fun.
Peanut Butter Stirfry Sauce
This easy recipe will change up your stir fry night routine with a thick creamy, peanut butter sauce!
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons Garlic minced
- 1/4 cup Water
- 1 teaspoon Ginger fresh, minced finely
- 3 tablespoons Peanut Butter or Sunbutter or Almond Butter or any nut or seed butter
- 2 tablespoons Coconut Aminos or soy sauce
- 2 tablespoons Olive Oil use sesame oil if you have it
- 1 tablespoon Apple Cider Vinegar
- 1 tablepoon Sugar I use coconut sugar
- Red Pepper Flakes
- Green Onions
Instructions
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Combine all of the ingredients together in a small saucepan and whisk well until creamy and blended.
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Heat on low only briefly until just warmed. Do not overcook or the sauce will separate.
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Serve over chicken, rice, and veggies. Sprinkle with red pepper flakes and chopped green onion.
How to Enjoy The Peanut Butter Sauce
So far, we like this sauce recipe over fried chicken (I just do a basic batter and deep fry), along with rice and some veggies. Fried cabbage or steamed broccoli are both good and frugal choices!
More Sauces We Love
- Easy Orange Sauce Recipe
- Sweet and Sour Sauce Without Pineapple
- Copycat In N Out Sauce Recipe
- Copycat Sweet Onion Sauce Recipe
- The Tastiest Gluten Free Stir Fry Sauce (Easy & Frugal)
- Homemade Soy Sauce Recipe – Gluten and Soy Free “Soy Sauce”
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Merissa Alink
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This Peanut Butter Stir fry Sauce recipe was originally posted on Little House Living in May 2024. It has been updated as of May 2026.
I am going to try it tonight. I am always looking for new allowable flavors. You know what a challenge to can be to keep the flavor and skip the allergies.
Ugh, how well I know this! I hope you like this sauce!
The sauce has a delicious flavor but is very thin. Should it contain a thickener of some kind ? I served it over chicken and rice.
Did you heat it for long enough? Ours has always gotten thick during the few minutes of heating.
Thanks for this recipe. Since developing various nut allergies as an adult, I’ve occasionally longed for the protein packed, delicious indulgence of a peanut sauce. Somehow, I never thought of making a sunflower seed butter sauce. I can’t wait to try it, and will this week as long as my father -in-law’s surgery goes as planned.
It’s so great with sunbutter! (and thankfully doesn’t turn green like some things do when made with sunbutter) I hope you enjoy it!