Key Takeaways
- The Keto Chicken Kebab features fresh flavours and is a healthy low-carb dish, perfect for quick weeknight meals.
- This recipe draws inspiration from my cooking classes during travels, focusing on balancing heat with other flavours.
- Cook the kebabs by either baking them for 15 minutes or frying them in a pan; baking is the leaner option.
- I provide tips for enhancing the dish with lime juice and peanut sauce, which adds healthy fats and flavour.
- For more recipes, feel free to explore my links to related Chicken Satay-style dishes.
Table of contents
My Thermomix Chicken Satay sticks have a huge flavour profile! Serve with a peanut sauce and some green leaves for a healthy balance. Chicken Satay is a low-carb, takeaway-style meal you can quickly cook at home for a fabulous week night meal.
The inspiration for this recipe comes from some of our past holiday destinations. Whenever we travel I like to participate in cooking classes. Being in a local kitchen is such a privilege. I try and book small classes in family homes so I can get a real feel for the dishes, cooking techniques, and local culture.
Whilst this recipe is not from any particular class, it has been born of what I've learned from all the classes. The key to Asian cooking is learning how to balance the heat from the chili with sweet, salty, and sour ingredients. The finished Chicken Kebab is fresh, clean, and best of all healthy!
Naturally Low Carb Keto Chicken Kebab
A lot of takeaway meals are high in saturated fat and simple carbohydrates. These are all the things we are told we should try to avoid. But happily, Chicken Satay is naturally low in fat and has next to no simple carbohydrates. Of course, it's easy enough to spoil this by adding white rice or other accompaniments. But the way they are presented here is low-carb and low in saturated fats.
If you're on a very restrictive keto diet, you may want to further reduce the carbohydrates in the overall dish by replacing half the salad leaves with Konjac Noodles (no carb Slender Noodles).
I like to dress the salad leaves with a little bit of lime juice and smother the chicken sate with my peanut sauce. This gives the dish healthy fats, flavour, and substance to keep you feeling satisfied longer.
A link to my hot peanut sate sauce will be provided in an upcoming story. If you have a copy of my Asian Banquet Cookbook you will find a really delicious cold peanut sauce recipe in that book which would also be delicious with this dish.
Step by Step Instructions Thermomix Satay Chicken Kebabs Ayam
I use a Thermomix to blend the fresh garlic, ginger, lemongrass, and chilli with the chicken thigh fillets. A high-power food processor would also work, but you may need to process for a bit longer.
Cooking your Chicken Kebabs
You have 2 choices when it comes to cooking the kebabs.
- Place the kebabs on baking paper, spray with cooking oil and bake for 15 minutes, turning once. Bake at 180 degrees Celsius fan-forced.
- Place vegetable oil in a frying pan and fry the kebabs over a medium heat, turning regularly.
The leanest method of cooking would be to bake the kebabs in the oven. The nutritional information provided assumes the kebabs are baked.
Have you tried these other Chicken Satay Style Recipes?
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Thermomix Satay Chicken Kebab
Equipment
Ingredients
- 30 g eschallot or small brown onion
- 15 g garlic
- 15 g ginger
- ½ long red chili
- 12 g lemongrass ½ a stem approx
- 15 g coriander leaves fresh
- ½ lime juice only
- 550 g chicken thigh fillets 2 -3 cm dice
Instructions
- Place all the ingredients in the TM Bowl. Blend 20 Sec/Speed 7.30 g eschallot, 15 g garlic, 15 g ginger, ½ long red chili, 12 g lemongrass, 15 g coriander leaves, ½ lime, 550 g chicken thigh fillets
- Scrape down the bowl.
- Repeat 5 sec/Speed 7.
- preheat oven to 180 degrees celsius.
- Line a baking tray with paper.
- Remove the mixture from the TM bowl and form 14 kebabs onto small wooden skewers.
- Place the kebabs on the prepared baking tray and spray with cooking oil.
- Bake 15 minutes turning once throughout the cooking process.
Notes
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Nutrition
So was your first bite like being transported to your last Balinese holiday! I hope it was! We may not be able to travel at the moment, but I hope these flavours remind you of past holidays.
If you enjoyed the recipe please come back and leave me a comment. I love hearing from everyone, and it helps me to understand what recipes you may enjoy in the future 🙂
Happy Cooking
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Jackie says
Thanks so much, Julie,
I can see these make 14 kebabs for a cal count of 91 per serve- but how many in a serve? 3 as in the photo? Apologies if it is there but I have looked through several times & cannot see it. I will be making these soon!
Julie Carlyle says
Hi Jackie
I am so sorry that it wasn't clear. I will amend the nutritional information to make it easier to understand. The calculation given is for one kebab. Divide the mixture into 14 even balls and form it on to the skewer. Each kebab is then one serve and 91 calories.
I hope you enjoy the recipe. Happy Cooking
Julie