30 minute Chicken Satay

Ok, so technically I didn't cook this... I helped, but Hubbie did most of the work.  This is another recipe from Jamie's 30 minute meals - Chicken Skewers, Satay Sauce, Fiery Noodle Salad and Fruit and Mint Sugar.

Made for our anniversary meal as I was working late.  I love chicken Satay, Hubbie loves pineapple, but neither of us like the other.  So, this is what we started with:

(Well aware the chilli looks odd, this is because we freeze them...works really well)

The food processor comes out again for this recipe and all the ingredients for the satay sauce go in and come out looking pretty tasty.  Some of this goes in a bowl for dipping later.  The rest is used to coat the chicken.

The chicken skewers are really easy to do - I have done skewers before, cut chicken up and threaded it on... Jamie makes it easier, you thread the skewers through the breasts then just cut through once done.  Simples.
These are then grilled, turning later and drizzling with some honey.

The sides for this dish are little gem lettuces, cut so you can use them to scoop up chicken and noodles later and noodles.

The noodles are put in hot water to soak.  Meanwhile, you hit some cashew nuts with a rolling pin, which is always good fun, and heat up the frying pan so you can toast them.

Red onion, chilli, and coriander stalks are chopped in the food processor then put in the serving bowl with soy sauce, olive oil, lime juice, sesame oil and fish sauce - I love what fish sauce does to food, but wow does it smell awful!  Once the noodles are ready and drained they are added to the bowl along with the cashews and coriander leaves.  You toss that together and serve.

Dessert was the pineapple.  I HATE pineapple, but apparently if you don't, this is pretty good... lay slices of pinapple on a plate with some blueberries, in a pestle and mortar pound some sugar and mint leaves and scatter this mixture over the fruit.  Serve with coconut yoghurt.

So this is what the meal looked like:

and this is what my plate looked like:

The boy did good... took him longer that 30 minutes - closer to 45, but he doesn't like having 6 things on the go at the same time and will normally cook by arranging everything in little pots to be added when required so this way of cooking is a little odd for him.

The meal was great, even Hubbie liked the satay and he would normally hate this.  Dessert was ok, but I wasn't really expecting to like it anyway.