Homemade Peanut Sauce

This homemade peanut sauce is versatile. I always make it big batch and keep in the fridge. There are a lot of recipes using this sauce either as a basic spices or condiment. Let say, Indonesian vegetable salad (gado-gado), Indonesian cooked vegetable salad (pecel), ketoprak, chicken satay (sate ayam), siomay, batagor, green mussel peanut sauce stir fry and etc. So here it the recipe:

Ingredients:

1 cup roasted peanuts or pan fried peanuts

3/4 cup shredded coconut sugar

10 kaffir lime leaves

8 red Thai chili peppers (you can steam or boil it first so that it would be easy to blend)

2 tbs of tamarind dissolve in 1/2 cup of water

1 tsp shrimp paste

6 cloves of garlic

2 tsp salt

Direction:

Combine all of the ingredients and blend it either with food processor or stick blender.

Store it in a fridge.