How to Prepare Homemade Mr Benn’s Bookshop

Mr Benn’s Bookshop.

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To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have mr benn’s bookshop using 29 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Mr Benn’s Bookshop:

1. {Take 500 g of organic chicken.
2. {Take 3 of shallots peeled and roughly chopped.
3. {Take 3 cm (1 1/2 inch) of piece of galangal or root ginger.
4. {Make ready 2 of lemongrass stalks, outer leaves removed and white part chopped.
5. {Prepare 1 cm (1/2 inch) of piece of turmeric, peeled and roughly chopped.
6. {Get 2 of garlic cloves peeled.
7. {Get 1 tbsp of ground coriander.
8. {Make ready 1 tsp of cumin.
9. {Take 1 tsp of palm sugar.
10. {Prepare 1 tsp of fish sauce.
11. {Prepare pinch of ground black pepper.
12. {Take 1 of small chilli, deseeded.
13. {Get 1 tsp of ground sea salt.
14. {Make ready 4 tbsps of peanut oil.
15. {Prepare of Peanut sauce.
16. {Make ready 1 cup of dry roasted peanuts.
17. {Make ready 1 tbsp of tamarind pulp.
18. {Get 1 cup of water.
19. {Get 1/4 cup of light oil.
20. {Make ready 1/2 tsp of salt to taste.
21. {Make ready 2 tbsps of palm sugar cut into pieces.
22. {Prepare 1 tsp of coriander powder.
23. {Get 1 tbsp of sweet soya sauce.
24. {Prepare of Spice paste.
25. {Make ready 4 of dried red chillies.
26. {Take 3 cloves of garlic, peeled.
27. {Take 3 of shallots, peeled and chopped.
28. {Get 1 stalk of lemongrass, white part only.
29. {Get 1 cm (1/2 inch) of galangal, peeled.

Instructions to make Mr Benn’s Bookshop:

1. Slice the chicken into thin slices..
2. Grind together the shallots, galangal, lemongrass, turmeric and garlic, coriander and cumin in a pestle and mortar until a rough paste. Add the fish sauce, sugar and chilli and season with a few grinds of salt and pepper..
3. Add to the paste and the peanut oil to the chicken mixing well to combine..
4. Cover with cling film and leave to marinate overnight in the fridge..
5. Soak 8 bamboo skewers in warm water. Thread the marinated chicken onto the skewers. Heat a griddle pan and brush with oil. Lay the skewers on the pan. Turn frequently until cooked through basting occasionally with a light oil..
6. For the peanut sauce, crush the peanuts with a pestle and mortar and set aside..
7. In a small bowl add the tamarind pulp to 1/4 cup warm water and set aside for 10 minutes. Sieve and discard the pulp. Soak the chillies in warm water to soften and drain..
8. Transfer the spice paste ingredients to a food processor, add 3 tablespoons of water and blend until combined..
9. In a saucepan, heat the oil on medium heat, add the spice paste and fry until aromatic..
10. Add the ground peanuts, tamarind, water, salt, sugar, coriander and soy sauce stirring to combine..
11. Cook the peanut sauce on medium heat stirring continuously for about 10 minutes until the peanut sauce thickens and the oil separates..
12. Serve the chicken skewers with the warm satay sauce..

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