Keto Creamy Verde Chicken Skewers

Name: Keto Creamy Verde Chicken Skewers
Prep time: 250 min
Cook time: 40 min
Total time: 290 min
Yield: 2
Cuisine: keto
Ingredients: Chicken Breast Boneless Skinless Raw; Salt; Black pepper; Onion powder; Cumin, ground; Parsley, dried; Olive Or Extra Virgin Olive Oil; Cilantro; Olive Or Extra Virgin Olive Oil; Lime juice, fresh; Jalapeno peppers, raw; Salt; Oregano, dried; Garlic; Sour cream

133 ratings

Prepare Time 250 minutes

Cook Time 40 minutes

If you like spicy foods, you’ll love these chicken skewers dripping in creamy verde sauce. The chicken is marinated in oil and spices before roasted in the oven on skewers. When they come out of the oven, you’ll spoon a scratch-made, spicy, green sauce that’s balanced out with cooling sour cream. Most of your prep time is allotted to the marinating time, so the real time you spend in the kitchen preparing the recipe is only 10-15 minutes! If you’re using this Keto recipe for meal prepping, wait until the chicken skewers cool completely before you store them in containers for refrigeration. You can keep the chicken fresh for up to 5 days. You may reheat the creamy verde sauce with the chicken, or you can keep the sauce cold or cool. ### Multiple Uses For The Recipe If you have chosen this Keto recipe for meal prepping, there are many very simple side dishes you can pair with the chicken for a complete meal. Enjoy your chicken skewers with sauteed Keto vegetables or one of Carb Manager’s cauliflower rice recipes. You can also use this recipe for Keto tacos, meal bowls, or salads. Let other users know in the comments how you use this Keto chicken recipe. ### Modify The Spice Level If using a whole jalapeno in your verde sauce is too spicy for you, you can alter the heat level. You may omit the jalapeno entirely or use half the amount listed. Don’t substitute the jalapeno with any other peppers because this may change your macros and will change the taste of the sauce. However, you can substitute the jalapeno with a pinch or more of dried red pepper flakes for a different type of heat. Jessica L.

How to make Keto Creamy Verde Chicken Skewers

Prepare the chicken in advance by cutting chicken breasts into 2-inch pieces and adding them all to a mixing bowl. Season the chicken pieces with salt, pepper, onion powder, cumin, and parsley. Drizzle the first amount of olive oil in the bowl, and toss the chicken until it’s all coated in oil and spices. Wrap the bowl in plastic wrap, and marinate the chicken in your refrigerator for at least 4 hours. However, you can move on directly to Step 2 if you wish.
After marinating the chicken, make the spicy verde sauce. Combine cilantro, the second amount of olive oil, lime juice, a chopped jalapeno, salt, oregano, and minced garlic in a food processor. Pulse until you have a very loose and fragrant marinade. Leave out the sour cream until later. Spoon a couple of spoonfuls of the verde sauce over your uncooked chicken, and fold the chicken over to coat it lightly in the sauce.
Turn on an oven to preheat to 375 degrees. Use either metal skewers or wooden skewers that have been soaked in water to pierce and arrange the chicken. Each serving is approximately 6 pieces of chicken, so try to get one serving on each skewer. Once all the chicken is on the skewers, set them on a baking rack. You can place a sheet tray under your baking rack to catch any drippings.
Cook the skewers in your oven for about 40 minutes, rotating the skewers halfway through the cooking time. The skewers are done when you see strong darkened edges where the verde sauce has caramelized a little bit and the largest pieces read a 165 degrees internal temperature. When the chicken skewers are almost done cooking, add the sour cream to your remaining verde sauce in the food processor and blend until you have the creamy verde sauce completed. Spoon the creamy verde sauce over the hot chicken skewers for serving.

Ingredients of Keto Creamy Verde Chicken Skewers

Ingredient	Quantity
1. Chicken Breast Boneless Skinless Raw	undefined
2. Salt	undefined
3. Black pepper	undefined
4. Onion powder	undefined
5. Cumin, ground	undefined
6. Parsley, dried	undefined
7. Olive Or Extra Virgin Olive Oil	undefined
8. Cilantro	undefined
9. Olive Or Extra Virgin Olive Oil	undefined
10. Lime juice, fresh	undefined
11. Jalapeno peppers, raw	undefined
12. Salt	undefined
13. Oregano, dried	undefined
14. Garlic	undefined
15. Sour cream	undefined

Keto Creamy Verde Chicken Skewers nutrients

caloriesKCal: 230.81 caloriesKJ: 965.709 totalCarbs: 4.334 diabetesCarbsADA: 4.334 netCarbs: 3.251 diabetesCarbs: 3.263 fiber: 1.059 starch: 0.295 sugar: 1.767 addedSugar: 0 sugarAlcohols: 0.024 protein: 23.948 fat: 13.7 transFat: 0.127 monousatFat: 6.823 polyunsatFat: 1.366 omega3Fat: 0.027 omega6Fat: 0.135 saturatedFat: 3.118 cholesterol: 81.015 vitaminA: 66.735 vitaminC: 33.625 vitaminD: 0.057 vitaminE: 2.375 vitaminK: 32.792 vitaminB1: 0.101 vitaminB2: 0.202 vitaminB3: 9.028 vitaminB5: 0.207 vitaminB6: 0.992 vitaminB12: 0.245 potassium: 518.853 magnesium: 38.317 calcium: 37.745 iron: 0.896 zinc: 0.878 copper: 0.073 phosphorus: 250.192 sodium: 795.36 selenium: 30.779 folate: 22.489 choline: 6.53 alcohol: 0 caffeine: 0 gluten: 0 manganese: 0.112 conjugatedLinoleicAcid: 0.017 phyticAcid: 9.68 xylitol: 0 isomalt: 0 sorbitol: 0 maltitol: 0 lactitol: 0 erythritol: 0 pinitol: 0 inositol: 0.024 mannitol: 0

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