Indonesian Kebabs with Peanut Sauce

Two to twenty-four hours before the meal is to be served. Liquidize garlic, ginger, onion, soy sauce, lime or lemon juice, ground coriander seed, sugar and chile pepper.

Pour into a container. Add cubed chicken and refrigerate.

Thread the chicken onto skewers and grill or barbecue until cooked through then place on a serving dish and cover with the following sauce. Spoon sauce over chicken add juice of 1 lime and serve with noodles or rice.

Peanut Sauce: Liquidize peanuts, garlic, onion, red chile pepper, salt, brown sugar and black pepper. Then fry in groundnut oil for 2-3 minutes. Add water. Simmer for 20 minutes.

cook's notes

My wife and I have always liked food from the Far East and I always wanted to cook a chicken satay. I then came across a recipe in Madhur Jaffreys ''Far Eastern Cookery''. I modified it to our taste and decided to upload it.

I do not think that cookery recipes are written in stone and that the ingredients should follow the exact quantities as laid down by the recipe.

I rarely weigh, or measure anything and frequently add new ingredients to tried and trusted recipes. The results are sometimes regrettable, but never disastrous. So please try this recipe but use it as a guide, if you want more chillis add them, if you want less garlic use less. Whatever you do enjoy the cooking as much as the eating.