Thursday, July 28, 2011

Chicken Bacon Brochettes, Baby!

I had fresh chicken, I had some bacon (no babies though) - and we needed dinner.  I've made this before and renditions of it, and it's always good.  Generally in life when you add bacon, you can't go wrong.  Here it is:

CHICKEN BACON BROCHETTES


INGREDIENTS:

A fine summer supper!
1 LB of boneless skinless chicken breast
1 TBSP of olive oil
1 TBSP worcestershire sauce
1 TBSP of soya sauce
dash of white wine vinegar
2 garlic cloves pressed
Few grinds of fresh black pepper

4 slices of bacon cut into 3

8 medium to large mushrooms (large is still normal sized, I'm not talking portabella's here!)
4 large pieces of red pepper
1 green onion, cut in 8 pieces (use the whites as well)
Juice of 1/4 lemon
2t olive oil
salt and pepper


METHOD:

Assembled and ready to grill

Fine serrated sharp knife for the bacon
- Cube chicken to make twelve 1-1/2-inch (4 cm) pieces (you can make smaller pieces if you wish).
- Combine the oil, worcestershire, soya, garlic, wine vinegar, and pepper in a bowl, add the chicken and marinate for 20 minutes.
- Wash up! Then combine the mushrooms, onions, red pepper, oil, lemon juice, salt and pepper.  Marinate for 20 minutes.
- Preheat the BBQ to medium high heat
- Cut the bacon with a really really sharp knife, I find fine serrated to be the best for this.
-  Reserve the marinade - Wrap each chicken cube in a piece of bacon and thread onto metal skewers (if you don't have metal, make sure you soaked some wooden ones for at least 20 min...I find metal works best because the wood ones often break).  Alternate the chicken with onion and mushroom/peppers.
- Place your skewers on the BBQ, close the lid and cook for 5 minutes, brush with  marinate and cook 5-7 minutes more (or until they're done, I mean, it depends on the size of the chicken cubes, right?)


Serve!  Goes great with coleslaw and corn on the cob, or your favourite summer salads.

Cooks notes:  Wine vinegar is a good sub for lemon juice, even balsamic is good too!  Also, marinate the meat for longer if time permits.  I did 20 min and it's good but it's always better if there's more time :)

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