When you travel to Indonesia, you must have eaten barbecue chicken sate. To get that authenthic taste isn't easy, but with my recipe, you will feel you are in Indonesia again. Just close your eyes, because that barbecue smell together with all the spices, brings back good memories of Indonesia.
Indonesian barbecue chicken sate isn't complete with sate/peanut sauce, sweet soy sauce, lime, chillies and fried onions. This peanut sauce doesn't just consist of just peanuts, but also other ingredients. The taste of this chicken sate is like gold :-D. You will close your eyes automatically when eating this sate. It's that delicious! The smell already is mouth watering! If you smell this chicken sate, you will know already it will taste amazing! I just wish I could send you al least the smell when we barbecued the chicken sate!
Ingredients for the barbecue chicken
500 gram boneless chicken thigh
2 large onions
4 cloves of garlic
1 tablespoon coriander
1/4 teaspoon cumin
4 kemiri/candle-nuts
1 cm fresh ginger
1 tablespoon palm sugar
3 tablespoon sweet soy sauce
1 teaspoon salt
Instructions
- Cut the chicken in cubes.
- Peel the onions, garlic and ginger.
- Mix the palm sugar with 3 tablespoon water.
- With a food processor, grind onions, garlic, candle-nuts and ginger.
Take a bowl or a deep plate and mix everything together with the chicken.
Mix everything well and leave it chill in the fridge for at least 45 minutes till an hour.
After 45 minutes you can put the pieces of meat on the wooden skewers.
Pour the remaining of the marinade on the chicken skewers. Now you can prepare the barbecue!
My husband loves to barbecue, so I let him do the barbecue. When he is barbecueing meat, it's most of the time just with salt and pepper :-D.
He wanted to have some potatoes, which doesn't belong with this dish. Oops! I forgot to sprinkle the chicken with oil....Doesn't matter, it is now much healthier ;-)
For the peanut sauce I have already a pack of Indonesian sate sauce. I usually make homemade peanut sauce using Dutch peanut butter Calvé, but I just wanted to give this one a try. This peanut sauce just needs 250 ml of hot boiled water. The peanut sauce also contains garlic, onions, salt and is slightly spicy. I like the fact that it is unsweetened, because I will use sweet soy sauce later on. I actually didn't taste any chilli. I guess my tongue is already immune to chilli peppers.
To make this dish complete, I added fried onions, cut chilli peppers, sweet soy sauce,lime and cucumber.
