Dinner · 25 min · Amounts not specified
Suya
Nigerian street kebab: ground peanut, chili, ginger on seared beef. Onion and lime after. Don't make satay. It should be dry-spice, not a sauce.
The sheet · 4 plates · 25 min
easyWhy tonight. Nigerian street kebab: ground peanut, chili, ginger on seared beef. Onion and lime after. Don't make satay. It should be dry-spice, not a sauce.
What it needs
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- beef
- peanuts
- chili flakes
- ginger
- onion
Good if you have them, fine if you do not: lime.
Method
- Grind the peanuts to a coarse powder and mix them with the spices — that powder is the coating and the name.
- Do not let it go oily in the grinder. Pulse it, and stop while it is still dry and sandy.
- Meat sliced very thin, coated dry, and cooked fast over high heat.
- More of the raw spice mix over the top at the end, with raw onion and lime.
Technique coach
What the method is trying to make happen
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An educational plan from a curated corpus. Not a nutrition, allergen, or doneness guarantee.
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The technique underneath this
- SearingGetting a surface hot and dry enough that browning outruns cooking, so the crust arrives before the middle is gone.grey and steaming · pale after five minutes · burnt fond · grey band under the crust
- Building a sourSpirit, citrus and sugar in a fixed geometry, then adjusted for how strong the particular bottle in front of you is.thin and sharp · cloying · spirit disappears · no foam
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Published minimums for what is in this
These are published minimums, not doneness preferences and not a verdict about any particular piece of food. Ground meat sits above whole cuts of the same animal because grinding moves the surface through the middle — the species is not the reason.
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- Salt and seasoning3 Salting Methods for Better-Tasting Meats | Techniquely With Lan LamAmerica's Test KitchenThree salting timings on the same cut, and what the wait actually does to the texture.Link checked 2026-09-08
- Cocktail structureBasic Cocktails - How To Make A DaiquiriCocktail ChemistryThe plainest sour there is, which makes base-acid-sweet balance easy to taste rather than merely read.197K+ views at the September 2026 review. · Link checked 2026-09-08
- Syrups and citrusHow to Make Fresh Juice for CocktailsEpicuriousJuicing citrus fresh for drinks, and the plain reason bottled juice does not work.Link checked 2026-09-08
Why each of these is on the list
What the ingredients are actually doing
- beef
- Fat and connective tissue decide the method.
- peanuts
- Crunch and fat, and roasting them yourself is a noticeable improvement over the bag.
- chili flakes
- Heat you can dose. Bloomed in oil they spread through everything; scattered at the table they stay sharp and sit on top. Same flakes, two different dishes.
- ginger
- Bright and hot when raw, mellow and warm when cooked.
- onion
- The base under most of this library.
Missing one of them? The substitutions are written against those jobs rather than against a chart, so they say what each replacement costs this dish in particular.
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