Chicken Satay

Satay is skewered marinated chicken meat which grilled over hot flame charcoal or with grill. In Malaysia Satay well known as street foods which available in every corner of the town. Satay basically marinated with local Malaysian traditional ingredients such as chili, lemongrass, buah keras, galangal, fresh turmeric and etc. Marinate long hours yield better taste of Satay meat.

Instead of buying satay, i attempt to try out myself for this Mothers day.  Pretty much easy and tasty too!

Ingredients for marinate :

• 500 gm boneless chicken meat


• 1/2 cup pineapple juice


• 2 tsp paprika


• 2 tsp black pepper


• salt


• 1 tbsp sugar

To blend :

• 2 biji buah keras


• 5 dry chilis


• 4 shallots


• 2 clove garlic


• 2 stalk lemongrass


• 1 inch galangal


• 1 tbsp coriander seeds


• 1 tsp cumin seeds


• 1 tsp fennel seeds


• 1 inch fresh turmeric


• 1 tbsp oil

Preparation Method :

Blend all the ingredients to smooth paste. Cut the chicken meat into small cubes. Add blended ingredients to the meat cubes. Add sugar, salt, pepper,  paprika and mix well. Add Pineapple juice to soften the meat. Cover with cling wrap and marinate in the chiller for 12 hours or more.

Thread the chicken cubes about 3 to 4  cubes each with bamboo sticks. Grill in hot flame until chicken meat cooked and tender. Serve with peanut sauce and fresh cucumber slices.