Easy chicken skewers with healthy peanut sauce
Here’s a recipe which has it all. It’s healthy, fancy, delicious, and ready in a flash! Especially if you follow my golden tip to make a big batch of this simple healthy peanut butter sauce, and freeze it in several portions. Just pop it out of the freezer to turn a simple chicken dish into a real feast.
Most kids love peanut butter and will go crazy over this healthy satay sauce. I usually serve it with brown rice or quinoa and some green veggies like asparagus, broccoli, or string beans. In Summer I like it with a fresh green salad or a raw cauliflower carrot salad like the one in this picture.
To make the sauce you simply blend all the ingredients (coconut milk, tamari, peanut butter, garlic, and spices) and then briefly heat it to obtain a deliciously creamy sauce.
IS COCONUT MILK HEALTHY?
Every part of the coconut - the flesh, the water, and the oil - features among the world’s healthiest foods. Coconut milk is, in fact, the liquid that comes from the grated meat. It’s high in fat, but don’t worry because it’s mainly composed of the healthy medium-chained fatty acids, called lauric acid. This fat is very rare and its only other abundant source in nature is human breast milk. Lauric acid has powerful anti-viral and anti-bacterial virtues and has the ability to destroy a wide variety of disease-causing organisms.
Coconuts are also an excellent source of manganese, molybdenum, and copper, and are high in selenium and zinc, two health-promoting and immune-boosting nutrients. Make sure to buy whole coconut milk instead of light from which much of the good fat has been removed, and carefully scan for additives.
Ingredients
Serves 4
Serve with rice or quinoa, and your preferred veggies (carrots, string beans, bok choi, Chinese cabbage...).
*Unless stated differently, my recipes are measured with US measuring cups like these ones.
Directions
Start by preparing the rice, quinoa, veggies etc.
Prepare the sauce by mixing all ingredients in a blender or food processor (this works by hand in a bowl as well).
Cut the chicken breasts into small cubes, put in a salad bowl, add a few spoons of the sauce, and stir to cover the chicken. If you’re in a real hurry, you can also just cut the chicken breasts into thin strips lengthwise. This way they’ll bake quicker and you won’t lose time putting them on wooden sticks.
Put the remainder of the sauce in a saucepan and gently heat for about 5-10 minutes, until you obtain the desired consistency. You want the sauce to be creamy, but not too thick either. Add some water if you want a thinner sauce.
In the meantime, put the chicken on the skewers and fry on all sides until done.
Serve the chicken with the sauce, rice or quinoa, and side veggies.
You can store any leftover sauce in the fridge for a week, or in the freezer for up to 6 months.
Ingredients
Directions
Start by preparing the rice, quinoa, veggies etc.
Prepare the sauce by mixing all ingredients in a blender or food processor (this works by hand in a bowl as well).
Cut the chicken breasts into small cubes, put in a salad bowl, add a few spoons of the sauce, and stir to cover the chicken. If you’re in a real hurry, you can also just cut the chicken breasts into thin strips lengthwise. This way they’ll bake quicker and you won’t lose time putting them on wooden sticks.
Put the remainder of the sauce in a saucepan and gently heat for about 5-10 minutes, until you obtain the desired consistency. You want the sauce to be creamy, but not too thick either. Add some water if you want a thinner sauce.
In the meantime, put the chicken on the skewers and fry on all sides until done.
Serve the chicken with the sauce, rice or quinoa, and side veggies.
You can store any leftover sauce in the fridge for a week, or in the freezer for up to 6 months.