Summary: Thin slices of chicken, seasoned with sage and pepper, wrapped around bacon grilled along with sausage slowly until tender. Served with grilled zucchini and ciabatta bread and garnished with fresh herbs, rosemary and sage is an excellent dish for cocktail or barbeque for summer time.
Prep time and Cooking time (duration): 25 minutes
Number of servings (yield): 4
Ingredients for Escaped Birds:
- 1 large chicken breast
- ½ lb pancetta or bacon
- 4-6 Link sausage
- 1 medium yellow zucchini
- 1 medium green zucchini
- ½ loaf of ciabatta bread
- 3 rosemary sprigs
- Fresh sage
- Olive oil
- Salt
- Pepper
Get Ready To Work in “Real Time” to Make Escaped Birds :
Get out these items and utensils: Knife for chopping, 6 wooden skewers, and Glass baking sheet
Get from your pantry: Salt, olive oil, pepper,
Get from your refrigerator: chicken breast, pancetta or bacon, Link sausage, yellow zucchini, green zucchini, rosemary, sage, ciabatta bread
Pre-prepare the following:
- Cut chicken into ¼ inch thick pieces, season them with salt and pepper.
- Make slices of zucchini.
- Cut ciabatta bread diagonally as shown in the video.
- Make 1 inch thick pieces of link sausage.
- Soak garlic in 3 table spoon olive oil in a bowl.
Begin to cook with Chef Pellegrini:
Grilling chicken breast, zucchini and ciabatta bread:
- Place ½ leaf of fresh sage on each piece of chicken.
- Slice 1 piece of bacon or pancetta each piece of chicken
- Roll up chicken pieces.
- On skewer, slide on chicken, sausage, ½ leaf of sage, and rolled piece of bacon or pancetta. Repeat three times on each skewer.
- Place skewers and rosemary sprigs in glass pan and drizzle with olive oil. Roll skewers around to completely cover with oil.
- Sprinkle salt and freshly grounded pepper on the skewers.
- Place skewers directly on grill and rotate periodically to prevent them from burning.
- Place the grilled chicken on the dish and pour olive oil on it.
- Drizzle olive oil on sliced zucchini and season with salt and pepper.
- Place them on grill and flip till they are cooked.
- Brush sliced ciabatta bread with olive oil soaked in garlic.
- Place bread grill, flip and brush other side of bread with olive oil.
- Grill bread thoroughly.
To serve:
- Lay skewers across serving plate.
- Place zucchini in two corners.
- Stack ciabatta slices in other corners.
- Garnish with rosemary and sage.
- Drizzle with olive oil.
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