Recipe: Tasty Chicken Souvlaki with Tzatziki sauce

Chicken Souvlaki with Tzatziki sauce. Chicken souvlaki is another word for seasoned Greek kabobs and they make a nice appetizer when dipped into homemade tzatziki sauce. Chicken Souvlaki features the fresh-tasting combination of lemon juice, garlic, and olive oil that is so prevalent in Greek cuisine. Serve it alongside a Greek salad of chunked tomatoes, cucumber, red onion, and feta cheese.

Tzatziki is a traditional Greek yogurt-based sauce flavored with lemon, garlic, and crisp cucumber. Let toddlers dip halved cucumber slices, chunks of tomato, or whole-wheat pita bread into extra tzatziki. Serve this dish with whole-wheat or flavored couscous. You can have Chicken Souvlaki with Tzatziki sauce using 17 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Chicken Souvlaki with Tzatziki sauce

1. It's of Marinade.
2. Prepare 1/4 cup of olive oil.
3. It's 2 tbsp of lemon juice.
4. You need 2 of garlic cloves, minced.
5. Prepare 1 tsp of dried oregano.
6. You need 1/2 tsp of dried dill.
7. Prepare 1/2 tsp of salt.
8. It's 1 lb of chicken breasts.
9. It's of Sauce.
10. Prepare 6 oz of Plain Greek Yogurt.
11. You need 1 tbsp of olive oil.
12. You need 1/2 of cucumber: peeled, seeded and grated.
13. You need 2 tsp of white vinegar.
14. It's 2/3 tsp of dried dill.
15. Prepare 1 of garlic cloves, minced.
16. It's 1/4 tsp of lemon juice.
17. You need pinch of salt.

Meanwhile, briefly grill pitas and keep warm. First, spread Tzatziki sauce on pita, add chicken pieces (take them off skewers first, of course) then add veggies and olives. Or they pack the cubes of meat or chicken into a warm pita with chopped tomatoes, parsley, onions, and garlicky cucumber-yogurt sauce (tzatziki). The Greeks are mad about Chicken Souvlaki.

Chicken Souvlaki with Tzatziki sauce step by step

1. Marinade::: Combine all ingredients and take chicken breasts, cut up into bite sized pieces and add to a bag, than add marinade. Let sit in refrigerator for two hours..
2. Tzatziki Sauce::: Combine all ingredients and refrigerate for up to two hours as well..
3. After Chicken is done marinating, cook on stovetop, oven or grill... Whichever you prefer. Cook chicken accordingly..

And after you've tried it, you will be too! Simple to make, loaded with classic Greek flavours: chicken marinated in lemon, garlic and dried oregano then threaded onto skewers. Served with a homemade Tzatziki, all bundled up in pita bread. Heat grill or grill pan over medium-high heat. Heat a griddle over medium-high heat.