🇱🇧 Lebanon
Shish Taouk
The Sunday-barbecue king of Lebanon: cousins around the manoual, bread flattening the skewers, toum disappearing fast.
🔪 Prep: 20 min🔥 Cook: 15 min📈 Difficulty: Easy
Cooking for
4 people
✨ What makes it special
Lemon-yogurt marinade with plenty of garlic and paprika; served in markouk with toum and pickles, pressed till crisp.
Ingredients
- 800 gchicken breast, cubed
- 4 tbspyogurt
- 6 clovesgarlic, crushed
- 1 lemon, juiced
- 1 tsppaprika
- ½ tspwhite pepper
- 3 tbspolive oil
- to tastetoum, pickles, and markouk to serve
Method
- 1
Marinate the chicken in yogurt, garlic, lemon, oil, and spices — at least 4 hours.
- 2
Thread onto skewers, not too tight, so the heat reaches everywhere.
- 3
Grill over hot charcoal, turning until charred outside and just cooked through.
- 4
Rest the skewers wrapped in bread so it drinks the juices.
- 5
Serve with toum, pickles, and fries; roll and press for sandwiches.
🍽 On your table
How this dish looks served for 4