Thai Chicken Skewers in 15 minutes

Thai Chicken Skewers Recipe in 15 minutes or less.

Busy weekday cooking has got to be easy simple and quick. These Thai chicken skewers will bring dinner on the table in 15 minutes. The skewers take less then 10 minutes to prepare and cook. You can serve these over rice, a bowl of noodle or in a wrap with your favorite salad.

 

If there is one think we love in our family is skewers!! Who doesn’t love chicken on a stick, right? Grilling meat on a skewer in summer here is very common and very middle eastern.  We have restaurants in Israel that specialize in just skewers because it’s so popular.

When Aadi was small if he wanted skewers he’d say mama make lollipop chicken. He still loves skewers and he’s absolute favorite is Indian Chicken Tikka and Rhea’s absolute favorite is Terriyaki Chicken. Ziv’s absolute favorite is Chicken Skewers Morrocon Style  and Satay Chicken.  But in general as long as we have meat on a stick we are happy people.

 Dinner in 15 minutes or less.

Don’t these look yummy? Who would’t want a dinner like this especially if you can make it in 15 minutes or less?

I usually serve them with rice or some times a bowl of sauteed egg noodles. The kids love some rice with it so most often we make rice. Rice usually will get done in 15 minutes and Noodles usually cook in less than 5 minutes. I saute the noodle with some garlic and ginger slice and cilantro. That’s it!

Super Simple Easy and Quick in just three easy steps.

If you see in the video – you will see that I do this in three easy steps.

1. Add all the ingredient in a bowl and add the chicken
2. Put the chicken on the skewers and
3. onto the grill. Done!

Can you think of anything more easy?

Lets talk about some of the unique ingredients in this recipe

• Thai curry paste –This is the thing that makes it possible to get the Thai flavor instantly and effortlessly. So this is not to be omitted. Now in the video I am using green curry paste but I often use red curry paste too. The only difference is a little flavor variation and color of course. But they are both absolutely delicious Thai bases here.
• Sesame Oil – add a nice smoky and Asian flavor to the dish but if you don’t have you can omit it. it has a long shelf life so if you do venture into Asian cooking some times, sesame oil is a good flavor to have at home.
• Soy sauce  – I like to use the light low sodium soya sauce but if you use the regular which has salt added you may want to reduce the quantity of salt in the dish.

Here you see. I am using red curry paste while in the video I’m using green. They both work fabulously.

The best part about this recipe is left overs for chicken wraps.

One of our favorite things about this dish, and often the reason I make extra so we have left overs. Is that we can make chicken wraps. These make amazing chicken wraps. I usually have flour tortilla / Indian chapati in the freeze for kids snacks. So all I do is add some veggies, some chicken often the dressing simple olive oil and lemon juice or even avocado/ yogurt and you done. Kids love it.

Recipe – Thai chicken skewers in 15 minutes

Tools

Bowl
Grill pan
Kitchen tongs

Ingredients

• Chicken thighs Boneless – 500 grams (1 lbs)
• Skewers soaked in water for 30 mins

Marinade Ingredients

• Soy Sauce – 2 tbsp
• Sesame oil – 1 tsp
• Thai red or green curry paste – 2 tbsp
• Canola Oil – 1 tbsp
• Salt and pepper to taste.
• Brown sugar – 1/4 tsp
• Garlic grated  -1 tbsp
• Ginger grated – 1 tbsp

Method: 

• Mix all the marinade ingredients in a bowl. Give it a good stir.
• Wash, cut the chicken into long strips so you can skewer them
• Pat them dry (or the marinade won’t stick to them)
• Add the chicken pieces to the marinade.
• Time permitting – you can do this ahead of time and keep this chicken marinated  in the fridge (for as long as over night)
• Skewer the chicken
• Place skewers on a hot grills –
• Cook until cooked and blistered on all sides – approximately 5 to 6 minutes
• Serve with seamed rice or in tortilla / Chapati wraps.

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Recipe card – Thai Chicken Skewers in 15 minutes

And here is it..! Dinner in 15 minutes or less.