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Japanese Marinated Chicken Skewers

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This great recipes comes from our Japanese friend Mayuko. She made this marinating sauce once, with chiken drumsticks and thighs, for a BBQ, they were awesome! So we tried to replicate it for a home use with chicken breast, but you can use the same sauce for legs and thighs.

Japanese Marinated Chiken Skewers - International Cooking Blog

Ingredients

- 1 chicken breast (or 2-3 chicken tights)

- vegetables you like: 2 red pepers/1 zucchini/1 onion

- wood sticks

 

Marinating sauce

- 3 tbs of peanuts

- Half a bunch of green onion

- 1 garlic clove

- 1 teaspoon of salt

- 3 teasoons of sesame oil

 

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First make the marinating sauce: In a food processor mix: the peanuts, the green onions (choppend), 1 smashed garlic clove,

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3 teaspoons of sesami oil and a pinch of salt. Blend until you get a smooth cream.

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Cut the chicken in small pieces (3x3cm), add the marinating sauce and mix.

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Cover it and let it rest in the refrigerator overnight. If you are in a rush you can leave it even a couple of hours and it will be fine.

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Before to make the skewers, clean and cut the vegetables you chose. We used red bell peppers. On each wood stick alternate a pice of pepper with a picese of chicken.

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Warm up a grill pan and place the skewers to cook. You need to turn them frequently to not burn them.

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Cook them until the chicken is cooked (more or less for 15 minutes). Serve warm.

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