lower sodium/sugar peanut sauce

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Nutritional Info
  • Servings Per Recipe: 4
  • Amount Per Serving
  • Calories: 265.0
  • Total Fat: 19.2 g
  • Cholesterol: 0.0 mg
  • Sodium: 373.3 mg
  • Total Carbs: 20.2 g
  • Dietary Fiber: 1.3 g
  • Protein: 5.9 g

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Introduction

for steamed vegetables (par ram) and rice and about anything. for steamed vegetables (par ram) and rice and about anything.
Number of Servings: 4

Ingredients

    1/3 cup Adams crunchy peanut butter
    1/3 cup brown sugar
    2 thb low sodium soy sauce
    2 thb vegetable oil (sesame oil is nice)
    2 thb water
    1/2 tsp minced garlic
    6 oz coconut dream coconut milk (shaken)


Tips

This recipe is an adaptation of a recipe that calls for twice as much full sodium soy sauce, the same amount of creamy peanut butter, and about twice as much brown sugar. This has plenty of flavor and favors my efforts to reduce salt and sugar for health reasons. I fell in love with peanut sauce at a restaurant - but when I entered it into my tracker, it doubled my allowable sodium! This is just about as tasty. Check the nutrition to decide for yourself!


Directions

Combine sugar, peanut butter, low sodium soy sauce, water, oil and garlic in a pan. Do NOT add coconut milk yet. Heat over medium til bubbling, stirring occasionally. Reduce heat to low. Once peanut butter and sugar have melted completely, slowly add coconut milk, stirring til dark sauce becomes caramel colored. Let sauce simmer over low heat to thicken.

Serving Size: makes a little over 4 2 thb servings

Number of Servings: 4

Recipe submitted by SparkPeople user WALLOWA.