Chicken Satay Recipe

I made this chicken skewer for thanksgiving meal with my "new" family. I was a bit nervous that they may not like it. But I thought, I'd go ahead and brought anyway to introduce them a bit of Indonesian food. Turned out, they loved it! :)))

Here is the recipe. You can google and find hundreds of recipe too but I make my own version to simplify.

Marinade sauce:

4 cloves of garlic- minced finely

4 cloves of shallot- minced finely

4 tbs of sweet soy sauce

1 tbs of soy sauce

sprinkle of salt and pepper

4 basil leaves- chopped

1 tbs ground coriander

1/4 cup of water

Preparation:

First, Cut the skin because we want to make oil out of it. Then, Cut the chicken (I used dark meat because I love the texture) into cubes and marinade it overnight with the sauce. Put it in the fridge. You want to cover it so your whole fridge does not stink (my hubby said it stinks our fridge so bad) LOL..sorry, love! :P

Chicken Oil:

drizzle a bit of olive oil in the pan, and heat it. Put the chicken skin on the pan and on low heat, let all the oil sweat out of the skin. You will know it is done when the skin becomes crispy.

Sprinkle with salt.

Grill Time:

The next morning, put the chicken in the skewer bamboo stick. (Don't forget to soak the bamboo stick in the water before you grill, to avoid it being burnt easily --> tricks that I learned from my hubby)

Brush it with the chicken oil before they head to the griller.

Grill it!

Once its done, sprinkle with lime juice.

Sauce:

Peanut Sauce: I bought from the asian market to save time.

Chilli Sauce: Sweet soy sauce with chopped shallots and thai chilli and 1/2 squeezed lime

Enjoyy :))

Prawn Noodle (Prawn Mee)

Yesterday began with checking my fridge on what stuffs I can cook. Turned out, no grocery left except for shrimps. Checked the pantry, only found canned corn, spaghetti, green bean, etc. Uh...ohhhh!! Errrrr...so maybe cook Shrimp Scampi Pasta? it's supposed to be easy (although I have never made some) and only use few ingredients like butter, onion, shallot, parsley, lemon (that's what the recipe said).

After taking out the butter from the fridge to make pasta, I thought to myself.. I have been eating lots of good but unhealthy food for the past few days..maybe I should not eat pasta made with butter, etc. LOL

Sooo...googling Prawn Mee....found lots of recipes but everything looked so fancy to me. Ayayaya....but let's go ahead and try anyway ...

Here is my recipe.. I only used the ingredients that I had at the moment so I did not make anything fancy. Serving for 2 portions..just for my husband and I.

Stocks Ingredients:

• 4 cloves of garlic - chopped finely


• 2 cloves of shallots - chopped finely


• half of onion - chopped


• shrimp shells


• beef stock cube


• 1 tbs sugar


• 1/2 tbs salt (sugar has to be more than salt, we want the stock to be more sweet)


• paprika powder

Garnish:

• 1 chinese sausage- slicced to small cubes


• deveined, deshelled shrimp


• cilantro


• 1 jalapeno sliced thin - u can add more if u like super spicy


• 2 stalks of green onion- chopped

Noodle:

• I used spaghetti noodle... :))

Cooking steps:

• Soak shrimps (with the shell) in salted water for 30 mins, then take out the shells and put the shells on paper towel to let it dry a bit


• Heat 1 tbs oil and sautee garlic, shallots and onion.....and as the fancy chefs say..let all caramelized for a while with low heat, hehehe


• add a bit of sugar to help with the caramelizing


• add the shrimp shells


• add water and 1 cube of beef stock


• let everything cook in low heat so the shrimp shell can give out the shrimpy taste..


• Taste the stock, u can start giving more sugar and add salt..depending on your liking..


• Add paprika powder- I put 1 tbs of powder to make the soup red and spicy...yummyy


• On different pan, put a bit of cooking oil and brown the chinese sausage (aka lapciong). Once the it's browned and u can see the yummy fat melted a bit, add the shrimps and quickly stir.


• Sprinkled a bit of salt


• Sprinkled with chopped cilantro


• Boiled spaghetti noodle on different stockpot

• Next...get a big bowl for him and her...carefully pour the shrimp stock/soup to each bowls (make sure no shrimp shells poured to bowl).
• Put the noodles in
• Put the shrimp, chinese sausage, cilantro on top of noodle
• Last but not least...sprinkle with the chopped green onion and the jalapeno...


• Voilaaaaaaaaaaaaaa......bon appetiteeeeeee :))

Now..you can google the recipe and found the great recipe out there..we are supposed to use sliced pork/beef, meatballs, etc..but since I did not have anything, I was glad enough to have just with the shrimp and chinese sausage. ehehehehehhe

Enjoyyy..