Grilled Southwestern-Style Lamb Kebabs

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Shish kebab is simply a amusive food. You devour it with breadstuff and marque small bites from its constituent parts: this wound with onion, that 1 with tomato, a 3rd with both. It's an casual crockery for festive meal parties; conscionable enactment the skewers connected the grill astir 15 minutes earlier you are acceptable to eat.

You'll request 8 agelong woody skewers, which should beryllium soaked for 30 minutes to 1 hr earlier using.

For tenderness and flavor, marinate the lamb successful the refrigerator for astatine slightest 8 hours and up to 18. Thread the kebabs connected the skewers an hr oregon 2 earlier serving, covering them with integrative wrapper oregon aluminum foil portion they travel to country temperature.

From Smoke Signals columnist Jim Shahin.

Ingredients

measuring cup

Servings: 6-8

For the marinade

2-pound boneless lamb limb oregon shoulder, trimmed of abdominous and chopped into thirty-two 1 1/4-inch chunks
8 cloves garlic, chopped
Freshly squeezed foodstuff of 2 limes (2 to 3 tablespoons)
1 spoon coarse salt
1/2 spoon freshly crushed achromatic pepper
1/4 cupful olive oil
1/2 cupful cilantro leaves, thoroughly rinsed, past coarsely chopped
1/2 mean onion, chopped into astir 1/2-inch chunks

For the kebabs

16 (peeled) pearl onions
16 cherry oregon teardrop tomatoes
4 serrano peppers, chopped successful fractional lengthwise and seeded

Nutritional Facts

Per serving (based connected 8)

Calories
170
Fat
6 g
Saturated Fat
3 g
Carbohydrates
3 g
Sodium
130 mg
Cholesterol
70 mg
Protein
24 g
Sugar
2 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

From Smoke Signals columnist Jim Shahin.

Tested by Jeffrey Donald.

Published March 20, 2012

Updated March 14, 2026