Grilled chicken skewers
Boneless strips of chicken thighs marinated in a walnut and yogurt marinade and grilled along with peppers and onions. Great to have wrapped in flatbreads or even on its own.
Ingredients
- 1 kg skinless and boneless chicken thighs, cut into strips
- 2 tsp salt
- 36 gms fresh coriander
- 1 cup walnuts
- ½ cup Greek yogurt
- 2 tsp ginger-garlic paste
- juice of 1 lemon
- 3 onions, chopped
- 2-3 large peppers, chopped
- 1 tbsp oil
- lemon slices to serve
Yogurt dressing
- 1 cup Greek yogurt
- a little chilli powder and cumin powder
- salt to taste
To make wraps
- 12 large flatbreads (I used large home made Indian rotis made with just whole wheat flour and water)
Others
- 12 metal or wooden skewers. If using wooden skewers, soak them in water for a few minutes before using.
Instructions
- Rub the chicken strips with salt.
- Grind together the walnuts, yogurt, coriander, lemon juice and ginger-garlic paste into a slightly coarse mixture.
- Add the walnut-yogurt mixture to the chicken and mix well.
- Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and leave in the fridge for 6-8 hours or overnight.
- Skewer the chicken, pepper and onion pieces. I folded each chicken strip in half and then added them to the skewer. Alternate the chicken with pepper and onion pieces.
- Heat a grill pan and brush the tablespoon of oil.
- When the pan and oil is hot, add a few of the chicken, pepper and onion skewers to the pan.
- Cook over high heat for a minute each on the top and bottom sides and 30 seconds each on the other two sides.
- Reduce the heat (keep between low and medium) and cook for about 10-15 minutes or till the chicken is done.
- Prick the chicken pieces in between cooking. Also. during cooking, brush the chicken with the juices released.
- Remove the chicken skewers to a plate and repeat the above for all the rest of the chicken. You do not need to add any extra oil.
- Mix together the ingredients for the yogurt dip
- Place a grilled chicken skewer in the middle of a flatbread.
- Drizzle a little yogurt and squeeze some lemon. Pull out the skewer, roll the flatbread and enjoy. Wrap the rolls in foil for ease of eating.
Video
Notes
The time given to cook the chicken (15 minutes) is not the total cooking time for all the skewers but for each batch