Cooking on a Cyprus Spit Roaster
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If you follow our Facebook page, chances are you've seen some of the delicious meals one of our keen Cyprus Grillers Bobbie Baxter has shared. It seems like every couple of weeks Bobbie is making the rest of us jealous by posting her mouth-watering photos. Whether it be split chickens, legs of lamb, roast veggies or roast pork with crackling, she's done it all. Bobbie is so passionate about cooking on her Cyprus Spit, she even talked her 2 best friends into buying one!
Here’s one of Bobbie's many recipes - Chicken Skewers and Roast Veggies :
- Chicken thighs - slice into 3 equal strips and then each strip into thirds. Thread the chicken onto the skewers leaving around 5cm at either end.
- An array of veggies - sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes, carrots and large onion - all with the skin on and double wrapped in foil
- Corn cobs cut into thirds - To make it easier to put the corn onto the skewer, gentle twist the skewer through the corn. Twisting lessens the risk of damage to cob and kernels as well as makes it easier to get onto the skewer
Chicken marinading baste -
- 1/2 lemon juice
- 1/2 olive oil
- Freshly ground petter
- Salt
Corn marinading baste -
- 2 teaspoons melted butter
- 1 teaspoon olive oil
- Sprinkle of salt and pepper
Getting it perfect -
- Ensure there is a nice even thin layer of coals all over.
- Place your vegetables wrapped in foil onto the hot coals.
- Place your chicken skewers into the skewer rack & start the motor immediately so they begin turning.
- Brush your chicken baste with a silicone basting brush evenly over the entire length of skewered meat.
- Keep an eye that you are getting a nice even colour along with all skewers.
- Turn your vegetables a quarter turn every 10 minutes or so depending on their size.
- Once your chicken is starting to show the first signs of browning, add your corn cob skewers.
- Baste corn cobs at the beginning of cooking, then once more after 7-8 minutes.
- After approx. 10 minutes from second basting, remove corn cobs & check roasted vegetables are ready.
- Remove veggies & gently move around coals to pile up under your skewers evenly being careful as they are roasting hot! Literally!
- Allow skewers to brown well over the coals. This will give them an almost crunchy yet sticky rich texture on the outside. The meat inside will be deliciously juicy & tender!
- Remove chicken skewers from heat & serve at the table with roasted vegetables & corn.
Bobbie says "I can guarantee no one will knock back any of this meal AND those who have never tried roasted onion are in for a REAL sweet treat!"
Bobbies Tip for Beginners:
In this meal, Bobbie used slightly less beads to coal just tp ensure there isn't too much forced heat on the vegetables which would case them to burn. "When cooking a larger roast, I use more bead to coal ratio at the beginning which allows me to continue adding a few lumps of coal throughout the cooking process due to the beads burning slower"
If you're wanting to try this at home for yourself, you'll need a Cyprus Spit (Bobbie uses the Deluxe model).
Here are a few more photos Bobbie has shared with us since investing in a Cyprus Spit over a year ago
HELP PLEASE: We need volunteers for our upcoming newsletters. If you don't mind sharing a photo of yourself and a recipe, we'd really appreciate if you'd get in touch. Our newsletter subscribers and Facebook audience love reading other people's stories and seeing their photos. It's also a great way to show newbies that if you can do it so can they. If you can help, please give me a call on 0411 154 403.
By: Rhiannon Peterson
