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Satay and Peanut Sauce

    Satay:
    1.5 kg chicken -deboned
    1 stalk lemon grass
    1 tsp sugar
    1 tsp cumin
    1 tsp coriander
    1/2 tsp powdered cinnamon
    2.5 cm piece fresh turmeric
    8 shallots
    salt to taste

Cube the chicken meat, drain and put aside. Grind coriander, cummin, tummeric, peanuts, salt and sugar. Mix this with the powdered cinnamon, diced shallots and 1 tbsp cooking oil, marinate the chicken with this mixture. Using special skewers, skewer 5 pieces of meat on one skewer, as in Kebabs. Grill over burning coal, constantly sprinkling cooking oil over the meat using crushed lemon grass. Turn over and continue grilling until the chicken is cooked Serve with peanut sauce.

    Peanut Sauce:
    1 cup sugar
    1 bombay onion
    1/2 cup tamarind juice
    2.5 cm piece ginger
    3 tbsps pounded chilies
    300 gms peanuts - roasted
    A piece of galangal
    salt to taste

Grind the roasted peanuts. Put aside grind lemon grass, ginger and galangal until fine slice bombay onion and stir fry until soft add in ground chillies and the other ground ingredients add in tamarined juice and lastly peanuts, sugar and salt. Simmer until the gravy thickens. To serve, arrange a few sticks of satay on a plate and serve with abowl pf peanut sauce, cucumber. Satay also goes very well with compressed rice.