Turkey and Vegetable Skewers
A delicious, cheerful, and colorful main course suitable for all ages and tastes. With this recipe, you can use either turkey or chicken, and you can cook the skewers in the oven or air fryer.
Today, I’m presenting it with turkey, specifically with a piece of deboned thigh, which is my favorite part because it’s not dry. I had the thigh deboned, removed the skin and all the tendons, then cut the meat and vegetables into pieces, which was the hardest part. If you’re not able to do this, have your trusted butcher do it, or use breast meat instead.
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- Cost: Very economical
- Preparation time: 20 Minutes
- Portions: 4
- Cooking methods: Oven, Air Frying
- Cuisine: Italian
- Seasonality: All seasons
- Energy 209.72 (Kcal)
- Carbohydrates 7.10 (g) of which sugars 3.70 (g)
- Proteins 29.56 (g)
- Fat 7.38 (g) of which saturated 0.07 (g)of which unsaturated 0.14 (g)
- Fibers 2.36 (g)
- Sodium 242.28 (mg)
Indicative values for a portion of 200 g processed in an automated way starting from the nutritional information available on the CREA* and FoodData Central** databases. It is not food and / or nutritional advice.
* CREATES Food and Nutrition Research Center: https://www.crea.gov.it/alimenti-e-nutrizione https://www.alimentinutrizione.it ** U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service. FoodData Central, 2019. https://fdc.nal.usda.gov
Ingredients
Let’s go shopping
- 1.3 lbs turkey, thigh, skinless, raw (or breast)
- 1 bell pepper
- 1 zucchini
- 1 onion
- to taste sweet paprika
- to taste roast herbs
- to taste salt
- to taste pepper
Turkey and Vegetable Skewers
Tools
What we need to make the
- 1 Knife
- 1 Cutting board
- 8 Skewers
- 1 Oven
- 1 Tray or serving plate
- 1 Cling film
- 1 Air fryer
Steps
Let’s go into the kitchen
On a tray, spread out the turkey pieces and season them with roast herbs. Cover with cling film and let them marinate in the fridge while you prepare the vegetables.
Wash the zucchini and cut it into slices.
Wash the bell pepper, remove the stem, and cut it first into strips and then into squares the size of the zucchini slices.
Peel the onion and cut it into quarters. Now separate the layers.
Take the turkey out of the fridge and cut it into pieces the size of the vegetables.
Generously sprinkle the turkey pieces with sweet paprika.
The fun part begins. Take the skewers and alternate a piece of bell pepper, 1 piece of meat, 1 piece of onion, 1 piece of meat, a slice of zucchini, 1 piece of meat, and so on
until the skewer is complete.
Finish all the other ingredients.
Now decide whether to cook the skewers in the oven, in the air fryer, or on the grill.
In all three cases, give them a light brush of olive oil.
For oven cooking at 375°F for about 15 minutes
for air fryer at 390°F for 10 minutes.
For grilling or barbecuing, the important thing is that the tool where you place the skewers is very hot, even scorching.
The Turkey and Vegetable Skewers are ready, can you smell the aroma?
Storage and Variations
Turkey and Vegetable Skewers
Storage: 2 days in the fridge, 3 months in the freezer
Variations: instead of turkey, you can use chicken or lamb, and you can add mushroom pieces among the vegetables.
