Garlicky Chicken or Pork Souvlaki

Submitted by Katzen

"A very garlicky chicken souvlaki, the recipe comes from an old friend's greek mother (he had to translate it for me.) It disappears very fast - and no vampires allowed!"

 

• Ready In: 50mins
• Ingredients: 6
• Serves: 6

ingredients

• 907.18 g chicken breasts or 907.18 g pork tenderloin, cut into 1-inch cubes
• 10 garlic cloves, crushed
• 59.14 ml olive oil
• 118.29 ml lemon juice, freshly squeezed is best
• 29.58 ml oregano
• salt & fresh ground pepper, to taste (optional I don't usually add it)

directions

1. Combine everything but chicken or pork, and whisk well. Place chicken in a seal able container, and marinate overnight to 24 hours.
2. Soak skewers 30 minutes in water (so they won’t burn.).
3. Skewer meat.
4. BBQ or bake in oven until done (oven is 375 for 30-40 minutes.).

Reviews

[queenofeats]

An easy and wonderful way to make souvlaki! As I don't have a grill, I had to oven bake my chicken - this was one of the few recipes that actually bothered to include an oven option! The chicken was moist and flavorful with only about an hour in the marinade - next time I'll be better prepared and leave it overnight. It'll only get better I'm sure! One trick I found was to skewer the chicken and then lay the skewers across the short side of a 9x13 pan. Keeping the skewers across the pan while baking is a great way to catch all the drippings and give it more of that rotisserie-style flavor! Served with Recipe #39658. I'll definitely be keeping this one on hand for the future!

 

[breezermom]

The taste of this was wonderful! I was a little worried about the lemon juice and the marinating time. I started my marinade before I left for work. I grilled these for dinner. (Marinating time about 11 hours) I would not recommend marinating for that long, as some of my chicken cubes were cooked from the acid in the lemon. I'd marinate about 5 or 6 hours next time. The garlic was perfect!! These would be wonderful in a pita! Thanks for sharing. Made for PRMR tag.

 

[Misa]

The lovely tastes of both lemon and garlic were front and center on the chicken! I marinaded the chicken chunks for 4 hours and still had lots of flavor. Served with [recipe=#32448]spanakopita[/recipe]; I think next time I'll add in a side of buttered noodles, too!

 

[Shelby Jo]

Yummy! I've been looking for some new grilling recipes now that it's that season and this one was a keeper. My husband loves garlic so he especially liked it. I made exactly as directed except didn't marinate it for quite as long. Thanks for posting!

 

[2Bleu]

We made the pork version and grilled em till the thunderstorm started pouring down. We had to grab everything off the grill and finish them off in the oven. For the souvlaki, we broiled them rather than bake. The flavor is wonderful and went great with Recipe #260530. The only change we made was to use McCormicks mediterranean spiced sea salt (for the s/p oregano) and to marinade the meat for just 2 hrs. Thanks for sharing the recipe. :)