Chicken Satay (Sate Ayam)

This is a kind of food that you will like it most when you come to Indonesia. This one is called as Chicken Satay, or in Indonesian is called sate ayam. It's easy to find sate ayam in Indonesia, because it's well famous then you can find it everywhere in Indonesia. Sate ayam has different recipe and delicious taste depends on what variety and the recipe that different city has. The most popular sate ayam comes from 3 cities. There are sate ayam Ponorogo, sate ayam Madura, and sate ayam Padang. Every sate ayam from those cities has own delicious taste, different version with other.
Sate ayam is originally comes from Indonesia, but it popularity has reached another Southeast Asia country such as Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore and Philipine.

Here is the recipe for sate ayam (chicken satay) :


Ingridients:

• pound chicken breasts, boneless, or leg meat, with skin if you desired
• ounces chicken livers, trimmed
  
• cup soy sauce, sweet or 1/3 cup each regular soy sauce and molasses
• peanut sauce
• tablespoons onions, finely chopped
• tablespoon fresh lime juice
• tablespoons chile paste

How To Make:

• Preheat the grill to high.
• If the chicken has skin and you plan to use it in the recipe, remove it from the chicken and reserve; otherwise, discard it. Rinse the chicken, chicken skin (if using), and chicken livers (if using) under cold water. Then drain and blot dry with paper towels. Cut the chicken and livers into 1/2-inch dice and the skin into 1/2-inch squares. Thread the pieces alternately on the skewers; each saté should be about 3 inches long. Place on a platter, cover loosely with plastic wrap, and refrigerate while you prepare the marinade.
• Combine 1/4 cup of the sweet soy sauce, 1/4 cup of the peanut sauce, the onion, and lime juice in a shallow dish and stir to mix. Roll the satés in the marinade to coat thoroughly.
• When ready to grill, oil the grill grate. Arrange the satés on the hot grate and grill, turning with tongs, until lightly browned and cooked through, 1 to 3 minutes per side (2 to 6 minutes in all). Brush once or twice with the chicken fat as the satés cook.
• To serve, place the remaining 1/2 cup peanut sauce in a small bowl and spoon the remaining 2 tablespoons sweet soy sauce and the chile paste into the center (the motion of dipping the satés into this sauce will mix the ingredients together). Transfer the satés to serving plates or a platter and serve accompanied by the sauce.

Sate ayam is perfect food to be eaten at night. Don't worry how to get one. Because you don't have to go to some cafe or restaurant to buy one. There will be a lot of people at night that walking around in neighborhood to sell sate ayam. You just order it and it's not really expensive.
Make sure when you traveling in Indonesia, you have to eat sate ayam.