Minced Seafood Satay (Sate Lilit)

Ingredients:
10 oz skinned boneless snapper fillet or other firm white fish
10 oz raw shrimp, peeled
2 cups freshly grated coconut, or 1½ cups dried unsweetened coconut, moistened
½ cup spice paste for seafood
5 fragrant lime leaves, cut in fine shreds
1 tsp. black peppercorns, finely crushed
2 tsp. salt
3-5 green bird’s eye chilies, very finely chopped
2 Tbs. brown sugar
Lemongrass, cut in 6-inch length, or bamboo skewers
Instructions:
Combine fish with shrimp and mince very finely in a food processor or with a chopper. Add all other ingredients, except lemongrass and mix well.
Mold a heaped tablespoonful of this mixture around a bamboo skewer or over trimmed stalks of lemongrass and grill over charchoal until golden brown.

Helpful hints: It is important to use only fresh shrimp and fish for this particular dish