How I like skewers when it comes to gathering friends or family at home for a casual dinner. Now that autumn is approaching, they seem like a great alternative combined with a salad and some spreads, don't you? And these marinated chicken, pepper and pancetta skewers are especially tasty.
Easy to prepare, easy to cook on the grill and very tasty, these are these skewers that I propose to you today. You will need a little planning, yes, since for it to have even more flavor the chicken must be marinating for at least four hours.
You can prepare the chicken in the morning or if it is more comfortable the day before. After, Assembling the skewers will be a breeze and cooking them will be a last minute thing, since the best these skewers are is freshly made. Will you dare to prepare them? By following the following step by step you will have no problems doing it.
The recipe
- 2 chicken breasts
- 1 small onion
- 1 teaspoon thyme
- 1 teaspoon paprika sweet
- 1 teaspoon of salt
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 2 green peppers
- 1 red pepper
- 2 slices of bacon
- Some cherry tomatoes
- We chop the breasts diced chicken.
- We peel the onion and we grate or chop it finely, placing it in a large bowl or tupperware.
- Now, we add the thyme to the same bowl, the sweet paprika, the salt and the oil and mix well.
- We add the diced chicken and we mix again so that the meat is impregnated with the marinade.
- Then we cover and we reserve in the fridge a minimum of four hours.
- Once the meat is marinated We prepare the rest of the ingredients, cutting both the pepper and the bacon into cubes the same size as the chicken.
- Now, we slightly moisten the sticks skewer and we assemble these. To do this we place a piece of chicken, followed by one of bacon, one of green pepper and another of bacon. And we will repeat this three times, alternating red and green pepper and finishing the skewer with a piece of chicken and a cherry.
- In conclusion, we cook the skewers on the griddle, browning them well.
- We serve the skewers of marinated chicken, pepper and bacon with a little couscous or quinoa.