Pork Satay (Indonesian Babi Sate)
Babi sate is a beloved Indonesian street food. Ground pork is blended smooth with garlic and onion, seasoned with kecap manis (Indonesian sweet soy sauce), shaped like a sausage around a chopstick, and pan-fried until golden. You can make it easily without skewers, and its sweet-savory flavor is perfect with rice or as a drinking snack.
Ingredients
Main
- Ground pork400 g
- Garlic cloves4 cloves
- Onion1/4
Seasoning
- Kecap manis (sweet soy sauce)40 g
- Water1 tablespoon
- Salt0.5 tsp
- Ground black pepper0.5 tsp
Directions
- 1
Prepare the ground pork.
- 2
Put the garlic, onion, water, salt, and pepper in a blender and blend until smooth.
- 3
Once the vegetables are blended, add the ground pork and blend together.
- 4
Transfer the smoothly blended pork mixture to a bowl.
- 5
Add the kecap manis and mix evenly.
- 6
Pinch off the finished pork mixture into suitable-sized portions.
- 7
Press the mixture onto the end of a chopstick and shape it into a long hot-dog form.
- 8
Heat oil in a pan and pan-fry over low heat until golden brown.
Tips
Traditional satay is skewered on bamboo sticks and grilled over charcoal, but here we shape it around chopsticks and pan-fry it for an easy version. Kecap manis is Indonesian sweet soy sauce; if you don't have it, substitute regular soy sauce with a little brown sugar dissolved in.