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Satay marinade, peanut sauce
September 09, 2005
On Sunday night I made satay chicken skewers with peanut and hoisin sauce, and nasi goreng on the side.
For 10 chicken skewers I used approximately 600g chicken tenderloins.
After I diced the tenderloins and threaded them onto wooden skewers which I had soaked in water for an hour, I marinated the skewers in this mix (recipe sourced here):
Mix together
2 tablespoons of soy sauce
1 tablespoon of lemon juice
1 teaspoon of sesame oil
1 teaspoon of ground turmeric
1 teaspoon of ground coriander
2 teaspoons of brown sugar
If you wanted to make more skewers, or baste them while cooking, you could easily make 1.5x or 2x the marinade.
I grilled these on my george foreman grill until just cooked (avoid overcooking tenderloins, though you can get away with it with chicken thighs) and served with this lovely peanut and hoisin sauce I'd sampled a few weeks earlier at A, A, and O's.. (Thanks to A for the recipe). I have tried making peanut sauce a few times before and it has always been really gross but this one was lovely!
Peanut and Hoi-Sin Sauce:
4 Tbsp Water
4 Tbsp Rice Vinegar
7 Tbsp Crunchy Peanut Butter
8 Tbsp Hoi-Sin Sauce
1 Tbsp Hot Chilli Sauce
1 Tbsp Unsalted Peanuts, roasted and finely chopped.
Over low heat, warm the water, vinegar and peanut butter until blended.
Stir in the hoi-sin and hot chilli sauces.
Finish off by stirring in the chopped peanuts.
My modifications for next time: I think it was a little heavy on the hoi-sin so I might start with 4 tablespoons next time and then add to taste. It is a great recipe though, it's very close to my all time favourite peanut sauce you can buy which is the one that comes in the wraps of the world malaysian satay wrap kit, so I may do a taste test one day and see if I can figure out what I need to add to get it even closer, as it is very impractical to buy the wrap kit just for the little sauce sachet inside!
Posted by lee_taylor at September 9, 2005 05:04 PM