Chicken Satay by: Kaitlin 76 Comments Jump to Recipe Posted:5/19/2023Updated:5/19/2023 Chicken Satay is a delicious alternative to your standard saucy Thai curries, with chicken marinated in a positively potent mixture of red curry paste and coconut.We sear the skewers to perfection, and serve them up with a tasty peanut sauce.It’s a great flavorful weeknight dinner or party appetizer (cook the chicken pieces individually, add toothpicks, and voila!).

However you serve it, people will clamor for more of these flavorful little bites.Note: This post was originally published on June 18, 2019.We have since updated it with clearer photos, more detail, metric measurements, and more.

The recipe remains the same.Enjoy! A Few Shortcuts to Make Your Life Easier A lot of recipes call for an elaborate—and I’m sure, more authentic—blend of ginger, lemongrass, garlic, shallots, and spices.For the average cook, we find it’s easier to use a good Thai red curry paste to do the heavy lifting in the taste department.

We always use Maesri—you probably recognize the little red can from some of our other favorites like 15-minute Coconut Curry Noodle Soup! Nagi over at Recipe Tin Eats gave us the idea to lean hard on red curry paste for the chicken marinade.This frees you up to worry about other important add-ins like fish sauce and lime juice, for extra goodness.One other modification on this recipe is that while “satay” is a fun t

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