I still have an excessive amount of coconut milk and peanut sauce. Does anyone have good uses for either of these things?
Make nasi lemak and some satay! (aka coconut rice and grilled meat skewers )
The peanut sauce should go well with the satay, and you just add the coconut milk to rice to make the nasi lemak.
I made both of these things. Thank you for the great suggestions. This was a very good birthday meal!
I used
this recipe for the chicken, except for the marinade I substituted a tablespoon of soy sauce for the salt and added about a teaspoon of fresh grated ginger. I let it marinate for a little over two hours before skewering about half the chicken. Since I don't have a grill I put the skewers on a foil-lined tray and broiled them until they browned a bit. The fat drippings started to burn by the end, so it probably would have been wise to change out the foil before that happened.
While this was going on I also made the rice and prepared the vegetables. I boiled one cup of jade rice in two cups of coconut milk. The internet tells me it's usually flavored with pandan leaves, which I do not have, so I threw in a couple pinches of fresh ginger. I should have used a little more. The vegetables are sliced nappa cabbage, chopped cilantro (I used too much of this), and some sugar peas. It turns out sugar peas are pretty good for dipping in peanut sauce.
Anyway, the chicken and rice were both tasty. Half of the chicken is still marinating in the fridge, so I'll make that tomorrow and hopefully it'll be even more flavorful. I will definitely make these again in the future. It would be cool to find some pandan leaves somewhere and try out coconut rice with them.
I didn't cook more than a frozen pizza yesterday, so today is 3 of 5 this week on my cooking self-challenge thing. I still have a decent amount of coconut milk and peanut sauce left, so I am listening if anyone else has cool things to do with those.