📋 Greek Chicken Souvlaki Recipe

Greek chicken souvlaki wrapped in pita with tomatoes, red onion, tzatziki and parsley, wrapped in paper on black plate

5 from 6 votes

📋 Greek Chicken Souvlaki Recipe

This Greek Chicken Souvlaki is very easy to make with only a few pantry ingredients, requires no marinating time and tastes like you ordered from a restaurant! You can cook it on the stove top or on the grill, eat it as a souvlaki wrap with pita bread, on a bed of rice or on it's own, dipped in tzatziki sauce. It's also Weight Watchers friendly!

Course dinner, Main Course, main dish

Cuisine Greek, Mediterranean

Keyword chicken, greek, souvlaki, wrap

Prep Time 25 minutes

Cook Time 15 minutes

Total Time 40 minutes

Servings skewers

Calories 127kcal

Author Terri Gilson

Ingredients

5-6 chicken breasts
1 tbsp dried oregano
2 tablespoon lemon juice, from concentrate
¼ cup olive oil
¼ tsp white pepper
½ tsp garlic powder
1 teaspoon salt

Garnish

fresh lemon wedges

Souvlaki Pita Wrap

8 pitas * white or whole wheat
16 tablespoon tzaiziki sauce Tzatziki recipe: https://foodmeanderings.com/easy-tzatziki-sauce/
½ whole red onion, chopped
8 sprigs fresh parsley
4 fresh chopped tomatoes * I use Roma
1 tablespoon dried oregano

US Customary - Metric

Instructions

For Souvlaki Chicken Skewers

Cut chicken into strips.
Put chicken onto skewers. *If you are grilling these on an outdoor BBQ grill, you'll want to soak them for 10 minutes in cold water first (so they don't catch on fire).
Continue to add chicken pieces to skewers until they are all gone. You should get about 8 skewers. Then add skewers to a long shallow dish. I use a 9X13 baking pan *You can use smaller skewers for the pita wraps and longer skewers for the plain souvlaki
Mix garlic powder, lemon juice, oil, salt, white pepper and oregano together, then stir and pour over souvlaki skewers. Rotate to ensure skewers are well coated in the marinade.
Add skewers to non-stick fry pan, cooking as many as you can fit at once (usually about 4 per frying pan).
Fry over medium heat on stovetop or on grill, turning periodically until lightly browned on all sides, for about 12-15 minutes or until cooked through (no longer pink).

Garnish

If you want as stronger lemon flavor, drizzle additional fresh lemon juice on top.

For Souvlaki Pita Wrap

Add 2 tablespoon of tzatziki sauce (https://foodmeanderings.com/easy-tzatziki-sauce/) to pita, as well as red onions, and parsley as desired. * Remove meat from skewer
Wrap as shown in VIDEO "How to wrap a souvlaki" : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qo7DzmllzWA * I also fold mine over at the top and you can either fold or twist at the bottom
Sprinkle with additional dried oregano, if desired.

Notes

🔢WW Points

This souvlaki wrap is Weight Watchers friendly @ 8 WW points as a wrap (using my WW friendly Tzatziki Sauce) on my plan. You can click HERE to find out how much it is on your personal WW plan!

*NOTE: When I calculated the WW points in this recipe, I only accounted for ½ of the oil, as that's all the gets absorbed.

🎥 Video: How to wrap a souvlaki

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Nutrition Facts

📋 Greek Chicken Souvlaki Recipe

Amount Per Serving (1 skewer)

Calories 127 Calories from Fat 72

% Daily Value*

Fat 8g12%

Saturated Fat 1g6%

Trans Fat 1g

Cholesterol 36mg12%

Sodium 66mg3%

Potassium 223mg6%

Carbohydrates 1g0%

Fiber 1g4%

Sugar 1g1%

Protein 12g24%

Vitamin A 28IU1%

Vitamin C 2mg2%

Calcium 13mg1%

Iron 1mg6%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

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