Being an avid red meat dodger, I usually skip straight past recipes that include any. But when I received the September edition of BBC Good Food (straight to my door, don’t you love that?!) and saw the Greek section by Maria Elia, I gave it a second look. Note that Maria Elia has also published a great book called The Modern Vegetarian. Even though she isn’t a vegetarian, she believes vegetarians’ tastebuds should not be denied. She sounds like a winner to me!
The ‘Greek storecupboard’ special in the mag contains recipes for lamb souvlaki, tzatziki, and a Greek salad. After a quick once-over of the menu I figured I would be able to make the souvlaki with chicken instead…I was right! It was delicious!
Do it yourself…
Chicken souvlaki:
Marinate 2 chicken breasts in olive oil, the juice of a lemon, 1 tbsp finely chopped dill and some chopped garlic and leave it for a few hours. When it’s time to cook you can really see how the marinade has already started the infusion of flavours. You can skewer the chicken and then grill, but I just grilled the pieces as they were.
I also made the tzatziki and Greek salad then wrapped the chicken and some of the salad and tzatziki in a small wholemeal flat bread and had the rest of the salad on the side, delish! Took me right back to the Med!
Greek salad:
- cherry tomatoes, halved
- 1 cucumber, peeled, deseeded, then chopped
- 1/2 red onion, thinly sliced
- 1 tsp dried oregano
- 100g feta, cut into chunks
- olive oil – the recipe called for 4 tbsp, but I think that is far too much and used approx 1 tbsp
Place all ingredients in a large bowl and lightly season.
Tzatziki:
- 250g pot Greek yoghurt
- 1/2 cucumber, peeled and deseeded, then coarsely grated
- 1 clove garlic, crushed
- 3 tbsp chopped dill
- 2 tsp white wine vinegar
- pinch sugar
Combine all ingredients in a bowl, season with some salt and mix well. Chill for 1 hr if you have time to allow for some flavour infusion.
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