Spiedini di Pollo al Rosmarino

That’s chicken skewers with rosemary, and this is the only recipe I’ve ever prepared from a youtube video.

Ingredients:

• Chicken breasts
• Fresh rosemary
• Garlic
• Olive oil
• salt & pepper
• onion

1. Cut chicken breast into cube sized pieces.
2. If your rosemary is on long stems, peel off the bottom half of the leaves (as shown in the video), and put them aside.  I used rosemary from my garden, so my stems were a lot shorter.  So I removed all of the leaves and discarded the stems.  Instead of skewering the chicken on the stems, I used wooden skewers.
3. Combine the rosemary leaves, garlic, and olive oil in a food processer (or mordar and pestle, as shown in the video.)
4. Toss the olive oil mixture with the chicken.
5. Assemble the skewers, alternating chicken with small chunks of onion.
6. Grill the skewers on an indoor grill or in a ridged pan.   Season with salt and pepper as they cook.

Like most Italian recipes, this one is simple, straightforward, and delicious.  It uses only a few basic ingredients.  Also, it doesn’t provide exact quantities.  Most Italian recipes I’ve read assume a level of competence that American recipes do not.  I know it’s not just the language barrier…