Chipotle Chicken Skewers with Creamy Cilantro Dipping Sauce

Name: Chipotle Chicken Skewers with Creamy Cilantro Dipping Sauce
Yield: Serves 10 to 12 (Makes 30 skewers)
Cuisine: Latin America & Caribbean, Central & South American
Ingredients: 1 1/2 pounds, boneless, skinless chicken breasts (about 3 large), trimmed; 1/4 cup, vegetable oil; 1/4 cup, packed light brown sugar; 2 tablespoons, minced fresh cilantro leaves; 2 teaspoons, chipotle chile in adobo sauce, minced; 2 teaspoons, adobo sauce; 1 , medium garlic clove, minced or pressed though a garlic press (about 1 teaspoon); 1 1/2 teaspoons, salt; 1/2 teaspoon, chili powder; 1/4 teaspoon, ground black pepper; 3/4 cup, sour cream; 1/4 cup, mayonnaise; 1/4 cup, juice from 2 to 3 limes, plus more as needed; 2 , scallions, minced; 2 tablespoons, minced fresh cilantro leaves; 1 , small garlic clove, minced or pressed through a garlic press (about 1/2 teaspoon); 1/2 teaspoon, table salt; 1/8 teaspoon, black pepper

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Latin America & Caribbean

Central & South American

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Weeknight

Chicken skewers are perfect cocktail party fare. They can be flavored with all manner of marinades and matched with simple, but dynamically flavored dipping sauces.

SERVES10 to 12 (Makes 30 skewers)

TIME30 minutes

Chipotle Chicken Skewers with Creamy Cilantro Dipping Sauce

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

While developing our chipotle chicken skewers recipe, we froze boneless, skinless chicken breasts for 30 minutes to make them easier to slice evenly and thinly. After a number of tests we learned that a very concentrated marinade, without m...

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