Recipe: Spicy Peanut Sauce

This sauce adds a liveliness to cooked chicken, pork, or fish---or you may serve it with steamed vegetables.

Makes 1 Cup

5 oz. chunky peanut butter
2 T soy sauce
1/3 C water
3 T sugar
1 T sesame oil
1-½ T rice wine vinegar
6 cloves garlic, minced
1/3 C chopped cilantro, or Chinese parsley
1 T plus 1 t hot chili oil

Beat all ingredients together in an electric mixer. (Do not use a food processor as it may distort the texture and color of this sauce.) Store in the refrigerator in a covered container. This sauce will keep for weeks.