Quick and Easy Sugar-free Peanut Sauce To Rock Your Plate

If you were stranded on a dessert island with only one dish to eat: your favorite freshly steamed vegetables and your favorite sauce, what would your sauce be?

Mine would be peanut sauce!

Hands down.

But specifically, this sugar-free peanut sauce.

This recipe is unique in that the sweetness is not from cane sugar, or even agave or maple syrup, like most peanut sauces. Instead, I use my preferred sweetener: DATES, which give you sugar but in its whole food form with all of the dates' fiber, vitamins, minerals, and phytonutrients!

It's super creamy from the nut butter (you could use almond butter if you want) with a touch of sweet and spiciness, plus a little tang from the lime juice. This combination never gets old.

I have a feeling you're going to love this sauce as much as I do. As long as you can avoid eating it by the spoonful, I suggest keeping it in your regular rotation of condiment recipes or your list of quick and easy sauces.

Quick and Easy Sugar-free Peanut Sauce

By Chef Katie Mae
 
Makes about 1 cup | Ready in 3 minutes | Stores 1 week in fridge
 

INGREDIENTS

• ½ cup unsweetened peanut butter
• ½–¾ cup water
• 2 tablespoons rice vinegar
• 2 tablespoons lime juice
• 1 tablespoon tamari (optional)
• 1 Medjool date, pitted
• 1 garlic clove (or ¼ teaspoon garlic granules)
• ¼–½ teaspoon red pepper flakes

DIRECTIONS

1. To make the peanut sauce, add all of the sauce ingredients to a blender and blend until creamy.
2. Serve right away or store in an air-tight container for later.

CHEF'S NOTES

To start with, only add ½ cup of water. If you want a thinner sauce, add the last ¼ cup.

The date is added for just a touch of sweetness. It helps balance the heat from the red pepper flakes. However, it can be left out, especially, if you don’t add the red pepper flakes.

This is a great sauce to make in double batches and keep throughout the week. The flavor stays strong and scrumptious!