Chicken with spicy peanut butter sauce
03-08-10 · Chicken, duck & turkey Tags: Kitchen experiments, peanut butter
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If you like chicken satay with peanut butter sauce, you’re going to enjoy this. No need to skewer and grill. Whole chicken thighs, with bones for maximum flavor, are lightly browned then braised in spices, soy sauce and rice wine vinegar. When the chicken is tender, peanut butter is added and the dish is boiled gently until the sauce is rich and thick.
Serves 4.
Ingredients:
8 chicken thighs (or drumsticks or wings), with skin and bones
1 onion, roughly chopped
3 cloves of garlic, crushed and chopped
a thumb-sized piece of ginger, julienned
a heaping tbsp. of sambal oelek (or 2 to 3 chopped bird’s eye chili)
4 tbsps. of light soy sauce (I used Kikkoman)
4 tbsps. of rice wine vinegar
about 1/4 c. of sweetened peanut butter (I used Lily’s)
patis (fish sauce), to taste
cracked black pepper
finely sliced onion leaves, to garnish
Place the chicken thighs, skin side down, in a hot frying pan. Cook over high heat until the skins render fat and turn brown. Flip to brown the other side. Pour off the fat, if you prefer.
Add the onion, ginger, garlic and sambal oelek (or chilis). Pour in the soy sauce, fish sauce and rice wine vinegar.
Stir the chicken with the sauces and spices. Bring to the boil then lower the heat. Cover and cook over low heat for 30 to 40 minutes, depending on the size of the chicken thighs.
Add the peanut butter. Stir to dissolve the peanut butter in the hot liquid.
Boil, uncovered, until the sauce is rich and thick. Add black pepper. Season with more fish sauce, if needed.
Sprinkle with finely chopped onion leaves and serve with rice or unleavened bread.
Looks yummy…will try it out with minimum or no chilis though. I have two little children who might not be able to consume spicy chicken yet…but I bet they’d take anything with peanut butter.
You can use finger chilis — with seeds removed — for a very mild version.
this recipe looks yummy!:)
but is it okay to substitute beef ribs or pork ribs instead of the chicken?
You asked that already in another comment thread and I responded already.
Your right. Why bother with the skewers. When you can get all the flavor in this dish.
hi,
pardon me for my ignorance, but what is rice wine vinegar? is it milder? is it ok to substitute this dish with other vinegar like datu puti vinegar? thanks in advance
Yes, much milder. And a bit sweet. Cane vinegar is not a good substitute.
thanks for the info
may i know what brand of rice wine vinegar do you use for this recipe? TIA 
I don’t know, really. Chinese characters in the label.
umm how about apple cider vinegar? medyo mild din yun diba, do you think good substitute siya? TIA again
I’ve never tried using apple cider vinegar so I can’t say.
it’s ok
will do some experimenting na lang 
hope i’d be lucky enough to find a bottle of rice wine vinegar..
Connie! I tried this last night! It was awesome! I had to make some substitutions with rice wine vinegar, as I did not have it. I used some regular Datu Puti (yes we have Datu Puti here in Heidelberg!) vinegar and some rice wine!
i will try this chicken with peanut butter chili, coz my kidz like chicken, but i dont know what else to do with the chicken always fied, tinola, chcken cooked in pine apple juice
if you can post more dishes for chicken pls. the one that is not to complicated to cook thanks.
Ms. Connie,
I cooked this recipe of yours last night and my family loved it. Once again, you’re such a blessing ever since I moved here. I also baked the strawberry streusel cake after I cooked this chicken in peanut sauce dish and naubos din agad.
The chicken really blends in perfectly with the peanut sauce and the onion leaves. Excellent!
parang kare kare to right? kase merong peanut butter eh.
Nah, not even similar.