Tofu With Peanut-Ginger Sauce

By Martha Rose Shulman

Updated June 11, 2024

Tofu With Peanut-Ginger Sauce
Andrew Scrivani for The New York Times
Total Time
10 minutes
Rating
5(1,497)
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If you don’t feel like cooking on a hot summer day, you can enjoy plain cold tofu with a dipping sauce. Or you can sear it quickly in a pan or grill it. This recipe and the others that follow it this week make enough sauce or marinade for a pound of tofu.

Spread this sweet and pungent peanut sauce on seared, grilled or uncooked tofu. It also makes a nice dipping sauce for crudités or spring rolls.

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Ingredients

Yield:½ to ⅔ cup
  • 3tablespoons creamy unsalted, unsweetened peanut butter
  • 1tablespoon rice vinegar
  • 2teaspoons soy sauce
  • 1 to 2teaspoons light brown sugar, to taste
  • 1½teaspoon ginger juice (grate 1 tablespoon ginger, wrap in cheesecloth and squeeze)
  • Cayenne to taste
  • 2 to 4tablespoons warm water
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Preparation

  1. Step 1

    In a small bowl, whisk together all the above ingredients. Thin out as desired with water. Brush or spoon onto sliced tofu (cooked or uncooked).

Tip
  • Advance preparation: This keeps well for a week in the refrigerator. You may want to thin it with more water after a few days.

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Laura K

Recipe is easily tripled or quadrupled. I then freeze in meal size containers. Also great on noodles. I have used ginger juice and just finely grated ginger. Both taste equally good.

Peggy

I had some left over and it was terrific hot on rice with tofu and broccoli.

drdeasnter

No rice vinegar, used apple cider vinegar instead. Date sugar in place of brown. No cheesecloth, minced ginger. Came out so thick in the beginning, I'd thought the recipe called for 2-4 cups of warm water. After adding half a cup I realized my error, then simply doubled the recipe. Used a food processor. At the end wanted a bit more bite so added a few cloves of minced garlic and a thai chile pepper. Splendid taste and consistency, thanks this will be part of my arsenal going forward.

Kevern

Unbelievably delicious. I wouldn’t change a thing about this recipe. I spoon the sauce onto raw extra firm tofu cubes when I’m feeling exceptionally lazy and it is fantastic.

Gayle

This looks great, but where is the nutrition information? Please consider adding it to all of your recipes for those of us tracking protein, fat, sodium, etc...

Caro

This was so easy and tasty. I didn’t add any sugar since I used good ole JIF which is sweet enough. I also added a touch more rice vinegar and some sriracha for a little kick.

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