Chicken skewers with a fiery rocket, lime and baby corn salad
Chicken Skewers with a fiery rocket, lime and baby corn salad. A really simple, tasty and healthy mid-week dinner, especially good for when you're short on time.
Half a block100g of halloumi cheese, cut onto 2cm pieces
Half a tablespoon Olive oil
1Lime
sea salt and pepper
4wooden skewers
For the salad
35gRocket leaves
1baby gem lettuce90g
75gcucumber
75gbaby corn
75gmangetoutsliced in half on the diagonal
1red chilli thinly sliced into circles
1lime
Halfa tablespoon Olive oil
Sea salt and black pepper
Instructions
For the Chicken Skewers
Pre heat the oven to 180 degrees C.
Rinse the skewers under the tap before you begin. This will help to stop the skewers burning during cooking.
Prepare the chicken by slicing into chunks and seasoning with your preferred spices or herbs (see above for ideas), Prepare the veg and halloumi and lay out a baking tray where you can place the skewers as your making them. Thread the chicken, cheese and veg on to each skewer in your preferred order. I tend to add two or three pieces to each skewer in turn, so to keep each skewer the same and to ensure there is good spread of each ingredient across all of them.At this point, if you are pre-preparing, your skewers can be wrapped in cling film and chilled in the fridge until you are ready to cook them.
Once your skewers are made, put a large pan on a high heat, and drizzle the skewers with half a tablespoon of olive oil and the juice of one lime.
Place the skewers into the hot pan and cook on each side for 30 seconds or so. Once the ingredients on each skewers have been seared off on all sides, transfer to a baking tray and continue to cook in the oven for 20 minutes.
For the salad
Whilst the skewers are in the oven you can prepare the salad.
Slice the baby corn in half length ways and cook in a small pan of boiling water for 3 minutes. Then drain and chill in cold water.
Prepare the salad by roughly chopping the baby gem leaves and slicing the cucumber. To make the salad look extra fancy I usually cut the seeds out of the cucumber (v-shape) before slicing.
Then in a large bowl add the rocket, baby gem, cooled baby corn, raw mangetout (sliced in half), cucumber and sliced chilli. Drizzle over half a tablespoon of olive oil, juice from half a lime and season with salt and pepper. Then mix well with your hands.
Serve up your salad onto plates or onto one board and lay the cooked skewers at the side, add the remaining wedges of lime to finish off.