Recipe: Chicken Skewers with Couscous Salad
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Recipe type: Barbecue
Cuisine: North African
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Serves: 4
 
Ingredients
Chicken Skewers
  • 500g boneless chicken breasts, sliced into cubes
  • ¼ cup soy sauce
  • 4 tsp sesame oil
  • 2 tbsp honey
  • 1 ½ tsp fresh ground ginger
  • 2 cloves garlic, crushed
  • A pinch of black pepper
  • 1 small deseeded, thinly sliced red chilli
  • 1 shallot, finely diced
  • Wooden skewers
Couscous salad
  • ½ cup chicken stock, brought to the boil
  • ½ cup couscous
  • ¼ red onion finely diced
  • ¼ tsp minced garlic
  • ¼ tsp ground ginger
  • 1 tbsp olive oil
  • ½ tbsp soy sauce
  • 1 generous squeeze of lemon juice
  • 1 x generous handful of flat leaf parsley, finely chopped
  • ½ tsp fresh ground chilli
Instructions
Couscous salad
  1. Bring stock to the boil in a saucepan over the grill of your barbecue
  2. In a separate bowl combine stock and couscous, cover and stand for 5 minutes. Add a dash of oil and separate grains using a fork
  3. Add remaining ingredients, combine well
Chicken Skewers
  1. Combine ingredients in a plastic bag, allow to marinate for 4 hours
  2. Soak skewers in water for 30 minutes prior to use, this will stop them from catching alight when cooked
  3. Thread chicken onto skewers
  4. Preheat barbecue
  5. Oil hot plate
  6. Cook skewers until golden and crisp on each side (approximately 6 minutes each side). Continue to baste with marinade
  7. Serve immediately alongside a generous helping of couscous salad! Finish off with fresh chopped parsley
Recipe by Places We Go at https://placeswego.com/recipe-chicken-skewers-with-couscous-salad/