Zucchini Sauté With Spicy Peanut Butter Sauce
- Ready In:
- 25mins
- Ingredients:
- 15
- Serves:
-
6
ingredients
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Sauce
- 3 tablespoons tahini
- 3 tablespoons sunflower oil
- 3 tablespoons hot water
- 2 teaspoons sugar (I use Splenda)
- 2 1⁄2 tablespoons soy sauce
- 1 1⁄2 teaspoons rice vinegar
- 1⁄4 cup chunky peanut butter
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Saute
- 2 tablespoons sunflower oil
- 2 tablespoons dark sesame oil
- 1⁄4 cup dry roasted salted peanut (not in shells)
- 2 tablespoons chili powder
- 5 garlic cloves, minced
- 4 medium zucchini, unpeeled
- 3 tablespoons good sherry wine (not the cooking kind)
- 2 -3 chopped green onions, including green part
directions
- To make sauce: Stir tahini in container thoroughly before measuring. Then blend 3 T. with hot water. Add remaining ingredients one at a time, whisking after each. Set aside.
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To make sauté:
- Cut zucchini in half width-wise, then cut each half into 3 spears length-wise.
- Heat sunflower oil in skillet until smoking hot.
- Carefully add sesame oil.
- Quickly add peanuts and stir. Cook them until they begin to brown.
- Add in chili powder and garlic, stir. Cook until garlic begins emitting fragrance.
- Add zucchini and sauté 1-2 minutes.
- Add sherry. Cook until sherry is reduced (around 1-2 minutes).
- Add sauce. Immediately lower heat to medium.
- Cook 2 minutes.
- Remove from heat.
- Garnish with sliced green onions before serving.
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