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Supercharged Satay Chicken

Hands down my favourite recipe from book 5 - I even cooked this one live on the Today Show ?
4.94 from 31 votes
Serving: 4
Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 2 hours 30 minutes
Total Time 2 hours 50 minutes
Servings 5

Ingredients
 

  • 1.25kg chicken thigh fillets, sliced into strips
  • 1 medium brown onion, diced
  • 1 heaped tsp minced garlic
  • 1 x 270g can full fat coconut cream
  • 1 cup crunchy peanut butter
  • 2 tsp cornflour
  • 1 small red chilli deseeded and fine diced
  • 80ml kecap manis (sweet soy sauce)
  • 2 tsp soy sauce
  • 1Tbsp brown sugar
  • 1tsp fish sauce

Instructions
 

  • Add chicken, onion and garlic to a searing slow cooker (or fry pan) and sear/seal for 5-10mins. No need to brown chicken, just seal it and soften onion.
  • Combine all other listed ingredients in a jug and mix with a stick mixer or blender to thoroughly combine peanut butter through the coconut milk mix.
  • Pour over chicken and onion and garlic and turn back to slow cooking setting. (If used fry pan move to slow cooker now)
  • Cook on low with tea towel trick in place for 2.5hrs
  • Serve on brown rice

Notes

  • This produces a lovely thick strong satay sauce. You can reduce the peanut butter to ½ cup if you don’t like a strong peanut taste but we loved it exactly as it was in our family.
  • You can also swap crunchy peanut butter for smooth if you prefer and add 1/3 crushed peanuts before serving if you rather.
  • The 1 small chilli (without seeds) wasn’t spicy and our 5yr old happily ate this with no concerns