Tuesday, 5 April 2011

Chicken Satay Special

This is a very popular Indonesian dish, not just in Indonesia but in many other countries as well.

Ingredients
01. Chicken pieces (boneless) - 200 g
02. Red chillies - 80 g
03. Button onions - 30 g
04. Garlic - 30 g
05. Mango ginger - 20 g
06. Lemon grass - 30 g
07. Tamarind extract - 5 tsp
08. Dried prawns (cleaned) - 4 tsp
09. Salt - to taste
10. Sugar - to taste
11. Oil - 100 ml
12. Honey - 1 tbsp
Preparation
01. Grind the red chillies, button onions, garlic, mango ginger,lemon grass, tamarind juice, dried prawns,salt and sugar to a fine paste.

02. Now coat the chicken pieces well with this paste and leave it overnight to marinate.
03. Thread the chicken pieces into thin bamboo skewers and roast in the barbecue.
04. Make a paste with the oil and the honey. Keep basting the chicken pieces with this oil-honey paste during the roasting process.
05. As another option, it can also be grilled in the oven.
06. Serve along with peanut sauce.

07. To make peanut sauce, make a paste with 100 grams of peanuts, a little red chilli, a large spoon of finely chopped onions, one spoon each of garlic paste and ginger paste, one small spoon of wild ginger,one Kaffir lime leaf and salt.