Today at work we chatted about our favourite pastimes as children. I mentioned that , to pass the time during summers, my siblings and cousins would meet at my grandmother’s place every day. We would swim, watch (music) videos, eat, sleep, fight, swim some more, eat some more and definitely fight some more. Almost like a day care for grandchildren.
Today, I am much more civilized. If I have any spare time I like to pour over the pages of cookbooks, food magazines and food blogs. I love stacking cookbooks by my beside pouring over them to get myself to sleep.
My husband was recently away for three weeks so I left all the cookbooks on his side of the bed. In an attempt to tidy up one Saturday morning, I covered the books with the bed cover. A friend came over and did a double take when she entered the room.
“Is that your husband?” She whispered. We both had a good laugh when she realized that I had accumulated enough cookbooks to make her think it was him under the sheets.
Equally as addictive is my love of food blogs. I have recently discovered many great food blogs like this one and there are many that I visit regularly. I find their stories, recipes and photography inspiring and definitely, they take up less space that the cookbooks! A few weeks ago I came across Peter’s swordfish souvlaki and I was reminded of a Spanish tapa called Pinchos Moruños. These moorish inspired Spanish skewers are usually made from pork but the recipe is easily adaptable to chicken, lamb and yes, I think even swordfish! It’s so easy to make, just marinate a few hours (overnight is preferable) and grill. They are great served with lebanese bread and aioli (Spanish mayonnaise).
Pinchos Moruños
Serves 2
- 2 chicken breasts
- 2 tablespoons olive oil plus more for frying
- 2 cloves garlic, crushed
- 1 teaspoon sweet paprika
- 1/2 teaspoon chili powder
- 1/4 teaspoon each of coriander, cumin and oregano
- salt and pepper to taste
- Dice the chicken breasts into 2.5 cm pieces, marinate with the rest of the ingredients for at least 4 hours to overnight.
- When the chicken is ready to be grilled, heat a grill pan with more olive oil (otherwise, you can use a BBQ grill) and fry the chicken for at least 5 minutes until cooked through.
This dish is perfect with some crusty or lebanese bread, aioli (Spanish garlic mayonnaise) and a salad.
Simple & beautiful chicken kebabs.
It is Kebab week at Get Grillin’ we would love if you submitted up to any 3 recipes (they don’t have to be grilled) to our link up. This one would be perfect! This week we have a Rosle Grill Utensils giveaway. http://su.pr/1BZGKK
gracias,por los mail,esta receta de los pinchos de pollo son exisitos.cariños
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Great and easy tapas. Perfect for entertaining.
Tee hee, a husband sized pile of books!
Great dish Trissa, would be a lovely dinner with the bread and some salad.
terrific story. amazing skewers of meat. that is all. 🙂
Always interested in reading more about Spanish and Filipino cuisines from your blog. New flavours and new dishes that I haven’t heard of pop up makes reading your blog one of my favourite pastime.
Trissa, home alone again?! The three weeks time will fly quickly while you dive in the ocean of the mouth-watering cookbooks.
This dish look absolutely attractive. Simple, delish and healthy.
Simple and delicious. My family would love it. Its winter where I am, but the grill is still in use!
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Trissa these look so good. You’ve brought back memories of my visits to all the pinchos bars around San Sebastian. Happy days
Wonderful chicken skewers!!
Teeeeheee 🙂 My bedside table looks just like yours… lots of cookbooks as my bedtime reading (& drooling) I so relate.
Nice little Pinchos Moruños – love these little sukka’s 🙂
Oh! Tapas! I haven’t made any in so long … these look easy and perfect for this busy Christmas schedule coming up next week! Thanks, Trissa!
Trissa! What a beautiful and tasty looking meal. Thank you for the inspiration… I have some chicken tenders and this would make a lovely nutritious meal that my carnivore would love!
🙂
Valerie
I love how vibrantly colourful and summery this looks! Perfect for the sunny weather that has just reappeared in Canberra 🙂
Hmm. I’m very, very single, so maybe I should start piling my cookbooks under the covers just to make myself feel better? 😉
Thanks for the shout out Missy! I love the Spanish pinchos because they always remind me of souvlaki! Beautiful presentaciones Trissa!
I thought I’d died and gone to heaven when I saw Donna Hay’s cover this month….and here you made it! Wow. Impressive, Trissa. So lovely, so perfect for the holidays!
Anyway…on to this post. I really like this simple, tasty recipe…would be great with naan!
That looks wonderful. I also love it that it’s easy to make, requires not too many ingredients, and its incredibly healthy.
HOpe you have a fantastic weekend ahead!
*kisses* HH
I have to laugh, because I am that same way with cookbooks. I’ll go to sleep with them on my bed. And I’ll use my husband’s side of the bed if he’s out of town. I love this dish. It’s clean and flavorful and I need to bookmark. It’s hard to get chicken to look so good in a photo. Lovely job.
Nice clean photos and background 🙂
Easy tapas is a great idea, are you gonna post more?
Hi Trissa! That looks yummy! Very easy to prepare too! I’d probably have it with rice, but still with heaps of aioli.