Chicken skewers on skewers: cooking in the oven

2024 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:14

Kebabs can be made not only outdoors on the grill, but also at home in the oven - for example, mini chicken skewers on skewers. Usually breast is taken for such a dish, but you can also use meaty legs (thighs), as well as wings, drumsticks, hearts and liver.

There can be many options for cooking chicken skewers on skewers - it all depends not only on the part of the carcass, but also on additional ingredients.

Poultry is considered to be less demanding on marinades than beef and pork, so a variety of ingredients can be used for it.

And now a few recipes for chicken skewers on skewers with a photo.

Classic

This is a fairly simple recipe with a traditional set of ingredients, including:

• 500g breast fillet;
• one onion (large);
• lemon juice;
• half teaspoon dried garlic;
• ground pepper;
• s alt.

What to do:

1. Remove unnecessary elements from chicken pieces: fat, films. Cut the fillet into small pieces.
2. Make the marinade with a blender using a little lemon juice, s alt, onion, pepper and garlic. The result should be a homogeneous mass.
3. Place the pieces of the future kebab in the marinade and mix well so that they are covered on all sides.
4. Remove the chicken to marinate in the refrigerator for 12 hours.
5. Preheat the oven to a temperature of 200 degrees, cover a baking sheet with baking paper.
6. Take the marinated pieces out of the fridge, thread them onto wooden or metal skewers and place on baking paper on a baking sheet.
7. Bake for about 20 minutes, remembering to turn them occasionally to brown them evenly.

Serve hot chicken skewers with potatoes or vegetable salad.

With vegetables

This kebab has many advantages - it does not need a side dish, any vegetables will do, the finished dish looks very appetizing. For this recipe, the ingredients you need are:

• kg fillet (breast, thigh or mixed);
• two large onions;
• bell pepper;
• cherry;
• carrot;
• eggplant;
• zucchini;
• chicken seasoning;
• pepper;
• s alt.

Whatdo:

1. Cut the fillet into small pieces, sprinkle with s alt and pepper, add chicken seasoning and onion, cut into rings, and mix gently. Refrigerate for a few hours.
2. Wash and cut the vegetables in such a way that it is convenient to string them on skewers interspersed with chicken.
3. Take the fillets out of the fridge and thread them onto skewers, alternating with pieces of vegetables.
4. Lay foil on a baking sheet, lay out the skewers and put in an oven preheated to 180 degrees for about half an hour or a little more.

For baby

The so-called children's chicken skewers on skewers are prepared without the use of hot and spicy ingredients.

For 0.5 kg of chicken fillet you will need:

• four tablespoons of olive oil;
• two small onions;
• two teaspoons of lemon juice;
• four tablespoons of sour cream;
• s alt.

What to do:

• Cut the fillet into pieces and marinate in a mixture of sour cream, butter, lemon juice, chopped onion and s alt. Place the marinated chicken in the refrigerator overnight.
• Thread the pieces on skewers.
• Fry chicken skewers on skewers in a grill pan until golden brown, but not fully cooked.
• Transfer the blanks to the foil and wrap. Send to bake in a preheated oven for half an hour at a temperature of 180 degrees.

Let the skewers cool slightly before serving. Adults can eat this children's dish with anyhot sauce.

With pineapples

Chicken meat is in harmony with pineapples and it can be used in kebabs. Meat and pieces of fruit are strung on skewers.

The products for this dish are as follows:

• big chicken breast;
• canned pineapple rings in syrup;
• half a cup of tomato sauce or thick tomato juice;
• half a cup of soy sauce.

What to do:

1. Pineapple rings cut into pieces.
2. Chicken breast in thin long strips.
3. Mix soy sauce with tomato juice and pour over the meat, send to marinate in the refrigerator overnight.
4. String chicken strips on skewers with a snake, adding a piece of pineapple at each turn.
5. Put the blanks on a sheet of foil, laid on a baking sheet, and put in the oven for half an hour. The temperature for baking kebabs is 200 degrees.

The dish is recommended to prepare for the festive table.

From legs with mayonnaise

For such a kebab you will need the following products:

• six legs;
• three cloves of garlic;
• two onions;
• a glass of mayonnaise;
• ground black pepper;
• s alt.

How to:

1. Remove the skin from the legs and free the meat from the bones.
2. Cut the chicken into large pieces.
3. Chop the garlic finely, cut the onion into rings, add s alt, pepper and mayonnaise. Marinate inthe resulting mixture of legs and leave for 4 hours.
4. Prepare the wooden skewers and place them on the meat pieces, alternating them with the onion rings.
5. Spread the skewers in the oven on the wire rack. Cook for 15 minutes on each side at 200 degrees.

Serve the dish with baked potatoes.

Tips

Chicken breast pieces must be marinated before baking. So that the meat does not turn out to be overdried, you need to cut into pieces 2x2 cm in size, not smaller.

The best ingredients for marinade for chicken skewers are onion, kefir, spices.

To keep the meat juicy, it must be cut across the grain.

Wooden skewers should be soaked in water for half an hour before use.

Baking chicken skewers on skewers in the oven can take place both in the usual way and in the "grill" mode. In the first case, the cooking temperature should be 200 degrees, time - 30 minutes. On the grill, the dish will be ready in ten minutes.

You can place kebabs on the grill, under which there is a baking sheet. This will cook the meat more evenly.