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Chicken on a stick

  • Hands-on time: 15 mins
  • Time to make: 35 mins
  • Serving: 6 people
Ratings: 4.5
Ingredients

Ingredients

  • 12 kebab skewers
  • 1 courgette, washed
  • 1 onion
  • 2 capsicums, washed
  • 12 mushrooms
  • 2 smoked chicken breasts (300g each)
  • 12 cubes fresh pineapple
  • Always check food labels for allergens or trace warnings before buying your ingredients.
    Ingredients

    Instructions

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    1 Preheat oven to 180ºC.

    2 If you are using wooden skewers, you need to soak them in water so they don’t burn. To do this, fill a bowl or sink with cold water and soak skewers for at least 15 minutes.

    3 To prepare vegetables, cut courgette in 6 thick slices. Peel and chop onion in large chunks. Remove capsicum seeds then chop flesh in squares. Brush dirt off mushrooms.

    4 Remove chicken from packaging and take off skin. Cut chicken in chunks.

    5 Thread ingredients onto skewers: 2 mushrooms, 2 pineapple chunks and 1 courgette slice on each stick, alternating with chicken, onion and capsicum – or any order you fancy.

    6 Place baking paper on a baking tray and arrange skewers on top. Place in oven. Cook for 20 minutes. Use oven mitts to remove tray from oven. Serve with lots of colourful veges or a big salad.

    Variations

    • Squeeze half a lemon over the kebabs before baking for a tangy taste.
    • Spoon 1 cup (250ml) low-fat plain yoghurt over kebabs before baking for a completely new dish!
    • Other vegetables that work well on the stick: thick slices of eggplant, sugar-snap peas, cauliflower and broccoli florets (that's the tight, branched clusters of flower buds that together form a head of cauliflower or broccoli), thin celery slices, leek slices (the white bit), Brussels sprouts. 

    HFG tip

    • Smoked chicken has plenty of salt, so there's no need to add more.
    • Smoked chicken is already 'cooked', so you don't need to worry about cooking it through.
    • WARNING! Vegetables that don't work so well: carrot chunks (too hard for the stick to pierce), pumpkin chunks (it takes too long to cook) and fresh beetroot slices (the juice stains everything). Instead of baking kebabs, try grilling at 200ºC for 4-7 minutes on both sides – but take care not to burn the meal.

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