Hello, hello!

So today we are having a very simple recipe but that is just soooo yummy! Shashlik is the main dish that people have at barbecues in Russia — or at least in my family and in friends’ families. It is skewers of big chunks of marinated meat. There are many different way of marinating the meat — each family have there own — so I’ll present you my moms one that is extremely simple and just awesome — not biased at all!

By the way I don’t have access to a barbecue at the moment so I did it in a pan. It is still yummy but the smokiness of a wooden fire is always better 😉

Ah! And last thing, in my family we generally do it from chicken legs. You separate the drumstick and cut — or actually if I am at my house in Russia I chop it with an ax *evil laugh*  — the thigh in two. You marinate and cook it with the bone and the skin. But you can as well do it with chicken breasts — as I did today — or even with other meats like pork for example.

Ingredients for one chicken breast:

• One chicken breast — No way!!!
• One onion
• 2 tablespoons of vinegar (better use apple or cider vinegar, but it works with other vinegar like rice one)
• 1 teaspoon of salt
• 1 teaspoon of pepper

1. Cut the onion in four and separate the petals.
2. Slice the chicken breast in 1.5-2cm chunks.
3. Mix everything in a bowl, and leave it to marinate for at least 30 minutes but it is best at 2 hours of marinating
4. 1. If you do it on a barbecue: Alternate chicken and onion on the skewer an cook on a high heat
   2. If you cook it in a pan: Preheat some oil at medium-high to high heat, sear the chicken on at least to side then add the onions and the remaining marinade.
5. Cook until the chicken get golden brown or even slightly burned. The onions shall at least be soft. And it ready

Bonus: If you do it in the pan and the chicken is ready before the onion, remove the chicken from the pan and use a little bit of whiskey to deglaze the pan with the onions 😉