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    Post #1 - May 26th, 2023, 4:57 am
    Post #1 - May 26th, 2023, 4:57 am Post #1 - May 26th, 2023, 4:57 am
    I've never forgotten and never found the equal of my first chicken satay, 26 years ago now, chicken pieces grilled on skewers with a peanut dipping sauce and cool cucumber accompaniment, in the huge basement dining hall of a Japanese shopping mall in Hong Kong, a deliciously cool space in every sense on a sweltering day outside. (We used to say we arrived during Hong Kong's Humidity Festival, which runs 12 months a year).

    I've been saving recipes for chicken, beef, and shrimp skewers, kebabs, and satay for a long time but have never really dug in to testing them and developing regular ways to do them. Now I want to. I bought a large package of boneless skinless chicken thighs to do some testing this Memorial Day weekend. I'll be using either a gas grill or a little charcoal hibachi. I'm going to start with Thai-style chicken satay with peanut sauce, but I'm interested in learning about anyone's techniques for any kind of chicken, beef, or shrimp on skewers: kebab, yakitori, satay; your marinades, your dipping sauces. Do the same marinade recipes work for all three? What's essential to (either the marinade or the sauce for) a Japanese yakitori vs a Thai satay vs a Middle Eastern kebab? Some marinade recipes discourage me with a lot of ingredients I don't see using for anything else (do I need ground coriander, or just some cilantro stems?) I'm open to any advice, techniques, and recipes.
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  • Post #2 - May 26th, 2023, 6:25 pm
    Post #2 - May 26th, 2023, 6:25 pm Post #2 - May 26th, 2023, 6:25 pm
    Great topic. I look forward to any suggestions, of which I have none.
  • Post #3 - May 27th, 2023, 6:55 am
    Post #3 - May 27th, 2023, 6:55 am Post #3 - May 27th, 2023, 6:55 am
    Ground coriander is quite different from cilantro, and a key flavor in curries, Middle Eastern, Thai and other cuisines.

    I like kebabs for their portability - a bag full of marinated chunks of meat (or paneer, haloumi, or tofu) in your cooler and you can elevate a picnic or camping dinner. I once did a Thai grilled chicken (not Satay, from shesimmers), putting charcoal on an old metal shelf, skewers suspended between two stacks of bricks as an instant hibachi.
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    -- Lin Yutang
  • Post #4 - May 27th, 2023, 2:06 pm
    Post #4 - May 27th, 2023, 2:06 pm Post #4 - May 27th, 2023, 2:06 pm
    We do a lot of Yakatori with the chicken parts from the chickens I get from my farmer friend. I got two last week and am do for another two this weekend.
    My friend is very good in making sure each chicken has a neck, liver, heart and Gizzard. Along with the part that goes over the fence last, strips from the thighs or breasts, I thread them on wooden skewers along with veggies and grill. The sauces are a standard Japanese three part mix, vinegar, shoyu, sugar and I add grated ginger. In watching UTube vids from Japan, it appears to me that the sauce is brushed on while cooking or added after with no marination. I also make a curry dip with curry powder, sour cream and salt. Hot mustard or other type chile condiments rounds out the usual sauces.
    I rarely do Thai with peanut sauce, no help there except to say add fish sauce and cilantro.
    Coriander is for kabobs.
    I do a lot of ground lamb kabobs and the flavors range from Turkish, to Pakistani and Afgan. Usually garbanzo bean flour is added as a binder.
    Utube is your friend here.
    I save videos that show what I want to prepare.
    Lately Chapli Kabobs have caught my eye and the method to make them. Basically hamburger patty shape but loaded with spices, fried in oil. I add fresh pomegranate seeds.
    -Richard

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