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Chicken souvlaki plate
Also known as σουβλάκι · chicken souvlaki · souvlaki kotopoulo · souvlaki merida
Chicken skewers grilled over coals, warm pita, tzatziki and tomato. Lemon and oregano do the heavy lifting.
Typical serving
520 kcal
usually 410–660 kcal
 Protein | 40 g |
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 Carbs | 41 g |
 Fat | 22 g |
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Before you start
- a griddle pan or barbecue
- marinate 2 hours ahead
- skewers — wooden ones soaked first
Ingredients
Serves 2 · dimmer marks are storecupboard
- 300gchicken thighs, boneless
- 1 tbspolive oil
- 1lemon
- 3garlic cloves
- 2 tsporegano
- 2pita breads
- 100ggreek yoghurt
- ½cucumber
- 2tomatoes
- ½red onion
- to tastesalt and pepper
Method
6 steps
chop · 5mThigh into thumb-sized pieces, all about the same size. Uneven ones mean half the skewer is dry before the rest is done.
soak · 2 hours walk awayChicken turned through lemon juice, oil, crushed garlic, oregano and salt, and into the fridge. Two hours does most of the work; overnight is no worse.
- chop · 6m
Cucumber grated coarsely, squeezed dry in a cloth, and folded into the yoghurt with a little garlic. Unsqueezed it weeps, and the tzatziki slides straight off the meat.
grill · 14mThreaded on skewers with a gap between the pieces, over a hard heat, turned every couple of minutes until charred in patches. Cut one piece open before serving: it must be white right through with no pink and juices that run clear.
rest · 3m walk awaySkewers off the heat for three minutes. Straight off the grill the juice runs out onto the plate instead of staying in the meat.
finish · 4mPitas warmed on the empty griddle, tomato and onion sliced over them, tzatziki, then the meat pushed off the skewer.
Worth knowing
Souvlaki is ancient in the plainest sense — stone barbecue trays with skewer notches survive from Santorini, seventeen centuries BC.
Skewered lean meat with a yoghurt sauce — grill cooking that adds fire, not fat.
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