Sate—skewered pieces of beef or chicken cooked over hot coals—is a popular snack and appetizer in Indonesia.This recipe is for beef sate, but you can easily substitute chicken.Typically, the meat is served with a spicy peanut sauce called sambal kacang.
Ingredients:
Sate- 2 tsp. ground coriander
- ø tsp. ground cumin
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 tsp. salt
- 1 tbsp. brown sugar
- 1 tsp. tamarind, dissolved in
- 1 tbsp. warm water
- 1 lb. sirloin steak, cut into
- 1-inch cubes
- 2 tbsp. soy sauce
- 1 tbsp. water
- 1 tbsp. peanut oil bamboo skewers*
Directions:
- With a mortar and pestle, food
- processor, or blender, combine coriander, cumin, garlic, salt, brown sugar, and tamarind.
- Place steak cubes in a medium bowl
- and add the spice mixture. Use your fingers to rub the spices into the meat. Set meat in the refrigerator and marinate for 1 hour.
- In a wide, shallow dish, mix soy
- sauce, water, and peanut oil.
- Place four pieces of marinated meat
- on each skewer and dip the meat into the soy sauce mixture.
- Broil meat over a charcoal fire or
- under the broiler of the oven. Cook for 3 minutes on each side. Serve with peanut sauce (recipe on following page).