Cilantro Lime Butter with Grilled Chicken Kabobs
Tender kabobs with savory cilantro lime butter. Grilling: fast, easy and leaves you with one less pan to clean.
Prep Time15 minutes mins
Cook Time15 minutes mins
Total Time30 minutes mins
Course: Main Course
Cuisine: American
Servings: 4 servings
Calories: 294kcal
- 9 ounces Chicken Breast about 3 breasts
- 1 Purple onion chopped
- salt and peper for seasoning
- Skewers
- ½ cup butter
- 1 lime zested and juiced
- 2 Tablespoon cilantro minced
- 2 garlic cloves minced
Bring butter to room temperature.
Add chopped cilantro, chopped garlic cloves, juice of lime and zest.
Stir well.
Using plastic wrap place butter on wrap and roll into a log of desired shape. (you can put in air tight container too) refrigerate until firm. You can place in freezer if in a rush.
While butter is firming up slice raw chicken into large bite size pieces.
Alternate chicken and onion on skewers, ending with an onion.
Do not push the meat and veggies too close together on skewers. Have them only very lightly touching. This allows the heat to cook the meat on all sides evenly.
Sprinkle salt and pepper on all sides of meat.
Pre-heat grill on med-high heat. When grill is heated, place skewers on distributed evenly. Flip when one side if gold brown with grill marks. Check temp before serving to test that chicken is throughly done.
Serve with cilantro lime butter.
Serving: 1skewer | Calories: 294kcal | Carbohydrates: 4g | Protein: 14g | Fat: 24g | Saturated Fat: 14g | Cholesterol: 101mg | Sodium: 278mg | Potassium: 293mg | Sugar: 1g | Vitamin A: 740IU | Vitamin C: 8.2mg | Calcium: 25mg | Iron: 0.4mg