Chicken Skewers
These spiced grilled chicken skewers are juicy, golden, and bursting with bold flavour. Marinated in lemon, ginger, garlic, turmeric, cumin, coriander, gluten-free soy and fish sauce, every bite is tender, zesty, and totally crave-worthy. Serve with our tahini, lemon and parsley sauce or our creamy yogurt mayonnaise.
Nutritional Profile
Wholesome Human Hero Ingredient: Spices
At Wholesome Human, we love using spices—not just for flavour, but for their powerful health benefits. Many spices can help balance blood sugar, support heart health, aid digestion, reduce inflammation, and nourish gut health, thanks to their antibacterial and antioxidant properties.
While they don’t cure disease, research shows spices like turmeric, ginger, and cumin may help ease symptoms and may reduce stress-related damage in the body, lowering risk factors for chronic conditions like heart disease and cancer.
Ingredients
Skewers
- 900 g chicken thighs, cut into 2.5cm cubes, fat trimmed
- 10-12 bamboo skewers, soaked in water for 15 minutes prior to threading
Marinade
- 2 tbsp lemon juice
- 1 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
- 3 tbsp tamari
- 3 tbsp fish sauce
- ½ tsp garlic powder
- 1 tsp ground ginger
- ½ tsp turmeric powder
- ½ tsp ground coriander
- ½ tsp ground cumin
- fresh coriander to serve, optional
Instructions
- COMBINE all the marinade ingredients in a large bowl and mix until well combined.
- MIX chicken in the marinade to coat well. Marinate for 15 minutes.
- PREHEAT a barbecue, grill plate to medium or oven griller. If using an oven griller, line a baking tray with a silicon mat.
- THREAD chicken onto the skewers.
- GRILL and turn halfway through cooking until cooked through.
- SERVE SUGGESTION: Place skewers on top of shredded lettuce, top with diced avocado, cucumber slices, fresh coriander and a generous serving of Tahini Sauce or Yoghurt Mayonnaise.
- Delicious alongside steamed greens and cauliflower rice or a veggie mash.
- Just as delicious served cold and unthreaded, tossed in a summer green salad with fresh mint, coriander and avocado.
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Health Benefits:
- Heart Health
- Hormone Balancing
- Stress Busting
- Muscle Building
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