Beef Satay with Thai Peanut Sauce

This simple beef satay recipe is rather like the type you get in a restaurant. The hot button is a easy marinade and genuine peanut dipping sauce.

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Genuine Thai delicacies strives for a steadiness of sizzling, bitter, salt and candy. This beef satay recipe is an ideal combination of all these basic flavors in a single scrumptious appetizer. It’s easy to prep forward of time and takes lower than 10 minutes to sear.

Ingredient Notes

• Prime sirloin: this lower comes from the highest again finish of the animal and is normally rather less tender than cuts that come from the quick loin, nonetheless nonetheless very flavorful! We’re utilizing a marinade to assist tenderize the steak. You can too use a flank steak as an alternative. This lower is even much less tender, so I like to recommend reducing it towards the grain and marinading it for not less than 12 hours earlier than cooking.
• Tamari: we like to make use of a low sodium tamari, which is just a gluten free various to soy sauce. Nonetheless, you need to use soy sauce should you aren’t gluten free and have that available.
• Full fats coconut milk: this can be a staple in Thai cooking and fats on this ingredient helps switch fat-soluble flavors into the meat and helps the steak retain its mositure.
• Lime juice: each recipe and marinade wants somewhat acid to assist steadiness out the flavors! Lime is a key ingredient in Thai flavors.
• Pure maple syrup: I opted for this as a sweetener to maintain this recipe refined sugar free. You can too use honey or brown sugar should you desire.
• Pink curry paste: our favourite model is Thai Kitchen as a result of it has nice taste and it’s simply accessible. It’s within the worldwide part of the grocery retailer.
• Peanut butter: seize a creamy peanut butter that’s easy and/or drippy. I have a tendency to love this recipe higher with the drippy peanut butter as a result of it’s somewhat thinner. The consistency of your sauce and marinade might fluctuate primarily based on the kind of peanut butter you utilize.
• Curry powder and salt: these each add extra depth of taste within the marinade.

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How you can make beef satay

Lower and marinate the steak

1. Use a pointy knife to slice the steak into 1-inch cubes. First slice them into strips then once more into cubes. Do your finest to chop all of them the identical measurement for even cooking. Put aside.
2. Add the entire marinade components to a big bowl and whisk properly. It will likely be considerably thick. Add the cubed beef to the marinade and toss it properly to coat the steak then cowl with plastic wrap and marinate within the fridge for not less than 1 hour, however in a single day is right. See notes for marinating flank steak.

Prepare dinner the meat

1. Proper earlier than cooking, soak the wood skewers in heat water for 10-20 minutes. This helps keep away from them burning as you cook dinner on a better warmth.
2. Thread the bamboo skewers with the marinated beef (4-5 cubes on every. Discard any remaining marinade. Flip the range (or grill) as much as medium-high warmth on a griddle pan or skillet.  Prepare dinner on all 4 sides for about 2 minutes, 8 minutes complete. The interior temperature ought to attain about 145°F once you pull it off the warmth for a medium steak.  Permit the meat satay to relaxation for five minutes earlier than serving.

Make the sauce and serve

1. Whereas they’re resting, whisk collectively the entire sauce components. Serve the meat satay heat with the Thai peanut sauce and garnish desired toppings. We love chopped peanuts and cilantro.

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