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hi, chris - i can't take credit for those awesome photos ~ they are marissa's, and they sure turned out great!
i made this over the weekend and it was truly a joy to prepare that went very well with the sate ajam (chicken satay) that we made - the flavours went perfectly together and i can see where it would also be good for pork, probably beef as well, and surely with fish. i made a quart of it and will certainly be doing some experimenting with it ~
a couple of necessary substitutions that i had to make due to what i had: i substituted fish sauce for the shrimp paste. the result was fine, but now i am just itching to see how it would have been with the shrimp paste ~ lol. another was that i used a couple-three splashes of frank's sauce instead of a chopped-up fresh hot pepper, since i didn't have any around. no worries there, either!
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On which preparations do you use this kind of sauce, Ron? I may have said it before; I'm a novice in Asian cooking. Sounds something to try. Very nice pictures!
Copied over from Marissa's post, using a recipe from Time/Life's Foods of the World, Pacific and Southeast Asian Cooking:
To make about 2 cups
2 tbsp vegetable oil 1/4 cup finely chopped shallots or substitute 1/4 cup finely chopped scallions, white part only 1 tsp finely chopped garlic 1/4 tsp shrimp paste 2 cups chicken stock, fresh or canned 1/2 cup shelled peanuts, preferably Spanish peanuts, pulverized in an electric blender or with a nut grinder or mortar and pestle 1 tbsp ketjap manis
Pour in the chicken stock and bring to a boil over high heat. Stirring constantly, add the peanuts, ketjap manis, lime juice, ginger and chilies. Reduce the heat to low and, stirring occasionally, simmer uncovered for 10 minutes, or until the sauce is thick enough to coat the spoon heavily. Serve at once.
If necessary, the sauce may be prepared ahead and reheated. In this event it may thicken as it stands. Thin it is necessary with a tablespoon or more of water.
We did, as usual, leave out the shrimp paste. I thought about using chunky peanut butter for the recipe but had purchased peanuts for another dish, so figured I go with the book version. I ground the peanuts with the immersion blender until it was a bit gooey but still rather chunky. I probably could have gotten it smoother, but this seemed to be a good stopping point as I like a chunky peanut sauce. A lot of the clumps are actually peanut butter clumps and not just whole peanuts.
After chopping and doing all the prep, here's the ingredients again:
Once this boils, you add the rest of the ingredients and simmer for 10 minutes, or until thick. After 10 minutes, I didn't feel it was any thicker.
After another 5 minutes simmering, I decided to use the immersion blender again, thinking I may have just not gotten the peanuts into a smooth enough paste to thicken the sauce. A final 5 minutes finally yielded a nice thick sauce still with chunky peanuts remaining.
I even let it cool and sit in the fridge for about 2 hours and it was just a little thicker when reheating - a texture I liked!
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