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Today I’m in the mood for some Thai Peanut sauce. I just now sauteed up a bowlful of cubed tofu in toasted sesame oil with a bunch of brocolli spears and doused it in a cup of peanut sauce with a nice zing to it. Yum. The cooks over at Thai Table say that peanut sauce is not Thai after all. They say this…

In Thai cuisine, you have 3 choices for peanut sauce:

“Satay is a marinated meat grilled on skewers, served with curry like sauce and cucumber salad. The satay peanut dipping sauce is most likely what people think of when they think of Thai Peanut Sauce. It is made from red curry paste, coconut milk, fish sauce, tamarind, sugar and ground peanuts.

Fried Tofu Cubes has a more granular peanut dipping sauce that people love whenever we serve it at parties. This is most likely the greatest party dish we know - fast and easy and tasty.

Tod mun is a spicy fish cake, served with cucumber sauce. The sauce consists of sliced cucumbers, vinegar, ground fresh chilies, sugar and is topped with ground peanuts for texture. Cucumber is the main ingredient of the sauce, not the peanuts. 

They add that the Thai peanut sauce many of us are accustomed to is an Americanized version. One thing I know about food is that creating it is an art. It will always evolve with the spirit of the cook. We are fortunate to have so many incredible cultures in the world that deliver such an amazing variety of ways to invite alchemy with flavors.Â