Curtis Stone's chicken skewers with cucumber pico de gallo

Intro

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chicken thighs it's one of the first

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things I reach for why because they are

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delicious they are always succulent and

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juicy and the flavor of course is

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fantastic I'm going to make some chicken

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skewers marinade them we're going to

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cook them on a grill but you can also

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cook them outside on the barbecue and

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then the accompaniment really world is

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your oyster I'm going to toast some

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flatbreads and I'm also going to make a

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bit of a Pico DEA which is kind of like

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a little salsa but we're going to use

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lots of cucumber so it's a really nice

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fresh one all we need to do is cut the

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chicken thighs and then we're going to

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marinade them and skew them so grab a

How to cut chicken thighs into skewers

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sharp knife and just take that chicken

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thigh open it up like that and cut it

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into three pieces just like that really

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really simple and the idea here is that

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they're relatively uniform in size and

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shape and that way they'll cook nice and

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evenly pick them up and stick them

How to make marinade

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straight into a large bowl and then we

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marinate so what whatever spices you

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like or spices that you can use you can

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really go crazy but I'm going to keep it

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pretty simple I've got paprika cumin and

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corander and then you just toss so you

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can use your hand you can use a spoon

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you can use tongs I'm going to add a

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little

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salt of course the great thing about

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using some kind of dry rub or marinade

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is you get lots of flavor into the

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chicken and it will penetrate that

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protein beautiful okay just a little bit

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of olive oil

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and then we build our skewers what I do

How to make skewers

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with mine is I pick it up and just kind

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of

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thread straight

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through each piece of thigh and then

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push it down now I like using the

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stainless steel skewers um but you can

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use the wooden ones as well you do need

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to soak them in water before you

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actually skew the protein onto it and

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that just stops them from splintering so

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just sort of flatten it out and that's

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going to help it cook nice and evenly it

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is time to cook these chicken skewers so

How to cook skewers

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all I'm going to do is put a tiny little

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drizzle more oil both for flavor and

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also to make sure nothing sticks pick up

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those skewers and just stick them just

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like

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that you can flatten them down just a

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little just to make sure that you get in

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good contact with the heat you're going

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to cook them for maybe 3 or 4 minutes on

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either side turn them we'll turn them a

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couple of times and we're just going to

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make sure that they're perfectly cooked

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through now a Pico DEA is a salsa right

How to make pico de gallo

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so all you're going to do is keep the

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tomatoes and all the ingredients raw I'm

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actually using a little spring

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onion over here I've got some

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garlic I've got lots of

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cucumber this is a long red chili if

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you're doing it for the kids you might

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want to put this much if you're doing it

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for someone that loves the spice go for

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it and instead of using coriander which

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is typically um found uh in a p of go to

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guia I'm actually using a little mint to

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give it some really lovely freshness for

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the chicken and the last two ingredients

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of course are the liquids we're going to

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use a little lemon juice and zest and

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some olive

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oil season it with salt and then what I

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want you to do is just go underneath

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flip that baby over oh yeah look at that

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beautiful CH that we're already starting

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to get what I want you to do is grab one

How to toast flatbread

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of these beautiful big flat breads you

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get these straight out of the pack from

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cold drop it into a nice hot pan and

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we're just going to toast it really

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really just to warm it through if you

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wanted to throw them in the oven you

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could do that as well so you just spin

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them around make sure they're hot on

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both sides and that's it now I know the

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golden question you're all wondering how

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do I know when my chicken is cooked grab

How to know when chicken is cooked

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yourself a small knife and just

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Pierce just a little bit cut all the way

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through to the skewer and then press

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right beside it now if pink juice kind

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of comes out of that little incision

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you'll know that it's not quite done but

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if clear liquid or nothing at all comes

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out you're ready to go and my chicken is

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ready to go once it comes off the grill

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you need to let it rest for just a

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couple of minutes it is dinner

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time so this is what you do grab one of

How to assemble

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those beautiful flatbreads straight off

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the pile go ahead and grab one of those

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skewers of chicken of course remove the

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skewer just like that then load it up

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with that beautiful pic DEA that already

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looks pretty special but here's another

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thing that I like to do I reach for the

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Greek yogurt it's creamy it's fabulous

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it gives a little tartness cracker

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pepper I kind of think this looks like

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the perfect week night dinner and the

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great news is it's a really generous

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portion of chicken so there'll probably

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be some leftovers which is great in

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sandwiches or tossed over your favorite

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salad for later in the week delicious

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