Chicken Kabobs
Chicken on a stick, done fast — garlic parmesan skewers, bang bang, sticky brown sugar, teriyaki kabobs — for grill nights and easy weeknight dinners.
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dinnerGarlic Parmesan Chicken Skewers
Crispy & juicy airfyer recipe with tonsss of flavor !
Britt CallowayIngredients
- 2 lbs Chicken tenders
- 2 tbsp Olive Oil
- 1 stick Butter
- 8 cloves Garlic
- 1/2 cup Grated Parmesan
- 1 tbsp Hot Sauce
- 2 tsp Red pepper flakes
- 1/3 cup Fresh Parsley
- 1 tbsp Dry ranch seasoning
- 1 tsp Dried dill
- 1/2 tsp Onion powder
- 1/2 tbsp Dry ranch seasoning
- 1 tsp Dried dill
- 2 tsp Paprika
- 1 tsp Garlic powder
- 1 tsp Onion powder
- 1/2 tsp Salt
- 1/2 tsp Pepper
Instructions
- 1**Soak wooden skewers in water for about 30 mins before you start!
- 2Combine chicken seasoning mixture in a small bowl and set aside. Prep chicken by cutting in 3" pieces. Place them in a large bowl or ziptop bag and toss in olive oil and the spices, coating well on all sides.
- 3Place chicken onto each skewer, tightly packed with no space in between to ensure maximum juiciness. For smaller air fryers , snip the top few inches of the skewers to fit after the chicken is skewered.
- 4Melt the butter and garlic together in the microwave. Then add in red pepper flakes, hot sauce, seasonings and parmesan. Whisk together until combined.
- 5Scoop out 1/3 of the sauce and use that for basting the par-cooked chicken. Reserve the remaining sauce for basting the cooked chicken so you don't cross contaminate.
- 6Cook 2-3 skewers at a time. Place in an air fryer and cook at 400 degrees for 5 minutes. Remove and flip the skewers, baste with sauce, return to cook an additional 2 minutes at 400 degrees.
- 7Flip them back, baste with more sauce and cook another 5-6 minutes or until the internal temp reaches 165 degrees. Total cook time of 12-14 minutes. This time will vary based on your air fryer.
- 8Once they are finished cooking, hit them with a final pass of the garlic sauce and sprinkle with some extra parmesan and serve. (Reheat the butter sauce throughout process if it solidifies)
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Open in Pepper →Chicken Tastes Better On A Stick
Cut chicken into cubes and it cooks in ten minutes instead of thirty, picks up marinade on every side, and comes off the grill with those browned edges everybody fights over. It also makes dinner feel like a little bit of an occasion without a bit of extra work.
Cooks on Pepper reach for these on hot evenings when nobody wants the oven on, when the kids want to help thread the skewers, and when there's a package of chicken tenders in the fridge and forty minutes till supper.
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Quick Tips
- 1
Soak wooden skewers first
Cover them in water for at least 30 minutes before threading so they don't scorch on the grill or in the air fryer.
- 2
Cut even one-inch cubes
Uniform 1-inch pieces finish cooking at the same time, usually 10 to 12 minutes total with a turn halfway through.
- 3
Save some sauce back
Set aside a few tablespoons of the brown sugar or honey garlic sauce before it touches raw chicken, then brush it on at the end.
- 4
Don't crowd the skewer
Leave a little gap between pieces so heat gets all the way around; pack them tight and the middles steam instead of browning.
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