Satay is thought to have orginated in Indonesia but is very popular in Malaysia, Thailand and especially Singapore. Balinese Satay is known as Sate Lilit and is made from minced beef, chicken, fish or pork mixed with coconut and wrapped around a bamboo stick, grilled and served with a delicious spicy peanut sauce.

If visiting Bali, you might like to join a hands on Balinese cooking class by Bumbu Bali. Or you might like to try your hand at this Satay recipe below.

Ingredients:
300 gr minced chicken
5 tbsp spice mixture (see recipe for this below)
5 lime leaves shredded
1/2 cup grated coconut
About 3 tbsp fried shallots
1 tbsn palm sugar
1/2 tsp salt
wooden chopsticks

Mix the coconut, spice mixture, palm sugar, fried shallots, salt and lime leaves together until all ingredients are well and evenly mixed. Add the chicken and knead the mixture together. Add some water or cocounut milk if it is too dry. Take a tablespoon if the mixture and wrap it round a wooden chopstick. Do this until all the chicken mixture is used up. Then grill until golden brown. Serve with stay sauce.

Balinese Spice Mixture
1 tsp whole black pepper
3 cloves garlic
1/2 an onion or 5 shallots
1 large red chilli with seeds removed
1/4 tsp ground nutmeg
1/2 tsp sesame seeds
2-3 candlenuts
1 tsp coriander seeds
2 tbsp tumeric
5 tbsp galangal
3 tsp kencur
1 1/2 tbsp ginger
1/4 cup water (used to make it more pastey if too dry)

Grind all the ingredients into a fine paste using a mortar and pestle. If you don’t have one, then use ground black pepper, ground coriander seeds etc. Then place all ingredients in a blender. Heat some oil in a wok and fry until golden yellow in color. Cool before using.

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