Light Bites Recipes - Pork Sate with Pineapple Sauce Recipe

Ingredients

• 500g/1 1/4lb pork fillet (tenderloin), cubed

• salt and ground black pepper

For the marinade:

• 4 shallots, chopped
  4 garlic cloves, chopped

• 5ml/1 tsp ground coriander

• 5ml/1 tsp ground cumin

• 2.5ml/1/2 tsp ground turmeric

• 30ml/2 tbsp dark soy sauce

• 30ml/2 tbsp sesame oil

• fresh coriander (cilantro) leaves, roughly chopped, to garnish

For the sauce:

• 4 shallots, chopped

• 2 garlic cloves, chopped

• 4 dried red chilies, soaked in warm water until soft, seeded
  and chopped

• 1 lemon grass stalk, chopped

• 25g/1oz fresh root ginger, chopped

• 30ml/2 tbsp sesame oil

• 200ml/7fl oz/scant 1 cup coconut milk

• 10ml/2 tsp tamarind paste

• 10ml/2 tsp palm sugar

• 1 fresh Pineapple, peeled, cored and cut into slices

Serves 4

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Method:

1. To make the marinade, using a mortar and pestle, grind the shallots and garlic to a paste. Stir in the spices, soy sauce and oil. Rub the marinade into the meat. Cover and set aside for 2 hours at cool room temperature.

2. Meanwhile, prepare the sauce. Pound the shallots, garlic, chilies, lemon grass and ginger to form a paste.

3. Heat the oil in a heavy pan and cook the paste for 2-3 minutes, then stir in the coconut milk, tamarind paste and sugar. Bring to the boil, then simmer for 5 minutes. Season and leave to cool. 3

4. Using a mortar and pestle, crush three pineapple slices; beat them into the sauce. Soak eight bamboo skewers in cold water.

5. Prepare a barbecue. Drain the skewers and thread them with the marinated meat. Cook over the coals with the remaining slices of pineapple alongside. Char the pineapple slices and chop them into chunks.

6. Grill the meat until just cooked, about 2-3 minutes each side, and serve immediately with the pineapple chunks and the sauce.

Note: Children love these lightly spiced kebabs.