Recipes / Main dishes / Honey and soy chicken skewers
Lunch
Dinner
High protein
One-dish meal
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Honey and soy chicken skewers
Chicken thigh skewers glazed with honey, soy, hoisin and sweet chilli, with rice and pak choi. A post-workout meal full of flavour.
- Cooking
- 10 min
- Prep
- 20 min + marinating
- Difficulty
- Easy
Per serving
653 kcal
Protein · 30 %
48 g
Fat · 20 %
14 g
Carbs · 50 %
80 g
Estimate per serving, worked out ingredient by ingredient. The percentage is the share of the calories.
Ingredients
For 4 servings
- Marinade
- 1 thumb-sized piece of ginger
- 2 garlic cloves
- 2 tbsp honey
- 3 tbsp soy sauce
- 2 tbsp sweet chilli sauce
- 2 tbsp hoisin sauce
- 1 tbsp toasted sesame oil
- Skewers and sides
- 800 g chicken thighs, diced
- 4 spring onions
- 300 g rice
- 2 pak choi
- nigella and sesame seeds
- coriander, to garnish
- chilli and ginger sauce optional
Step by step
- Grate the ginger into a bowl along with the two garlic cloves.
- Add the honey, soy sauce, sweet chilli sauce, hoisin and sesame oil and mix well. Set a few tablespoons aside for glazing.
- Add the diced chicken to the marinade, mix and leave it to marinate for as long as you can.
- Thread the chicken onto skewers, alternating with pieces of spring onion.
- Put the skewers on a baking tray.
- Cook them under the grill or on the barbecue for about 10 minutes, glazing them with the reserved marinade every 3 or 4 minutes.
- Serve with rice and stir-fried pak choi, sprinkle with nigella and sesame seeds and garnish with coriander.