Craving of Sate Padang

It is quite amusing, coz we won't be able to buy 'sate Padang' in Padang, West Sumatra.
Why?

Because sate hawker in Padang won’t call it ‘sate Padang’. They declare this type of indulging food as ‘sate’ only. No need to mention ‘Padang’ again.

Got it now?

Anyone who wants to taste authentic Minang cuisine should include sate Padang in their wish list. Who can resist the perfectly cooked meat, rice dumplings, with thick spicy sauce, all decorated with fried onion? I can't. It's too delicious to resist.

This marvellous sate is made by boiling the meat with several crushed spices (onion, garlic, coriander, chili, pepper, fennel, ginger, galangal, lemon grass, tamarind, lime leaves, etc). Cut the meat into dices and thread them onto skewers. Grill the meat for few minutes. To make the sauce, use the leftover stock from meat, which is thickened with rice flour and water. Serve the sate with fried onion on top.  A link to a full recipe is here: Madame Hertie's Kitchen.

To make it more suspicious, people said the sate from street hawkers or restaurants is much more delicious than the homemade sate. It feels like something missing when we cook our own sate. It could be the proportion of the spices. But, it is most likely because lack of smoke flavour when we grill the meat. Indeed, I think the smoke flavour that makes the satemuch more tempting and mouth watering.

Pekanbaru,