Hen Satay Recipe with Peanut Sauce

Thai impressed rooster satay recipe with a creamy, wealthy peanut sauce for dipping. Marinate rooster in our straightforward turmeric spiced coconut and ginger marinade. Then, thread onto skewers and prepare dinner till golden brown. It’s wonderful.

Every time I’m at a Thai restaurant, I at all times order rooster satay! I find it irresistible a lot. Golden items of rooster marinated with spices, garlic, ginger, and coconut milk. It’s actually one among my favourite issues, which is why I’m so pleased to share this at-home-friendly rooster satay recipe with you!

This recipe is definitely fairly easy. You’ll mix the marinade components, pour it over rooster, then marinate for half an hour (or longer in order for you). Then, thread the rooster onto skewers and prepare dinner by means of. The peanut sauce is simply as straightforward. Add a handful of pantry components to a saucepan and warmth by means of. For extra recipes like this, see our Thai chicken salad or yellow chicken curry.

Key Substances

• Hen: We love rooster thighs since they prove tender and juicy, however rooster breasts work rather well with this recipe, too. Both means, use boneless, skinless rooster and lower it into 1-inch items.
• Coconut Milk: The beauty of this recipe (each the rooster satay skewers and the peanut sauce), is that you simply solely want one can of coconut milk and if making each the rooster and sauce, will find yourself utilizing just about your entire can. Go for full-fat coconut milk, and provides it a extremely good shake earlier than measuring it out for the marinade and sauce.
• Sugar: You’ll use brown sugar (gentle or darkish) for the marinade and the peanut sauce.
• Fish Sauce: A regular ingredient in Thai cooking. Whereas there are Thai fish sauce manufacturers, we often have Purple Boat fish sauce (a Vietnamese fish sauce) in our pantry and discover it really works simply nice right here. We additionally use it when making our sesame ginger shrimp marinade, Vietnamese pho, and Thai green curry.
• Lime: You’ll use recent squeezed lime juice for the marinade and the peanut sauce, so purchase just a few.
• Garlic and Ginger: Recent is greatest for these and is used within the marinade. Since we mix the marinade collectively, there’s no mincing or grating for this recipe.
• Spices: These actually make our rooster satay scent and style unbelievable. You’ll use floor coriander, cumin, turmeric, pepper, cinnamon, and salt.
• Selfmade Peanut Sauce: We’re each obsessive about this sauce and it’s unbelievable with the rooster. You’ll mix peanut butter (use pure, unsweetened or homemade peanut butter) with just a few components you’ve got already used for the marinade like coconut milk, brown sugar, lime juice, and fish sauce. Then, you will want soy sauce and a little bit Thai pink curry paste (store-bought is okay, however we do have a homemade red curry paste in case you are ).

Easy methods to Make Thai Hen Satay

If you happen to’ve glanced down on the recipe beneath, it’d look a bit prolonged, however let me let you know that the hands-on time for each the rooster and sauce is tremendous low! The size is de facto solely as a result of ingredient record and the handful of pantry spices you’re going to mix into the marinade. So follow me, okay?

First, you’ll make the rooster satay marinade, then marinate. We do that in a tall vessel with our immersion blender, which suggests it takes lower than 5 minutes. If you happen to don’t have an immersion blender, we extremely advocate getting one (it’s magic for making mayonnaise), however for now, you need to use a daily blender as an alternative. Smash and peel your garlic. Peel and roughly chop your ginger, then pile the whole lot in. Blitz for 10 to fifteen seconds till easy, then pour the marinade over your rooster. Toss and marinate for half-hour within the fridge (or longer you probably have the time).

Subsequent, thread the rooster onto soaked skewers and prepare dinner. We use 10-inch picket skewers for this since they match properly inside our 12-inch grill pan, however if you happen to don’t need to take time skewering, you possibly can at all times prepare dinner the rooster items individually. A grill pan is nice for getting these little browned spots, however once more, if you happen to don’t have one, use a daily skillet. Or, grill them on an outside grill!

When cooking these rooster satay skewers, we preserve to a medium warmth and permit the marinade to slowly brown and caramelize, which provides the within of the rooster time to prepare dinner by means of. If at any level you discover them browning an excessive amount of, decrease the warmth a little bit.

Lastly, make the peanut sauce and serve. Because the rooster is ending up or resting to the facet, you may make the fast peanut sauce. Add peanut butter, coconut milk, brown sugar, lime juice, soy sauce, fish sauce, and a tiny little bit of pink curry paste (it’s value it!) to a small saucepan and warmth over medium. As they heat up, you may discover that the sauce separates (see the primary picture). It’s additionally going to look too thick. Don’t fear!

As soon as the sauce is heat, whisk in a little bit water and watch because the sauce smooths and turns shiny (form of like how tahini smooths out after we make our tahini sauce).

You’ll be able to see within the subsequent picture what the water does. Now now we have an emulsified, dippable sauce that’s simply good for serving subsequent to our rooster satay. If you’re feeling fancy, scatter some chopped peanuts and cilantro over the rooster for serving. We are able to’t look ahead to you do that one!

Easy methods to Serve Hen Satay

Our favourite Thai restaurant has these skewers on their appetizer menu, however you possibly can completely flip this into dinner! Listed here are 3 ways our household serves them:

• Make a rooster satay salad with a mattress of crunchy lettuce, shredded cabbage, and carrots. Add the rooster and chopped peanuts, then drizzle the peanut sauce excessive as a salad dressing. You might additionally swap the mattress of veggies for this avocado cucumber salad (it might be so good!).
• Make a plate with sliced cucumbers or a cucumber salad and coconut rice. If you happen to’ve not tried our coconut rice earlier than, this rooster recipe is the right time to make use of it. We prepare dinner the rice as ordinary, however swap half of the water for coconut milk.
• Flip dinner into an appetizer unfold, then construct your plate as you want. Extra concepts that work properly alongside this rooster are our spicy edamame, chicken spring rolls, and our sugar snap pea salad.