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Food with Mark Bittman

Bittman Bite: Grilled Chicken Kabobs

Food with Mark Bittman

Sweetness and Light

Nutrition, Arts, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Food, Culture, Cooking

4.8981 Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2021

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

Food with Mark Bittman is coming May 24. In the meantime, enjoy some outdoor grilling this weekend with Mark's easy recipe for chicken kabobs.

  • Cut boneless chicken breasts or thighs into chunks.
  • Combine a teaspoon of paprika, a teaspoon of cinnamon, a dash of nutmeg, salt, and pepper together in a small bowl.
  • Toss the chicken with a few tablespoons of olive oil and some fresh lemon juice.
  • Sprinkle well with the spice mixture.
  • Thread the chicken onto skewers and grill until done.
  • Then serve with lemon wedges. 
  • It takes just a couple of minutes more to slice up some eggplant and zucchini and throw them onto the grill with the kebabs. 


Each week on Food with Mark Bittman, longtime New York Times food writer and #1 bestselling author Mark Bittman (How to Cook Everything, Eat Vegan Before 6:00) will cover everything to do with food, including cooking tips, quick recipes, listener questions, and discussions of the world's most important food issues from junk food to sustainability. Plus, Mark sits down with a different guest, from chefs and celebrities to activists and important people in the food world you may not know about. They talk about cooking, eating, and how food affects us all – our lives, our health, our planet.

Subscribe now to Food with Mark Bittman on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts, and don’t miss the first episode May 24 with Mark's special guest - the fabulous Nigella Lawson.


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0:00.0

Hey, this is Mark Bitman. You might know me from How to Cook Everything, or from the New York Times, or from the

0:07.0

Bitman Project. You might say I'm obsessed with everything about food.

0:13.0

I'll tell you more about that in a new podcast called appropriately enough.

0:16.0

Food.

0:17.0

I'll tell you more about that in a minute, but first here's one of my favorite recipes for grilled chicken kebabs. Here's how I make grilled

0:25.4

chicken kebabs. Cut some breasts or even better thighs into chunks,

0:30.0

boneless of course. Combine in a bowl, say a teaspoon of paprika, a teaspoon of cinnamon, a little bit of nutmeg, some salt and pepper.

0:39.6

Toss the chicken with some olive oil, a few tablespoons tablespoons and some fresh squeezed lemon juice and then

0:44.9

sprinkle it well with the spice mixture.

0:48.2

Thread the chicken onto skewers and grill until it's done.

0:51.4

Then serve with lemon wedges. It doesn't take more than a couple of minutes

0:55.0

to slice up some eggplant and zucchini and throw them onto the grill too with the

0:59.6

kebabs. That makes for really good eating.

1:11.0

That was just a sample of the kind of tips and recipes you'll get on my new podcast, Food. I'll also sit down with guests like Carla Hall, Tom Calicchio, Ted Danson, Jane Goodall, and important

1:18.0

people in the food world you may not know about.

1:20.9

We'll talk about cooking, eating, and how food affects us all, our lives, our health, our planet.

1:27.8

I'll even take your questions, from how to boil a perfect egg, to how to feed your picky toddler, to how to increase people's control over the role

1:36.1

food plays in our lives. So subscribe now to Food with Mark Pittman on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.

1:47.0

And don't miss my first episode, May 24th, with my special guest, The Fab fabulous Nijella Lawson.

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