BOURBON MARINATED GRILLED CHICKEN KABOBS
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Bourbon Marinated Grilled Chicken Kabobs have a rich, deep, and slightly sweet flavor. These sizzling chicken kabobs are wonderfully easy to make.
Serve with Potsticker Pasta Salad, Carrot Fries, and Soft Fluffy Yeast Rolls for a tasty meal. Also, try my Grilled chicken caprese.
Bourbon Marinated Grilled Chicken Kabobs
First, don’t be discouraged if you have children and think you can’t serve this because it has alcohol in it. The alcohol burns off and leaves a distinct flavor in its place. This chicken is safe to serve to children.
Alternatively, you can substitute apple juice or apple cider.
If you make kabobs, I would remove the chicken chunks from the skewer before serving to children. If your kids are anything like mine, they’ll use anything as a weapon sword!
Why use bourbon?
As I said, bourbon leaves a deep, rich, distinct flavor. I don’t really like to drink bourbon unless I’m watching my team in 30-degree weather. It would have to be a serious game for me to sit in 30 degrees! Like, it would mean we’re either in a big bowl game or the national championship. And, we haven’t been in the national championship game since the 60s, so, there’s that… I digress; we were talking about drinking bourbon, or cooking with bourbon.
This is a simple two-part recipe. I like to marinate the chicken before I get the boys from school. By the time we get home, they do homework and whatever other activity they have, the chicken is ready to grill and dinner is quick and easy.
Another thing, you don’t have to make kabobs with this marinade. I do because let’s face it food on a stick is fun and my kids eat better if I have the fun factor. You may want to use chicken breast or chicken tenders. You can even use bone-in, skin-on chicken breasts; it would be awesome!
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Bourbon Marinated Grilled Chicken Kabobs
Ingredients
- 2 to 2 ½ pounds boneless
- ¾ cup low sodium soy sauce
- ½ cup bourbon
- ¼ cup Worcestershire sauce
- ¼ cup water
- 2 tablespoons canola oil
- 3 cloves garlic clove
- 3 tablespoons brown sugar
- 2 teaspoons black pepper
- ¼ teaspoon fresh ginger minced
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 4 wooden skewers soaked in water at least 10 minutes
Instructions
- If using wooden skewers, soak in water at least 10 minutes before grilling.
- Cut chicken into 2-inch chunks.
- Add soy, bourbon, Worcestershire, water, oil, cloves, brown sugar, pepper, ginger, and salt to bag and smush to combine. (Yes, 'smush' is an official cooking term.)
- Place chicken in a bag and roll around in marinade to cover the chicken.
- Place in a bowl and refrigerate 30 minutes up to 4 hours.
- Grill, covered with grill lid, over med-high approximately 4 minutes per side. Grill time will vary greatly depending on how large of chunks you have and how hot your grill is. Watch them closely. Test with a thermometer, the chicken will be done when the temperature reaches 155 degrees F. Allow the chicken to rest 5 before cutting. The temperature will rise while sitting to about 160 degrees F.
Notes
Nutrition
Nutritional information given is an automatic calculation and can vary based on the exact products you use and changes you make to the recipe. If these numbers are important to you, I recommend calculating them yourself.
Love the flavor bourbon can give to a dish. This one looks delicious! Thanks for sharing on Cast Party Wednesday.
Me too! I grill a lot with it.
You had me at Bourbon Marinated. I cook with whiskey and wine a lot so I can’t wait to try this too. This looks amazing!! Found your recipe at Pint Sized Baker’s Two-Cup Tuesday. I am one of the hostesses of Tickle My Tastebuds and would love you to stop by and link up this recipe if you have not yet already.
These kabobs look amazing Paula! Love the sound of the flavors here and can’t wait to add it to our grilling list 🙂
Thanks Kelly!
Oh yes, even the corn on the cob pokeys are weapons and swords in my house. I can only imagine how delicious this chicken is with this amazing marinade. Definitely making this with the swords and all!
ah, yes, mother’s of boys understand each other! I never knew so many things could be weapons or swords.
Bourbon is the ‘go to’ liquor these days. I am enjoying the adventure. Perfect timing for this recipe with summer upon us.
Kabobs are soooo festive. Or maybe its just me.
I love kabobs too and if you’re entertaining they’re more economical 🙂 Thanks for stopping by!
Oh man, food on a stick is my favorite part of summer! When I lived in Iowa we would try to count how many bizarre things they sold on a stick and then tried to eat as many as we could find 🙂 These kebabs looks amazing!
haha, I love that! What was the most memorable?
I do love recipes with alcohol. These sound simple and tasty too.
Me toooo 🙂 Thanks, I love easy recipes too, thanks for stopping by!
Another great one for the grill! Thank you Paula! Pinning (and stumbling!) Can’t wait to try them!
Thanks Michelle, we grill so much during the summer, keeps it cooler inside. Thanks for sharing!
Seriously drooling over these, love the flavoring!!!
Thanks Matt!
Thanks, just downloaded this yummy recipe.
Great, hope you love it, Dee!