Simple Chicken Satay with Peanut Sauce

Simple Chicken Satay with Peanut Sauce is an easy-to-make meal that's packed with flavour. Sizzling chicken skewers are grilled to perfection and served with the best spicy peanut sauce that will have you coming back for seconds!

One of my favourite casual meals: Simple Chicken Satay with Peanut Sauce! With just the right balance of sweet, savoury, and spicy flavours, these mouth-watering chicken satay skewers are perfect for a quick weeknight dinner or a fun weekend barbecue with friends and family.

❤️Why this recipe works

• Sizzling Satay! Even the word conjures up visions of hot Singapore nights, sizzling grills, and flavourful meat. This easy chicken satay recipe makes a great appetizer or a light meal when served with crunchy veggies.
• A fun way to eat! Spicy skewers make a perfect choice for a casual meal. Who doesn't love food on a stick?
• Indoors or outdoors! Golden brown bites of chicken marinated in a full-flavoured chicken satay sauce and served with a zesty peanut sauce on the side are hard to resist! It's an easy meal that you can cook on either an indoor or outdoor grill.
• Delicious peanut sauce is an essential accompaniment to chicken satay. Its nutty and slightly sweet flavour goes perfectly with slightly charred, marinated skewers of juicy chicken.

If you love these flavours, you'll also like this Slow Cooker Thai Peanut Chicken! It's an easy "dump-and-go" slow cooker meal the whole family will love.

Let's make some quick and easy satay chicken skewers!

🛒 Ingredients for chicken satay with peanut sauce

🔪 Instructions

Chicken satay skewers dipped in spicy peanut sauce and served with fresh veggies make a meal that's fun to eat and share with friends!

Mix and marinate, skewer the chicken, grill, and dip! This satay recipe is easy, but oh-so-good!

1. First, soak wooden skewers to prevent them from burning on the grill.
2. Mix all the peanut sauce ingredients in a blender or food processor and process until smooth. This recipe may make more than what you'll need, so refrigerate or freeze any leftover sauce. It will last for months in the freezer.
3. Next, slice the chicken breasts into long thin strips. Thread onto soaked skewers.
4. Mix the marinade ingredients together and marinate the chicken for 2 to 8 hours or overnight.
5. Grill the chicken satay skewers over medium-high heat for 2 - 3 minutes on each side or until no longer pink in the middle. You can use either an outdoor or indoor grill to cook satay.
6. Serve the skewers hot and fresh from the grill. Garnish with chopped peanuts, cilantro leaves and wedges of fresh lime.

🔁 Possible Variations

❓Satay recipe FAQs

🍽 What to serve with chicken satay

• The traditional accompaniments to chicken satay skewers are celery sticks, and pickled red onions. However, feel free to add any other fresh veggies. Cucumber spears or slices to cool your mouth from the spicy skewers are good too! Serve with wedges of fresh lime and give each satay skewer a generous squeeze of lime.
• If you like, you can make this a full meal and serve it with Thai Coconut Rice. A fluffy and fragrant rice dish made with coconut milk, its creamy, tropical flavor pairs nicely with chicken satay.
• Add a refreshing salad, like Thai Cucumber Salad with Mint, or a noodle salad like this Crunchy Thai Noodle Salad. Chicken Satay skewers are also delicious when served on a bed of crisp Thai-Style Coleslaw.

🥶 How to store and freeze satay skewers

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This satay recipe was originally posted way back in 2017. I've updated it with new photos and extra information and I've tweaked the recipe to make it even more useful.

📖 Recipe

Simple Chicken Satay with Peanut Sauce

Chicken Satay with Peanut Sauce is an easy-to-make meal that's packed with flavour. Sizzling chicken skewers are grilled to perfection and served with a rich, creamy peanut sauce that will have you coming back for seconds!

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Course: Appetizer, Entrée/Main Dish

Cuisine: Indonesian

Diet: Gluten Free

Prep Time: 30 minutes minutes

Cook Time: 8 minutes minutes

marinating time: 2 hours hours

Total Time: 2 hours hours 38 minutes minutes

Servings: 8

Calories: 430kcal

Author: Elaine

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Equipment

bamboo skewers

indoor grill pan

tongs

Ingredients

• ▢ 4 medium chicken breasts, boneless, skinless
• ▢ 3 tablespoons olive oil extra virgin
• ▢ 2 stalks lemon grass, white parts only, chopped finely
• ▢ 2 cloves fresh garlic
• ▢ 4 medium shallots
• ▢ 1 ½ teaspoons turmeric
• ▢ 1 teaspoon coriander
• ▢ 1 teaspoon chili powder
• ▢ 1 ½ teaspoons sea salt
• ▢ 2 tablespoons coconut sugar, or brown sugar or Monkfruit sweetener
• ▢ 1 - 2 tablespoons water

Peanut Sauce

• ▢ 1 cup peanut butter, smooth
• ▢ 7 oz coconut milk, (half a can)
• ▢ ¼ cup coconut aminos (for paleo diet) , or tamari soy sauce
• ▢ ¼ cup rice vinegar
• ▢ 2 cloves garlic
• ▢ ¼ - ½ inch knob fresh ginger
• ▢ 2 tablespoons sweet chili sauce

Garnish

• ▢ ⅓ cup chopped peanuts
• ▢ ¼ cup chopped cilantro

Instructions

• Soak bamboo skewers in water for 2-3 hours or more.
• Combine all ingredients for Peanut Sauce in a food processor or blender and process until smooth. Add a little water, if necessary to thin it. Set aside.
• Slice chicken breasts lengthwise into long narrow strips. Thread on bamboo skewers.
• In a food processor, combine the marinade ingredients: oil, lemon grass, shallots, garlic, turmeric, coriander, chili powder, sea salt, coconut sugar and water. Marinate chicken strips in this marinade for 2 - 8 hours.
• Grill over medium-high heat for 2 - 3 minutes on each side. If not cooked through, lower the heat and grill 3 minutes longer until fully cooked. Use an instant-read meat thermometer to check that the internal temperature of the chicken has reached 165°F.
• Sprinkle with freshly chopped cilantro leaves and chopped peanuts, if desired. Serve chicken satay hot with sliced cucumbers, pickled red onions and peanut sauce for dipping.

Notes

Note: Cooking time listed does not include time to marinate the chicken.

Calorie count is high because it includes all the peanut sauce, which you may not need.

How to store: Store leftover chicken satay skewers tightly covered in the fridge for 3 to 4 days. To be safe, refrigerate within two hours of cooking.

To freeze: Store cooked skewers tightly wrapped in an airtight container for 3 to 4 months.

Peanut sauce freezes well. I store it in 4 oz. or 8 oz. Mason jars. It will last for months in the freezer.

Nutrition

Calories: 430kcal | Carbohydrates: 18g | Protein: 23g | Fat: 32g | Saturated Fat: 9g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 5g | Monounsaturated Fat: 14g | Trans Fat: 0.01g | Cholesterol: 36mg | Sodium: 1104mg | Potassium: 593mg | Fiber: 3g | Sugar: 9g | Vitamin A: 126IU | Vitamin C: 3mg | Calcium: 41mg | Iron: 3mg

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