Cold chicken and garlic skewers

This dish makes an excellent cold starter or tapas dish.  It is succulent and brilliantly combines the flavours of the chicken, garlic and lemon.  The garlic becomes soft and loses its pungency during the cooking.  The presentation on skewers is unusual and interesting.

Preparation Time: 20 Mins

Cooking Time: 20 Mins

Total Time: 1¾ Hrs

Ingredients

For 4 servings…

4                    Chicken supremes    

8 cloves           Garlic  - whole         

4 slices            Lemon      

3 tbs               Olive oil    

For decoration

                     Rocket      

For the marinade

3 cloves           Garlic  - crushed      

1                    Lemon  - juice of      

6 tbs               Olive oil    

1 tbs               Parsley  - chopped finely        

                     Pepper  - black, freshly ground 

                      Salt          

To drizzle

                     Lemon juice            

                      Olive oil    

Method

To prepare the marinade…

Combine marinade ingredients in a bowl.

Cut chicken into chunks and place in a bowl.  Pour over the marinade.  Leave for an hour in a fridge.

To cook and present the chicken…

Remove the chicken from the marinade and preserve the marinade.

Heat 2 tbs of oil in a pan and fry chicken chunks until browned and cooked.  Drizzle over a little of the reserved marinade and toss for two minutes more. 

Heat the remaining 1 tbs of oil in a separate pan and fry the garlic cloves gently for about five minutes until softened and slightly charred.

Briefly fry the lemon slices in the same pan as the garlic.

Thread the chicken chunks, garlic cloves and lemon slices on to skewers and leave to cool.  Drizzle over a little olive oil and lemon juice.

Serve cold with watercress.

  Wine recommendations

  Conventional

      Côtes de Gascogne rouge

  Interesting

      Brouilly

      Côtes du Luberon

      Côtes du Rhône