Yangtze Chicken Skewers Food

GRILLED CHICKEN SKEWERS

Steps:

• Preheat a grill or grill pan to medium heat.
• To make the peanut sauce, put the peanut butter in a blender with the soy sauce, honey, ginger, red pepper flakes, chili oil and lime juice. Add 1/4 cup very hot water as you blend the mixture. Check the consistency and add a little more hot water if needed to make it very smooth. Transfer the sauce to a small dish, cover it with plastic wrap and set aside.
• Brush the grill with oil. Thread the chicken onto the skewers and grill on both sides until the chicken is done in the middle, 2 to 3 minutes per side. Remove to a serving platter and sprinkle on the cilantro.
• Serve the skewers with dishes of the peanut sauce and a good-quality barbecue sauce for dipping.

STICKY BBQ CHICKEN SKEWERS

Steps:

• Place all the SAUCE ingrediants into a pan. Bring to a boil and stir every 20 or so seconds until the sugar has dissolved. Allow to partially cool other wise the chicken will start to cook.
• Cut chicken up into kebab-sized pieces and put into a bowl with the sauce. Leave for 30 minutes at least to marinade.
• Thread chicken onto wooden (or metal) skewers with pepper into between each piece.
• Line the base of a grill pan with foil, grill for 10 to 12 minutes turning every 4-5 minutes. Brush sauce on the skewers with a pastry brush every time you turn them, until the chicken is thoroughly cooked.
• If you are having the suggested side, boil rice until cooked through, (if you don't add too much water, the rice should soak up the water nicely) add the peas and stir until they are cooked. Drain rice.
• Serve the skewers with the rice and enjoy! Don't forget to let me know what you think!

SPICY CHICKEN SKEWERS

Steps:

• 1. Soak skewers in water for 30 minutes.
• 2. While soaking skewers, combine crumbs, chili powder, black pepper, salt, and red pepper in a shallow dish.
• 3. Cut chicken into strips, thread onto skewers. Brush chicken with melted butter or margarine. Roll in crumb mixture.
• 4. Place chicken skewers in a single layer on a lightly greased baking sheet. Bake in a 400 degree oven for 8 to 10 minutes or until tender and no longer pink, turning once.
• 5. While chicken is baking, stir together sour cream and cilantro in small bowl. Serve alongside chicken.

CHICKEN KABOBS

Steps:

• Cut all veggies and chicken into equal sized pieces.
• Combine all the sauce ingredients in a sauce pan and boil for a few minutes, let cool.
• Pour most of the sauce into a zip lock bag and place cut up chicken in the bag and squeeze it all around until it is mixed up nice and good.
• Place in refrigerator for at least an hour (the longer, the better I feel).
• Put veggies in the reserved sauce.
• When ready to cook, heat the grill up (I use my George Foreman with good results and broiler).
• Thread skewers with chicken and veggies.
• Grill until chicken is done (about 10-15 minutes), basting constantly with the reserved marinating sauce from the veggies.
• (You can double the sauce ingredients if you feel you do not have enough; also feel free to add more veggies. I add peppers and mushrooms sometimes).

CHICKEN SKEWERS WITH TZATZIKI

Steps:

• Soak eight bamboo skewers in water. Using sharp kitchen scissors, chop the chicken into small pieces. Pop into a plastic box with a lid. Pare strips of lemon zest from the lemon using a vegetable peeler, then juice the lemon as well. Add both the peel and the juice to the chicken in the box along with the oregano and the garlic, crushed in. Season generously, mix and put in the fridge for 15 mins with the lid on. Deseed and chop the peppers into similar-sized pieces to those of the chicken.
• Heat a griddle pan to high while you get the chicken out. Discard the lemon zest and thread the chicken onto the skewers, alternating every few bits of chicken with a piece of red pepper followed by a piece of yellow pepper. Griddle for 10 mins, turning halfway.
• While the skewers are cooking, make the tzatziki. Get a box grater and a bowl. Cut the cucumber into long lengths, discarding the watery seedy core. Grate into the bowl, then grate the ¼ garlic clove. Season generously and stir in the Greek yogurt. Drizzle with a little extra virgin olive oil.
• Serve the skewers hot off the griddle with the dip, or take the chicken and peppers off the skewers, leave to cool and pack into wholemeal wraps spread with a little tzatziki and rolled up with baby spinach and a few picked leaves of parsley.

EASY CHICKEN SKEWERS

Steps:

• Mix water, barbecue sauce, peanut butter, soy sauce, cilantro and mustard in medium bowl with wire whisk. Refrigerate half of the mixture to use as a dipping sauce. Pour remaining mixture into large resealable plastic bag. Add chicken; seal bag. Shake gently to coat chicken. Refrigerate 1 to 2 hours to marinate.
• Preheat grill to medium-high heat. Thread chicken onto 12 skewers in ribbon fashion; discard any remaining marinade in bag.
• Grill 5 to 7 min. or until chicken is cooked through. Serve with the reserved dipping sauce.