In my eternal search for Easy, Healthy Dinners You’ll Actually Make & Eat, I happened across this precious little peach. Bacon-wrapped anything is divine, but bacon-wrapping ingredients everyone already loves is even better.
Plus, aren’t you always hunting down new and improved ways to cook yet-another-chicken-breast? Me too. After all, the meat is cheap, low-cal, and accessible. And yet. I buy a package of chicken from the grocery store and feel utterly stumped with what to do with it.
There’s always the slathering of barbecue sauce. There’s sauteeing. And the stirfrying. And, oftimes, I’ll think to skewer the chicken for a Thai Peanut somethingorother. Because the idea of skewering is always fun until it’s not. And it’s not fun being elbows up to nasty in chicken goo, while you thread tender niblets onto a wooden peg.
I don’t have any answers to making chicken-skewering less slobbery. But, I do have this quick-simple-tasty yum yum recipe that’s so good, it’s worth breaking out the bamboo and sticking it up.
While you prep the chicken, you microwave potatoes until tender. Then thread everything together, winding the bacon around your skewer and tucking it between the morsels.
If you’re looking for an easy make-ahead dindin tonight, this recipe has gotchya covered.
And, if you have a secret that keeps chicken-skewering from become the gooey-gross activity it tends to be, chime in below! I’d love to hear how you prep shishkabobs while keeping your kitchen (and hands) goo free!
BACON-WRAPPED CHICKEN & POTATO SHISKABOBS
INGREDIENTS:
8 small red potatoes
4 chicken breasts, diced
8 slices bacon
8 bamboo skewers
3 tablespoons honey (optional)
1/2 teaspoon chopped garlic
salt and pepper
DIRECTIONS:
1. Microwave potatoes just until tender, about 9-12 minutes.
2. Cut potatoes into large chunks.
3. Thread potatoes and chicken onto skewers.
4. Wrap with bacon. Salt and pepper.
5. Brush with melted honey & chopped garlic. (optional)
5. Bake at 350 degrees for 15-20 minutes.
6. Serve and enjoy!