I suppose everybody knows by now that all the things that I cook are simple and hassle-free and one thing you would not catch me dead doing would be barbecuing satay and making the peanut sauce. Much as I would love eating that and actually, we cannot get really good ones here, I would not be prepared to go through all that trouble.
Well, I’ve blogged about this before – the peanut sauce available in cans, Wee’s brand and no other…
I gave two cans to my friend, Philip, in the US and he served it as a dip for his grilled salmon and he and his friends fell in love with it instantly and on his last trip back to Sibu in December, he went out and bought a few more cans to cart back to America. Believe you me, it is that good…and I’ve tasted some at the satay stalls that are not half as nice and of a rather horrendous off-putting colour.
I cooked some chicken with it the other day and for the added ingredients, I had one Bombay onion and a few stalks of serai (lemon grass). Peel the onion and chop finely and bruise the ends of the serai. Mix them with the chicken to marinate it…
…and then, add a can of the satay sauce…
You may want to use two if you want more gravy to go with your rice.
This is a little different from how I would cook it in the past when I would heat up a bit of oil to fry the onion and serai first which probably would help boost the fragrance a bit more but I thought I could do without the extra oil added – there is enough fat in the chicken and oil in the sauce already. Thus, I just put everything in a pan and turned on the heat…
The juices would come out of the chicken and start to boil. Turn the chicken pieces regularly for an even colour and keep simmering till the gravy has thickened.
Remove the chicken pieces and place them in a bowl…
You will see the oil/fat floating over the gravy in the pan – the fat from the chicken would have melted in the course of cooking. Tilt the pan slowly over the sink to pour away the oil and then, spread the gravy over the chicken and serve…
Was it any good? I would not need to answer that… Wink! Wink! LOL!!!
...STILL CRAZY AFTER ALL THESE YEARS! 