AUTHOR BEE | RASA MALAYSIA
Part 1. Spicy Peanut Sauce
It’s mildly spicy, made of aromatics, spices and dry roasted peanuts.
Ingredients for peanut sauce
SERVINGS: 8 PEOPLE PREP TIME: 15 MINUTES COOK TIME: 10 MINUTES TOTAL TIME: 25 MINUTES
Authentic and spicy peanut sauce with amazing rich taste. This homemade peanut sauce recipe goes well with chicken satay. This is the best peanut satay sauce you will find online!
CALORIES 231 KCAL
Ingredients
1 cup dry roasted peanuts unsalted
1 tablespoon tamarind pulps
1/4 cup vegetable oil
1 cup water
1/2 teaspoon salt or to taste
2 1/2 tablespoons sugar palm sugar preferred
1 teaspoon coriander powder
1 tablespoon sweet soy sauce Kecap Manis
Spice Paste:
8 dried red chilies seeded and soaked in warm water
3 cloves garlic peeled
4 cloves small shallots or pearl onions peeled
1 stalk lemongrass cut into 3 strips, use only 1 strip at the bottom
1/2 inch galangal peeled
Directions for peanut sauce
Directions
Crush the peanuts with mortar and pestle or use a food processor to ground the peanuts. Set aside.
In a small bowl, add the tamarind pulps plus 1/4 cup warm water. Set aside for 15 mins. Squeeze and extract the juice from the tamarind pulps and discard. Keep the tamarind juice.
Chop the Spice Paste ingredients coarsely, transfer to a food processor and blend until very fine. Add a few tablespoons of water to help blending.
In a sauce pan, heat the oil on medium heat and add the spice paste.
Add the remaining two strips of lemongrass to the spice paste. Cook the spice paste until it becomes aromatic and smell spicy.
Add the ground peanuts, water, tamarind juice, salt, sugar, coriander powder and sweet soy sauce. Stir to combine well.
Turn the heat to medium-low heat, stir continuously for about 5-10 minutes or until the peanut sauce thickens to your desired consistency. The oil and the peanut sauce should separate when it's done.
Let cool at room temperature and serve the peanut sauce with satay.
Q&A
How Do I Store Peanut Sauce?
You can store it in the refrigerator for up to a week. Make sure you store the sauce in a container or in a bowl tightly covered with plastic wraps.
To serve, just reheat the sauce in a microwave for 1 minute.
You can also freeze the sauce in the freezer. To serve, thaw the sauce to room temperature and reheat in a microwave.
How Many Calories per Serving?
This recipe is 231 calories per serving.
Part2. Shrimp on Skewers
Ingredients
1 lb. Prawns
2 Tbsp. Satay Sauce
1 Tbsp. minced Garlic
Skewers
Trim and rinse 1 lb. Prawns. Soak some skewers overnight and rinse the next day. This will prevent the skewers from burning when grilling the prawns.
Marinate the Prawns with 2 Tbsp. Satay Sauce and 1 Tbsp. minced Garlic. Let it sit for about 10 minutes before grilling. Then place on skewers.
Place on griller and grill for 2-3 minutes until cooked.