Recipe: Perfect Grilled Chicken Souvlaki

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Grilled Chicken Souvlaki. Place the tomatoes and garlic on a large piece of. This easy Grilled Chicken Souvlaki recipe is made with a Greek-inspired marinade. Great for serving in pitas, salads or over rice.

Grilled Chicken Souvlaki Chicken souvlaki is almost always made with chunks of boneless skinless breasts, which have a marked tendency to dry out when grilled. The chicken is marinated in a simple mixture of garlic, vinegar, oil, s+p, and herbs (fresh or dried, your choice) and then grilled to crispy-outer-juicy-inner perfection. The only other thing you need to turn it into a meal is a cool and creamy tzatziki cucumber sauce, perfect for dipping, dunking, and drizzling that chicken souvlaki. You can have Grilled Chicken Souvlaki using 9 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Grilled Chicken Souvlaki

  1. Prepare 1/2 of Green Pepper.
  2. You need 1 of Tomato.
  3. You need 1 of Iceberg Lettuce.
  4. Prepare 2 of Pita Bread.
  5. Prepare 3 of Chicken Breasts.
  6. Prepare 1 of Salt.
  7. You need 1 of Pepper.
  8. It's 1/4 cup of Olive Oil.
  9. Prepare 1 oz of Tub of Greek Cucumber Dill.

Marinated grilled Chicken Souvlaki with Tzatziki Sauce is perfect tucked inside pita, served over rice, or piled on top of a crisp salad. The simple Greek chicken skewers are an easy and healthy dinner with tons of fresh flavor! Making the chicken souvlaki is dead easy, you simply mix the marinade, marinate the chicken and grill! Whenever I make this I am taken back to that trip to Greece on the streets in Plaka with the gyros with chicken, tomatoes, onions, tzatziki and the roasted red peppers.

Grilled Chicken Souvlaki instructions

  1. Clean chicken breasts..
  2. Grill chicken breasts in pan with olive oil and season with salt and pepper..
  3. Cut grilled chicken into cubes..
  4. Slice tomato and green pepper..
  5. Cut up lettuce..
  6. Put pita bread on grill or in panini maker to warm and crisp..
  7. Fill pita with grilled chicken, lettuce, tomato, green pepper, and top with dill sauce..

Remove the chicken from the marinade and add to the pan. In a medium bowl combine all the tzatziki sauce ingredients and set aside. Add chicken, coat with the marinade, squeeze out excess air, and seal the bag. In this recipe, I'm using small wooden ones. Meanwhile, briefly grill pitas and keep warm.