As the birthplace of satay in Southeast Asia, Indonesia has derived different roasting and eating methods in various places. If you have the chance to visit Indonesia, don’t miss these five most popular Indonesian satays:
1.Sate Madura
The early residents of Madura Island, located in the northeastern part of Java Island, spread the local satay to various islands in Indonesia, which is the hero of Satay becoming the Indonesian national dish. Now the “satay” generally refers to Madura satay. Besides the most commonly used chicken meat, there are also beef and mutton. Small marinated pieces of meat are skewered into skewers. After grilling, they are drizzled with sweet soy sauce, peanut sauce (that is, satay sauce), and sprinkled with fresh shallots (sometimes fried shallots) and chili peppers.
Madura Satay is served with lontong (a type of rice cake) or ketupat (ketupat, a rice cake in the shape of a diamond wrapped in palm leaves. In Malaysia, there are glutinous rice dumplings). Some people squeeze lime juice over the satay before eating it for extra flavor.
2.Sate Padang
Padang Satay, known for its chewy texture and strong meat aroma, belongs to Padang cuisine (also known as Minangkabau cuisine) in western Sumatra. Different from the commonly known satay, Padang satay uses beef offal. The sauce uses a special yellow thick sauce that is mixed with rice flour, beef or offal gravy, turmeric, ginger, onion, galangal, curry powder, salt, and coriander.
3.Sate Tegal
Originating from Zhige City in Central Java, Zhige Satay pays attention to the freshness and tenderness of the meat, and uses five-month-old lamb. Chika Satay will not be eaten with rice cakes and peanut butter, but with rice and fresh tomatoes.
4.Sate Lilit
If you travel to Bali, you will definitely see this special type of satay, which is very different from other satays in appearance, texture and taste, that is “package satay”. “Lilit” means “covered” in Balinese, and the name comes from the fact that satay uses mashed meat to coat bamboo sticks. The mashed meat may be pork, chicken, beef, fish, or even turtle meat. , also mixed with shredded coconut, coconut milk, lemon juice, shallots, pepper. In addition, the bamboo sticks are not ordinary slender bamboo sticks, and the shape is wider and flat, which is easy for the meat paste to absorb.
5.Sate Kere
Although satay is a barbecue dish, the creativity of satay is not limited to barbecue! Poor satay is baked with a soft tempeh, served with sweet soy sauce and peanut butter on the side. The reason why there is such a way of eating is mainly from the Dutch colonial period. Only nobles and officials could afford meat, and the common people who could not afford meat came up with the delicacy of poor satay. Although it sounds like a vegetarian dish at first glance, the chong satay is actually mixed with beef offal, including beef lungs, beef kidneys, beef hearts, and more.
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