TIKKA KEBABS

TIKKA KEBABS

Yield: 4 servings

Nutritional Information Per Serving:

Calories: 161; Protein: 23 g; Sodium: 81 mg; Fat: 2 g; Carbohydrates: 14 g; Cholesterol: 0 mg
Exchanges: 2 Vegetable, 1/2 Fruit, 3 Low-Fat Meat

INGREDIENTS :

- 1/2 cup low-fat plain yogurt
- 1 garlic clove, minced
- 1 tsp. grated fresh ginger, or 1/4 tsp. ground
- 1 tsp. tomato paste
- 1 Tbsp. curry powder
- Salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste
- 12 oz. boneless skinned chicken breast, cut in 24 pieces
- 8 1-inch cubes fresh or canned pineapple
- 1 medium red onion, cut in 20 wedges
- 1 large green bell pepper, cut in 20 pieces
- Canola oil cooking spray

DIRECTIONS :


- In a medium bowl, combine yogurt, garlic, ginger, tomato paste, curry powder, salt and pepper. Mix in chicken to coat on all sides. Cover bowl and refrigerate 2 to 8 hours.

- Preheat grill or broiler. Soak skewers in water at least 15 minutes.

- Remove chicken from marinade, scraping off and discarding most of marinade. Onto each skewer thread a piece of pineapple, then chicken, onion wedge and green pepper. Repeat, minus pineapple, until each kebab contains 6 pieces of chicken, 5 onion wedges, 5 pieces of pepper and 2 pineapple cubes, one cube at each end.

- To help prevent charring, spray kebabs with cooking oil spray. Cook skewers 4 to 5 minutes, making sure they are far enough from the heat source to avoid charring. Turn and cook until chicken is opaque throughout, about 4 minutes.

Serve kebabs. Kebabs go especially well with freshly-cooked brown rice or tucked inside pita bread lined with lettuce leaves.