Peanut Sauce

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Cooking time: About 6 minutes
Prep time: About 5 minutes

Makes: 1   2/3 cups

    

Ingredients

• 2 t.         mild olive oil
• 3             cloves of garlic, minced
• 6             rings of deli-sliced jalapeño pepper, minced
• 1/4 cup   low-salt soy sauce
• 1/3 cup   chunky peanut butter
• 1 cup     water
• 1 t.         brown sugar
• 1 T.         minced fresh mint (5 big leaves)

    

Directions

1. Heat olive oil in sauce pan. Add garlic and pepper, and saute 10 seconds.
2. Add water, soy sauce, peanut butter, and sugar. Cook while stirring for 5 minutes.
3. Remove from heat and stir in minced mint leaves.

Good served hot as satay dipping sauce or in green beans with peanut sauce.

Adapted from a recipe in "Joy of Cooking", p. 83, 1997.

 

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