Pork Satay III
The January 2010 DC challenge was hosted by me, and I chose a delicious Thai-inspired recipe for Pork Satay with Peanut Sauce from the book 1000 Recipes by Martha Day.
I picked this recipe for the DC challenge because it’s what I was cooking some 8 hours after offering to be the last-minute host, three days before the challenge was to be posted. The focus of this challenge is to marinade.
Total time: 40 minutes, plus marinade time.
1/2 small onion, chopped
2 garlic cloves, crushed
1 Thai dragon (bird’s eye) chili pepper
2 T ginger root, chopped (4 cm cubed)
2 T lemon juice (1 oz or 30 mls)
1 T soy sauce (0.5 oz or 15 mls)
1 T fish sauce (0.5 oz or 15 mls)
1 tsp ground coriander (5 mls)
1 tsp ground cumin (5 mls)
1/2 tsp ground turmeric (2-2.5 mls)
2 T vegetable oil (or peanut or olive oil) (30 mls)
1 pound of pork (loin or shoulder cuts) (16 oz or 450g)
Pan-fried tofu satay and broiled chicken satay
Directions:
1. Cheater alert: If you have a food processor or blender, dump in everything except the pork and blend until smooth. Lacking a food processor, I prefer to chop my onions, garlic, ginger and peppers really fine then mix it all together in a medium to large bowl.
2. Cut pork into 1 inch strips.
3. Cover pork with marinade. You can place the pork into a bowl, cover/seal and chill, or place the whole lot of it into a ziplock bag, seal and chill.
4. If using wooden or bamboo skewers, soak your skewers in warm water for at least 20 minutes before preparing skewers.
5. Gently and slowly slide meat strips onto skewers. Discard leftover marinade.*
6. Broil or grill at 290°C/550° F (or pan fry on medium-high) for 8-10 minutes or until the edges just start to char. Flip and cook another 8-10 minutes.
* If you’re grilling or broiling, you could definitely brush once with extra marinade when you flip the skewers.
Shown above with peanut sauce.
TexMex Pork Satay
I also did this challenge using my trusty Pork Satay II marinade on tofu, pan fried (middle picture), chicken satay marinated in raita (shown with tofu), and the experimental but oh-so-wonderful TexMex Pork Satay marinated in a Chevy’s inspired chipotle and jalapeno cream sauce.
I also did all three dipping sauces suggested in the challenge (peanut sauce, Thai pepper dip, tamarind dip, with changes), as well as using the TexMex dip and my favorite raita.
49 comments
Cuppy thank you so much for hosting this challenge on such short notice and thank you so much for the delicious recipes they are a wonderful introduction to Thai styled food. Your recipes our great and so simple and quick. And it seems that the DCs took you at your word and went to town with this recipe. And thank you for your very kind words you left on my blog. Cheers from Audax in Sydney Australia.
Thanks, Cuppy for hosting this wonderful and practical challenge! It has been great and my week is filled with delicious satays…
Sawadee from Bangkok,
Kris
amazing job. I loved this challenge and wanted to thank you for all the hard work. Half of the Family liked it and since I was on the liking it side it was a good recipe.
Just wanted to say thank you for a great challenge. Even if it was last minute, I really enjoyed the process and using your recipes as a place to start.
Thank you, thank you for an excellent challenge!! I will definitely be making this again in the future! I loved it and so did all my guests. mmm…tasty satay!
Ciao Cuppy ! We really loved this challenge ! Thank you ! I will try all your other recipes for it !!
Thanks for the wonderful challenge this month, I really enjoyed myself threading the skewers and most of all eating it! Sounds like we were lucky to have you to step in last minute.
Plus I love the way your blog looks at the same type of food with different recipes! It’s a really interesting idea 🙂
Thank you for a wonderful recipe and hosting at such short notice. We will be using this again regularly I suspect. I could happily get addicted to the sauce!.
Thanks for this challenge. I enjoyed it so much with Mister and reminded us of home. Yum Yum!! Still can’t believe we actually made satay in our own backyard 🙂
Cuppy – thanks for hosting this challenge. I will admit I was not pleased with my results – I didn’t tinker with the recipes at all and found the flavours a little cloying and the peanut sauce overpowered the pork marinade. I guess I didn’t realise how much you could play with the recipes! In any case, it was a great reminder of what a wonderful technique marinading is for tougher cuts of meat so thanks… 🙂
I liked this challenge very much and appreciated that it was rather simple to make while being extremely flavorful! Thank you so much for hosting!
