Mr Benn’s Bookshop
Mr Benn’s Bookshop

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To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have mr benn’s bookshop using 29 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Mr Benn’s Bookshop:
  1. Get 500 g organic chicken
  2. Make ready 3 shallots peeled and roughly chopped
  3. Make ready 3 cm (1 1/2 inch) piece of galangal or root ginger
  4. Take 2 lemongrass stalks, outer leaves removed and white part chopped
  5. Take 1 cm (1/2 inch) piece of turmeric, peeled and roughly chopped
  6. Take 2 garlic cloves peeled
  7. Make ready 1 tbsp ground coriander
  8. Prepare 1 tsp cumin
  9. Take 1 tsp palm sugar
  10. Get 1 tsp fish sauce
  11. Make ready pinch ground black pepper
  12. Make ready 1 small chilli, deseeded
  13. Take 1 tsp ground sea salt
  14. Prepare 4 tbsps peanut oil
  15. Take Peanut sauce
  16. Get 1 cup dry roasted peanuts
  17. Take 1 tbsp tamarind pulp
  18. Take 1 cup water
  19. Prepare 1/4 cup light oil
  20. Make ready 1/2 tsp salt to taste
  21. Prepare 2 tbsps palm sugar cut into pieces
  22. Make ready 1 tsp coriander powder
  23. Get 1 tbsp sweet soya sauce
  24. Get Spice paste
  25. Take 4 dried red chillies
  26. Take 3 cloves garlic, peeled
  27. Prepare 3 shallots, peeled and chopped
  28. Take 1 stalk lemongrass, white part only
  29. Get 1 cm (1/2 inch) galangal, peeled
Instructions to make Mr Benn’s Bookshop:
  1. Slice the chicken into thin slices.
  2. Grind together the shallots, galangal, lemongrass, turmeric and garlic, coriander and cumin in a pestle and mortar until a rough paste. Add the fish sauce, sugar and chilli and season with a few grinds of salt and pepper.
  3. Add to the paste and the peanut oil to the chicken mixing well to combine.
  4. Cover with cling film and leave to marinate overnight in the fridge.
  5. Soak 8 bamboo skewers in warm water. Thread the marinated chicken onto the skewers. Heat a griddle pan and brush with oil. Lay the skewers on the pan. Turn frequently until cooked through basting occasionally with a light oil.
  6. For the peanut sauce, crush the peanuts with a pestle and mortar and set aside.
  7. In a small bowl add the tamarind pulp to 1/4 cup warm water and set aside for 10 minutes. Sieve and discard the pulp. Soak the chillies in warm water to soften and drain.
  8. Transfer the spice paste ingredients to a food processor, add 3 tablespoons of water and blend until combined.
  9. In a saucepan, heat the oil on medium heat, add the spice paste and fry until aromatic.
  10. Add the ground peanuts, tamarind, water, salt, sugar, coriander and soy sauce stirring to combine.
  11. Cook the peanut sauce on medium heat stirring continuously for about 10 minutes until the peanut sauce thickens and the oil separates.
  12. Serve the chicken skewers with the warm satay sauce.

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