Sate Sauce

A sate sauce that’s better than the ones you reconstitute from dry powder. Based on this seriouseats recipe.

Ingredients

• 85g peanuts
• 3 cloves garlic
• 15g brown sugar
• 2 tbsp Massaman paste, or store-bought substitute.
• 2 tbsp light soy sauce
• 1 tbsp tamarind juice, or dried tamarind reconstituted with water
• 2 tbsp vegetable oil
• (optional) chili flakes

Preparations

• With mortar and pestle, grind garlic and sugar to a paste.
• Add peanuts and grind together to a chunky paste.
• Add Massaman paste, soy sauce, tamarind juice and stir until well combined.
• Add vegetable oil and stir to combine.
• Optionally, add chili flakes until the right level of spiciness.