Any Indonesian recipes?!

Chicken Satay

2 lbs. boneless, skinless chicken breast or thigh meat
1 clove garlic, crushed
1 tsp. ground ginger
2 tsp. dark soy sauce
2 tsp. tamarind juice
bamboo skewers

Cut chicken into cubes. Mix together remaining ingredients and marinate chicken for two hours. Soak bamboo skewers in water for approximately 20 minutes.


Thread chicken onto skewers, four or five to a skewer, and grill over glowing coals or under preheated grill four minutes to a side or until chicken is brown on all sides.

Serve satay with peanut sauce and a sambal if you like it hot.


Peanut Sauce

8 Tb. crunchy peanut butter
1 1/2 cups water
3 tsp. garlic salt
3 tsp. dark brown sugar
Tamarind juice to taste
Coconut milk


Put peanut butter and water in a saucepan and stir over gentle heat until mixed. Remove from heat and add all other ingredients except coconut milk or additional water. Use coconut milk or water to make sauce thick yet pouring consistency. Check seasonings and add more salt and tamarind juice if needed.

Gado Gado: Boil small potatoes until they are tender, Hard boil 6 eggs. Steam green beans, pull the root hairs off of bean sprouts, wash and steam some spinach.

Make a sauce: chop one onion, one stalk of celery and one carrot into fine dice, saute them in a bit of veg oil stirring constantly. Add 1 cup of crunchy peanut butter, 1-10 oz tin of coconut milk and 1/2 cup of sweet red chili garlic sauce. Stir well to keep from sticking. Add 1 cup of diced firm tofu. Cook for 10 minutes. Serve with the cooked veggies on a bed of brown rice with some lime wedges to squeeze over the salads.

Chef, been to Bali