Hello everybody, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, chicken souvlaki. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Chicken souvlaki is another word for seasoned Greek kabobs and they make a nice appetizer when dipped into homemade tzatziki sauce. Souvlaki is usually served with tzatziki, a yogurt sauce with cucumbers. This version has more cucumber than yogurt, for a dish with crunch and freshness but few calories.
Chicken Souvlaki is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods in the world. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. Chicken Souvlaki is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They are nice and they look fantastic.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook chicken souvlaki using 13 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Chicken Souvlaki:
- Get 5 large, skinless chicken breast or 12 thighs chopped into chunks
- Prepare Red and Yellow peppers largely diced
- Make ready For the Marinade
- Make ready 4 tbsp olive oil
- Get 2 tsp dried oregano
- Get 1 tsp dried mint
- Prepare 1 tsp ground cumin
- Get 1 tsp ground coriander
- Take 1 tsp sweet paprika
- Make ready zest and juice 1 lemon
- Prepare 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- Take 4 garlic cloves, crushed
- Get 1 large sprinkle of salt and black pepper
The accompaniments are usually tomatoes, red onion and tzatziki wrapped in soft pitta bread. In some tavernas, they serve chips stuffed inside the pitta too. In this recipe, I'm using small wooden ones. Serve while still warm with some pita breads and tzatziki sauce.
Instructions to make Chicken Souvlaki:
- Chop the chicken into large chunks and place into a bowl.
- Simply add the oil, herbs and spices.
- Squeeze the lemon
- Crush the garlic
- Throw in, add salt and pepper and mix well. Leave to marinate
- Chop the pepper. When the chicken has marinated place on to skewers with layers of chicken then pepper.
- Heat a griddle on high and cook the chicken on all sides until charred.
- After they are coked through, serve with some lettuce, salad, on wraps if you like!
You can also serve the chicken souvlaki (skewers) wrapped, like a sandwich. I'm not sure where I found this recipe, but it has become one of our family favorites. It is so quick and easy to put together and does not require marinating time. This is excellent for summer meals because it's so light. Also great sliced over salad greens for a complete meal.
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