Chicken Breasts With Lemon
Chicken Breast Satay
- Total Time
- 1 hour 30 minutes, plus 1 hour's soaking
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Ingredients
- 1pound skinless, boneless breast of chicken
- 2teaspoons ground coriander
- ½teaspoon ground cumin
- ½teaspoon ground dried fennel
- ½teaspoon ground black pepper
- 1teaspoon turmeric
- 13-inch length fresh lemon grass, trimmed and cut crosswise into ¼-inch pieces, about 2 tablespoons, or use 1 teaspoon lemon grass powder
- 3tablespoons coarsely chopped shallots
- 1½teaspoons finely minced garlic
- ½cup water
- 2tablespoon sugar
- Salt to taste if desired
- ½teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
- 3tablespoons corn, peanut or vegetable oil
- 3tablespoons coconut cream or milk Satay sauce (see recipe)
Preparation
- Step 1
Put 30 to 36 wooden skewers in bowl or other container and add cold water to cover. Let soak one hour or longer.
- Step 2
Preheat charcoal grill or kitchen broiler.
- Step 3
Cut chicken meat into ½-inch cubes. There should be about 2½ cups. Put cubes in a bowl.
- Step 4
Sprinkle chicken with coriander, cumin, fennel, pepper and turmeric. Set aside.
- Step 5
Put pieces of fresh lemon grass or lemon grass powder, shallots, garlic and water in the container of an electric blender and blend thoroughly.
- Step 6
Pour and scrape this mixture over the chicken and mix together with the fingers. Add sugar, salt and Worcestershire sauce and blend. Set aside for one hour.
- Step 7
Add one tablespoon of the oil and blend well.
- Step 8
Drain skewers and thread 4 to 6 pieces of chicken, arranging them quite close together, on each skewer.
- Step 9
Blend remaining 2 tablespoons oil and coconut cream or milk.
- Step 10
Arrange skewered chicken on charcoal grill or under broiler. Cook 4 to 6 minutes, depending on whether the chicken is to be medium cooked or well done. Turn skewers so that the pieces cook evenly. As chicken cooks, brush generously with oil-coconut oil mixture. Serve with satay sauce as a dip. Serve neatly trimmed pieces of onion and cucumber on the side as accompaniment.
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Private Notes
Cooking Notes
Am I the only one confused by the instructions? There are repeated instructions to “blend” ingredients with the chicken that has already been spiced and mixed with a previous blend of ingredients. How does one then “blend” the chicken with other ingredients? Obvi I’m not putting chicken in the blender! Why not just mixing instead of blending (which suggests using the blender more than once)?
We were looking for a recipe that was close to the satay that we've eaten in Indonesia, and this was great, but I would omit the fennel next time--that flavor note felt a little off.
Used lemon peel instead of lemon grass and it was still delicious.
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