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Chicken Shish Kebab With Homemade Flatbread

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@cheese.and.han | Hannah
(IC: instagram)
2 portions
2 hr 20 min
As the weather is getting milder, I decided to dust off my BBQ and cook up some kebabs! I absolutely love this recipe for chicken shish kebabs and make it a couple of times a month. It's relatively healthy, especially if you add lots of salad and low fat yoghurt, but it also packs a serious punch in the flavour stakes so feels like a treat, even though it is healthy.
I've included the cooking instructions here for a domestic grill and a griddle pan to cook the chicken and flatbreads as I know most of you wont be as mad as me getting out your BBQs already - but note that these can both easily be cooked on the BBQ.
Chicken Shish Kebab With Homemade Flatbread
Recipe details
Ingredients
For the kebabs
- 2 large chicken breasts
- 1 tbsp smoked paprika
- 2 tsps cumin
- Juice ½ lemon
- 2 tbsps Greek yoghurt
- 1 clove garlic, grated
- ½ tsp salt
- Drizzle olive oil
- 1 tbsp pomegranate molasses (optional)
For the flatbreads (makes 8 but extras can easily be frozen)
- 500 g / 3 cups plain flour
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 2 tsp salt
- 1 sachet (7g) fast action yeast
- 250 mL / 1 cup warm water
Instructions
- Cut the chicken into big chunks, around an inch or so in size. Mix together all the marinade ingredients and mix with the chicken cubes - leave for a couple of hours (or overnight) in the fridge for the flavours to infuse and the yoghurt to tenderise the chicken.
- An hour before dinner, start making the flat breads. Mix the yeast with the warm water, and then pour the mixture into the flour. Mix roughly to combine into a shaggy dough. Add the salt and olive oil and begin kneading. Knead for around 5 minutes, until the dough is smooth. Add to a clean bowl, cover with a tea towel and leave somewhere relatively warm for around an hour until roughly doubled in size.
- At dinner time, take your dough and knock it back. Split it into 8 pieces and roll them into balls. Take each ball of dough in turn, and roll out into a rough oval shape. These don't need to be perfect by any stretch - but they should be around 1 cm thick. You can add toppings at this point if you like - crispy onions, fennel or nigella seeds work really well. At this point you can freeze any extra balls of dough to be used another day.
- Next, thread your chicken onto skewers and grill on a moderate heat, rotating every couple of minutes until charred and cooked through.
- Whilst the chicken is cooking, cook the flatbreads. Warm a griddle pan to a high to moderate heat. Add a rolled out flatbread (you don't need any oil) and cook for a minute or two until it starts to bubble. Turn it over at this point and cook the other side. Store somewhere warm until the remaining flatbreads are cooked.
- Serve up the chicken and flatbreads with yoghurt, chopped red onions and parsley. Enjoy!
Published February 24th, 2021 12:12 PM
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My mouth is watering . . . Would you be mad if I added garlic yogurt sauce? Next week, when I get a day off. Thanks for sharing your recipe! Pinned. ❤
Oh my goodness I think I need to make this for dinner as a regular treat for international dinner date💙
I may have some tazuki yogurt sauce on the side:D & a nice fresh salad what do you think Hannah? I know its not Turkish but its a little close enough I hope :)
What a easy delicious receipe for chicken. Wish me luck on making the flat bread :D