The delicious Sate

Sate also called satay, is a seasoned dish made from slices of meat chopped into small pieces that skewered using a stick of bamboo or midrib of palm leaves. Roasted or grilled over  wood charcoal fire. Then served with various seasonings, depending on each recipe used.

Sate can be made using mutton, lamb, chicken, beef, horses, buffalo and other meats. Even some satay seller using lizard meat, snails, and even snake meat. But the most commonly used and sold is made from mutton and chicken meat.

As I quoted from wikipedia Indonesia, Sate have originated in Java, Indonesia, and can be found anywhere in Indonesia and has been regarded as one of the national cuisine of Indonesia. Sate also popular in countries of Southeast Asia such as Malaysia, Singapore , Philippines, and Thailand. Sate is also popular in the Netherlands influenced Indonesian dishes that were it's coloni.

Sate is a very popular dish in Indonesia; even become my most favorite food to date. With various tribes and traditions of cookery has produced various types of sate. In Indonesia, sate can be obtained from a travelling sate vendor, street hawkers at a roadside small shop, until at an upscale restaurant, and is often presented in the party and a kenduri. Recipes and ways of making sate dependent variations and recipes of each region. Almost any kind of meat can be made sate. As the origin country of sate, Indonesia has a very varied of sate recipes.

Sate is equipped with a sauce, which can include soy sauce, peanut sauce, and others. Usually accompanied by pickles of sliced red onion, cucumber and cayenne pepper. Sate eaten with hot rice or, if in some areas are served with rice cake (Lontong) or Ketupat.

In Malaysia, satay is a popular dish—especially during celebrations—and can be found throughout the country. In Southern Philippines it is known as satti. 

'Although both Thailand and Malaysia claim it as their own, its Southeast Asian origin was in Java, Indonesia. There satay was developed from the Indian kebab brought by the Muslim traders. Even India cannot claim its origin, for there it was a legacy of Middle Eastern influence.'
— Jennifer Brennan (1988), Satay

International dishes similar to sate are Yakitori of Japanese, Shish Kebab of Turkey, Shashlik of Caucasians, Chuanr of China, and Sosatie of South Africa. Sate registered as ranked 14th in the World's 50 most delicious foods (50 Most Delicious Dishes in the World) through a reader poll conducted by CNN Go in 2011

The word "Sate" or "Satai" supposedly derived from tamil language, and it was supposedly invented by Javanese street vendors as an adaptation of Indian kebabs. This theory is based on the fact that satay has become popular in Java after the influx of Muslim Tamil Indian and Arab immigrants to Dutch East Indies in the early 19th century. Sate meats used by Indonesians and Malaysians — mutton and beef — are also favoured by Arabs and are not as popular in China as are pork and chicken.

From Java, Sate spread to various islands of Indonesia and produce various kinds of satay. At the end of the 19th century, Sate has crossed the Strait of Malacca to Malaysia, Singapore, and Thailand, brought by nomads Java and Madura, which began trading Sate in the neighboring countries.

Various Sate

Madura Sate, Padang Sate, Ponorogo Sate, Tegal Sate, Ambal Sate, Blora Sate, Banjar Sate, Makassar Sate dan masih banyak lagi jenis sate yang lainnya.

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