Thank you Cuppy for this delicious recipe. I will be making Satay more often now, thanks to you darling.
Have a great day.
Cheers,
Thanks so much for this great challenge! It was great and it’s definitely going on my list of dishes to make all the time 😀
thank you cuppy for hosting this challenge! I love it when we get challenges where the food is both simple, practical and yummy– cuz i’m definately going to save this recipe up and make it again.
Thank you for the challenge! It was great! Oh, yin dee ka (wrong spelling or not) it’s okay, it still meant the same thing=;)
Thanks Cuppy for hosting this challenge, I really enjoyed it. It gave me opportunity to experiment and make satay sauce which I’ve never done!!!!!!!
Fantastic, just fantastic!
Thanks so much for hosting this challenge! It’s funny how something so common (we eat satay a lot here in Holland) can actually be fun to make from scratch. I do have to say that the sauce was a bit too coconutty for my taste but that was easily solved! Thanks for a fun challenge!
Great choice Cuppy…easy and just so tasty. Loved your challenge. Congrats
Woo! Close one! 😉
Thanks for a great challenge Cuppy! The satays were indeed cuppylicious and agreat springboard for creativity.
Thanks so much for hosting! Really enjoyed this challenge. I went with chicken and spicy peanut sauce but can’t wait to try the all the other versions. Your tofu looks fab.
Thanks Cuppy! The satay was so YUMMY!!
Congrats on hosting! Thank you for all the work you put in – I know its not simple! The satays were fabulous!!
Thanks cuppy for the great challenge.
You made my first participation a lovely experience!
Hi Cuppy, thanks for such a great challenge this month. It is my 1st one to DC and I loved it. Great job on yours and the satays look really delicious – love the dips as well.
We loved this challenge, thanks so much!
This was a fun challenge. I liked the room for interpretation- everyone’s satays turned out so different and interesting!
Cuppy, thank you so much for a great challenge! I really enjoyed making it. 🙂
Thanks for hosting this challenge! Next up, veggie skewer satay…
Thanks for hosting this month! It was a fun challenge, as usual — and delicious too!
Thanks again Cuppy! Loved the recipes.
Thank you so much for this challenge, it was fun and delicious! I have to say, that chipotle cream sounds too good not to try!
Cuppy thanks so much for hosting this challenge! It’s one of my favorites that I’ve done so far =) In response to your question about my grill- we aren’t allowed to have a charcoal/gas grill on our balconies so we have this little tabletop electric grill! It’s not quite as nice as a REAL grill but it does the job. Since it’s so cold out now I just brought it inside and grilled my sate in the kitchen.
Cuppy, thank you for this tastefull challenge. I enjoyed it a lot.Thai food is one of my favorite. Thank you for the nice words you left on my blog. The lamb result is already there… Thanks again.
As you know I really enjoyed this challenge…thanks again. Glad your dinner worked out and raita sounds like a fantastic complement to the original recipe and I had no idea you could marinate with it. There was so much food for thought!
Thank you for a fun and non-stressful challenge!!! Glad you liked my results. Sorry re chopstick envy: they were a gift from a friend who has traveled to Asia for school
Thanks for your challenge! It was delicious. Please check out my interpretation!
http://caseyangelova.blogspot.com/2010/01/pork-satay-daring-kitchen-challenge-jan.html
hi cuppy! thanks for the lovely recipe..my family loved it very much and thanks for droppin’ by at my site! =)
Cuppy..thanks so much for the delicious challenge! It’s a keeper for sure! That said, yours turned out beautiful and yummy looking!
Thank you so much for this wonderful challenge! It was really delicious!
Hi Cuppy,
Thanks for hosting my first challenge. It was a blast to make and I am so happy to be a daring cook. I plan on making this again and maybe bbqing it at my parents house. Thanks for the nice post on my blog.
Luci
Thanx for the great recipe and making it fun!
Thanks for the delicious challenge, cuppy. My family and I love it, esp me because it’s so easy to make (I made chicken satay). Have a nice day!!
Thanks for doing such a great job hosting this challenge, especially on such short notice. I love your idea of Tex-Mex satay.
thank you for this wonderful challenge! Thailand was fun and I ate so much!!
Thanks for hosting, especially on such short notice! It was a fun challenge.
AWESOME Challenge! We loved it! Thank you!
I even marinated some boneless chickens breasts in the marinade a few nights ago, and grilled them. They were delicious too! And the leftovers made great chunky chicken salad!
Well done!
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