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Japanese-Style Chicken Heart Skewers
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Japanese-Style Chicken Heart Skewers

Juicy chicken heart skewers marinated in soy sauce and sesame oil

⏱ 50 min🍽 4 servings 🌍 Middle Eastern👩‍🍳 Afoona
🥩 Meat
Versions:Original🌾 Gluten-free

👨‍🍳 Method

  1. 1
    Rinse the chicken and pat dry thoroughly with paper towels.
    Paper towels
  2. 2
    In a bowl, mix the honey, soy sauce, garlic, sesame oil, ginger, salt and black pepper and coat the chicken in the mixture.
    Bowl
  3. 3
    Cover and marinate in the fridge at least 30 minutes.
    Refrigerator
  4. 4
    Soak the wooden skewers in water while the chicken marinates.
    ⚙ SoakingBowlSkewers
  5. 5
    Thread the hearts onto the skewers.
    Skewers
  6. 6
    Heat a grill pan over high heat and grease with a thin layer of oil.
    ⚙ Greased Flat PanStoveGrill pan
    💡A very thin layer of fat, with the excess wiped off with paper towel: too much fat gives spots and fried edges.
  7. 7
    Grill the skewers 3–4 minutes per side, until the hearts are roasted and caramelized.
    Stove
  8. 8
    Sprinkle the scallions over the chicken.
268calories
28 gprotein
5 gcarbs
14 gfat
● protein 43%● carbs 8%● fat 49%

Per serving (166 g), of 4 servings

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⚖ About the ingredients

🔧 Tools needed (5) · 🍳 One cooking vessel

  • Refrigerator · Also works: Freezer (Chills faster; don't let it freeze) · Ice bath (Ice bath)
  • Stove · 💡 Workaround, changes the dish: Portable hot plate (one weaker burner) · Camping gas stove (One burner, outdoors) · Electric pressure cooker (multicooker) (One pot, no real shallow frying)
  • Grill pan · Also works: Cast-iron pan (No grill marks) · Charcoal grill (Outdoors) · Broiler (Broiler)
  • Bowl · Also works: Pot (None)
  • Skewers · Also works: Grill basket (Grill basket) · Toothpick (For small bites)

🧻 Consumables: Paper towels

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