Tangerine Chicken Skewers:
We’ve always been fans of food on a stick. 🙂 Our friends who grew up with us know that we love popsicles, freezing bananas on a stick (and we love to share recipes! Have you seen our PB & Bananaberry frozen pops, or our Blueberry Banana Boats or these Baked Chicken Skewers?) and we’d rather eat grilled veggies and chicken or fish at a barbeque that spent its’ time getting grilled on a stick. There’s something about skewers that make life so simple–maybe that’s why we love them! Little time, big taste! To spice things up we’ve added some tangerine slices to a traditional chicken skewer and coated it with savory paprika rub. We just love this recipe because the combination of citrus and spice that creates such a mouthwatering flavor!
Tangerine Chicken Skewers:
Serves 8; Serving Size 1 skewer
Ingredients:
8 wooden skewers
1 T. olive oil
1 T. paprika
1 t. light brown sugar
½ t. salt
½ t. black pepper
8 chicken breast, tenders (8 ounces)
4 small tangerines
1 large onion
Directions:
- Turn on broiler to start heating and soak wooden skewers in hot water.
- Rinse chicken and cut it into 1 inch cubes
- Peel tangerines and separate tangerine slices.
- Chop onion into ½-inch chunks.
- Take the wooden skewers out of the water and place them on a paper towel.
- Alternate placing a chicken chunk, orange slice, and onion chunk on to the wooden skewer. Leave about an inch of space on each end of the skewer.
- In a small mixing bowl, whisk together oil, paprika, sugar, salt and pepper. Pour mixture into spray bottle. (As an alternative you can use a pastry brush to brush this over the skewers but then you may want to add an extra teaspoon or two of oil—remember this will change the nutrition information.)
- Place skewers on a broiling pan if cooking in the oven. If using a grill, place on a dish.
- Spritz all sides of each skewer with the oil and spice mixture. (Alternative 🙂 Using a pastry brush, brush the oil mixture on to the skewers so that it coats all side of the skewer.)
- Place the pan in the oven or place the skewers on the grill and allow the skewers to broil for 3-4 minutes. Take the pan out and flip the skewers and then place them back in the oven for 3-4 more minutes until the chicken is fully cooked through on the inside.
- Take pan out of the oven or skewers off the grill and enjoy.
Nutrition Facts (per serving): 120 Calories, 6g Fat, 1g Saturated Fat, 12g Carbohydrate, Protein 5g, 2g Fiber, 274mg Sodium, 11mg Cholesterol
- 8 wooden skewers
- 1 T. olive oil
- 1 T. paprika
- 1 t. light brown sugar
- ½ t. salt
- ½ t. black pepper
- 8 chicken breast, tenders (8 ounces)
- 4 small tangerines
- 1 large onion
- Turn on broiler to start heating and soak wooden skewers in hot water.
- Rinse chicken and cut it into 1 inch cubes
- Peel tangerines and separate tangerine slices.
- Chop onion into ½-inch chunks.
- Take the wooden skewers out of the water and place them on a paper towel.
- Alternate placing a chicken chunk, orange slice, and onion chunk on to the wooden skewer. Leave about an inch of space on each end of the skewer.
- In a small mixing bowl, whisk together oil, paprika, sugar, salt and pepper. Pour mixture into spray bottle. (As an alternative you can use a pastry brush to brush this over the skewers but then you may want to add an extra teaspoon or two of oil—remember this will change the nutrition information.)
- Place skewers on a broiling pan.
- Spritz all sides of each skewer with the oil and spice mixture. (Alternative☺ Using a pastry brush, brush the oil mixture on to the skewers so that it coats all side of the skewer.)
- Place the pan in the oven and allow the skewers to broil for 3-4 minutes. Take the pan out and flip the skewers and then place them back in the oven for 3-4 more minutes until the chicken is fully cooked through on the inside. The skewers should be slightly charred.
- Take pan out of the oven and enjoy.