Asian Chopped Chicken Salad

Make Your Own Peanut Sauce

It’s great to make meals from scratch, but there’s nothing wrong with semi-homemade cooking either. 

For example, embellishing a bottle peanut sauce to create the delicious dressing used in this Asian Chopped Chicken Salad.

But if you’re a “homemade all the way” cook and prefer to whip up your own peanut sauce, here’s the recipe I’ve been using for years as a dip for Vietnamese spring rolls (also called summer rolls). It’ll work great in this recipe in place of the bottled sauce.

Just whisk together the following ingredients in a medium bowl until smooth:

1/3 cup natural peanut butter
3 tbsp hot water
2 tbsp hoisin sauce
2 tbsp freshly squeezed lime juice
1 tbsp reduced-sodium soy sauce
2 tsp dark sesame oil
1 tsp minced garlic
1 tsp grated fresh gingerroot
1 tsp hot sauce (like Sriracha) or ¼ tsp crushed red pepper flakes

SO TASTY!

This makes about ¾ cup peanut sauce, and you’ll need 1/3 cup for the Chopped Chicken Salad recipe.

Store the extra sauce covered in the fridge. Or just grab a spoon and eat it like soup. 

That’s what I end up doing. Nutty, I know.