When you hear the expression “kebab of chicken breast”, you immediately imagine the tender and toasted pieces of meat. Cooking them is easy enough, but in the end you get an attractive-looking dish.

Classic Chicken Breast Kebab Recipe

The delicacy is known to Russian people from the last century. Even in the Soviet Union, it was inaccessible to ordinary citizens, it was considered the privilege of trade and administrative workers. A classic recipe for making delicious barbecue has been preserved since those times. For him, take broiler chicken breasts and soak in a special marinade. The meat must be chilled, in no case should you take frozen birds. Only with these recommendations, you will get a soft and juicy skewers of chicken.

First of all, choose a container for the preparation of marinade. It can be made of glass or ceramic. Some housewives use enameled dishes. A container of wood, plastic and aluminum should not be taken.
For cooking you will need:

  • 1.5 kg of breasts;
  • 4 tbsp. tablespoons 9% vinegar;
  • 9 tbsp. tablespoons of purified water;
  • 2-3 medium sized onions;
  • 1 tbsp. a spoon of granulated sugar;
  • Extra salt and ground black pepper to taste.

Compliance with the proportions of vinegar and water ensures that the hostess will get juicy and soft meat.

 

Step-by-step instruction:

  1. In a deep bowl, prepare the marinade: mix water, sand and salt, then add vinegar and pepper, mix everything thoroughly and leave for half an hour.
  2. At this time, wash the chicken breasts with running water and dry with a towel.
  3. Cut them into small pieces.
  4. Cut the onions into rings.
  5. Put the meat and onions in a dish with marinade, mix thoroughly again. Place the container in a cold place for 1 - 1.5 hours.
  6. After an hour, the meat is ready to fry.

Ready meals can be served with fresh vegetables. Such a light side dish will help to quickly absorb meat food.

In mayonnaise

You can marinate chicken breast for barbecue in mayonnaise. Of course, it is better to cook mayonnaise sauce yourself from fresh products. But if the hostess does not have the opportunity or time for this, then a store product will do.

The kebab cooking algorithm is almost the same as in the classic recipe. Only instead of water, they take such an amount of mayonnaise to immerse all cooked chicken pieces into it.

Pickled meat is mounted on a skewer along with onion rings and fried on the grill until golden brown. Fresh vegetables and herbs will be a great addition to kebab.

In the soy sauce in the oven

When the weather is bad, but you want something tasty, you can cook chicken skewers in the oven. The recipe for this treat is also quite simple.

The hostess will need:

  • a pound of chicken breasts;
  • 1.5 tbsp. tablespoons of olive oil;
  • 1.5 tbsp. tablespoons of soy sauce;
  • 1.5 tbsp. a spoon of granulated sugar;
  • 1.5 tbsp. a spoonful of dry coriander;
  • 3 small cloves of garlic;
  • a pinch of ground black pepper;
  • Extra salt to taste.

First mix the ingredients for the marinade. After adding each component, the marinade is mixed well. Olive oil, soy sauce are poured into the dishes, sugar, ground coriander, pepper, salt are put. At the end, add garlic, passed through a garlic squeezer.

While the marinade is infused, they are engaged in meat.

  1. Breast cut in half and beat off.
  2. Fillet cut into long strips.
  3. The meat is transferred to a container with marinade and kept in it for 50 minutes.
  4. After the set time has elapsed, the chicken strips are strung on skewers. So that the skewers are not charred, they are kept in cold water for 30 minutes until pieces of meat are marinated.
  5. The meat on skewers is laid out in a form covered with foil and baked in the oven for about 20-30 minutes.

On a plate for meat of golden color put a vegetable side dish of eggplant, zucchini, mushrooms and sweet pepper.

Cooking on skewers

Chicken marinated with soy sauce and skewered can be fried in a deep thick-bottomed pan.

 

To prepare the dish you will need:

  • a pound of chicken breasts;
  • 1.5 tbsp. tablespoons of olive oil;
  • 5 tbsp. tablespoons of soy sauce;
  • 1.5 tbsp. tablespoons of lemon juice;
  • 1.5 tbsp. tablespoons of granulated sugar;
  • 1.5 tbsp. tablespoons of dry coriander;
  • 3 small cloves of garlic;
  • a pinch of ground black pepper;
  • 1 tbsp. a spoonful of refined vegetable oil;
  • Extra salt and to taste.

Initially, the meat is fried in vegetable oil over medium heat on both sides. Then cover the pan with a lid and fry until cooked over low heat.

Such a barbecue will be instantly eaten with a traditional side dish - mashed potatoes, buckwheat or boiled rice.

Delicious yogurt based marinade for PP

For chicken breast skewers, marinade is prepared not only from mayonnaise, but also from yogurt. From the finished meat comes the aroma that is impossible to resist.

For marinade store:

  • 1 tbsp. nonfat yogurt;
  • 1 tbsp. a spoon of olive oil;
  • 3 large cloves of garlic;
  • 1 fresh lemon;
  • 0.5 teaspoon of salt;
  • ground pepper;
  • a bunch of parsley.

Mix yogurt, oil, chopped garlic, salt, pepper, lemon zest and 1-2 tbsp. tablespoons of freshly squeezed lemon juice. At the end, add chopped parsley. Pieces of meat are laid in such a marinade. After 40-50 minutes, they are fried on a wire rack.

Each of the above options is good in its own way. In order for the hostess to choose the best, she will have to cook meat according to all recipes. Only then can one decide and understand which one to give preference to.

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