Heavy on the lemon, heavy on the garlic, these air fryer chicken skewers are an easy and delicious walk-away recipe, seasoned to your liking for that perfect char.
1. Leave out butter to soften.
2. Wash rice thoroughly. Cook rice.
3. Mince garlic. Cut chicken thighs into cubes and in a bowl, season with salt, pepper, minced garlic, lemon zest, onion powder, garlic powder, paprika, and olive oil. Skewer chicken pieces. Line up chicken skewers in air fryer and cook at 400F for 18-20min, flipping them halfway through.
4. In a bowl mix softened butter and all sauce ingredients together (salt, pepper, garlic powder, onion powder, paprika, pinch of sugar, lemon juice, lemon pepper seasoning). If butter is still too firm you may heat in microwave in pulses of 5 seconds. Lather lemon pepper sauce on chicken skewers.
5. Cut 4 nori sheets into halves.
6. Assemble musubi by filling 2/3 of your musubi mold with cooked rice. Sprinkle furikake. Press mold down all the way then release the outside mold while pressing down. The rice shape should pop out. Place a chicken skewer on top (optional but helpful, you may ‘twist’ to loosen the chicken from the skewer beforehand to help remove later). Wrap with nori sheet with the ‘shiny’ side outside and ‘rough’ side inside. Remove skewer.
7. Enjoy!
