Sate Babi (Or Ayam)

Pets'R'us's Note:

This is what we call a sweet sate and the chili paste that I add does not really belong in this recipe. Can be made with chicken breasts and then it is called Sate Ayam. Here it usually served with a ketjap peanut sauce and prawn crackers, it can be an appetizer, snack or a side dish when part of an Indonesian rijsttafel. If you cannot get the sweet soy sauce, use regular and add some brown sugar. Marinating time is not included.

• Total Time: 40 mins
• Prep Time: 30 mins
• Cook Time: 10 mins

Ingredients:

Servings: 4

• 1 ½ lbs pork tenderloins (or chicken breasts)
• 1 small onion , grated
• 1 -2 garlic clove , crushed
• ½ cup ketjap manis , sweet soy
• salt
• white pepper
• 2 teaspoons ground coriander
• 2 teaspoons ground cumin
• ½ tablespoon lemon juice
• 1 -2 teaspoon sambal oelek (optional) or 1 -2 teaspoon chili paste (optional)

Directions:

1. Cut the pork up, into cubes.
2. Make a marinade from the remaining ingredients.
3. Add the meat and leave to marinate for 30 minutes minimum.
4. Skewer the meat onto metal or bamboo/wooden skewers, if you use the wooden soak for half an hour in water, keep the marinade.
5. Roast them under a grill, in a grill pan or best of all on the barbeque until done, usually about ten minutes or shorter.
6. Baste with the remaining marinade during cooking.

Reviews

[Latchy]

This is a great recipe and would be good for parties. I used the 2 tspns of sambal oelek and we just had it with rice and cucumber sambal. It is in my cookbook and will do it again.

[Bridget C]

Can't put my finger on it, as I love all the ingredients, but I didn't like it that much - a bit too thick in consistency on the sate perhaps. I guess it's just that I like a lighter sate marinade/glaze.

[Merihastyent]

Thank you for the great recipe. I served this at a recent party and it was smash. I added a bit more garlic then you stated and used a sweet chili sauce instead of brown sugar (since I didn't have any ketjap manis) to give the dish it's sweet flavor. This was great done over my charcoal grill. I did finish it off with a broil for a few minutes since the meat was a bit sticky. It was served as finger food and I didn't want my guests to have sticky fingers all night! Thanks again!