One Bowl Chicken Souvlaki
What’s better than chicken souvlaki? Chicken souvlaki all in one easy to make bowl recipe! Welcome to your new favorite one bowl chicken dinner.
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- 🔎 Here’s a Quick Look at this recipe
- 🌟 Why this recipe works
- 🧐 What Is Chicken Souvlaki?
- 🍅 Ingredients you need
- 📝 Ingredient notes and substitutions
- 💡 More ingredient substitution ideas
- 👩🏻🍳 How to make this recipe
- 🤔 Recipe FAQs
- 🥣 Equipment we used for this recipe
- 🍽️ What to serve with this recipe
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- One Bowl Chicken Souvlaki
🔎 Here’s a Quick Look at this recipe
- What It Is: The classic Greek chicken dish in easy to eat bowl form.
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: None! 😄
- Total Time: 15 minutes
- Servings: 4 servings
- Calories: 345 per serving
- Cook Method: Simply mixing ingredients in a bowl
- Good For: Using up leftover chicken, quick and easy lunches and suppers, cool summer meals
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🌟 Why this recipe works
I love any recipe that has one bowl or one pot in the title, because it suggests that supper is going to be a conglomeration of delicious things that are going together fast in, yep, one bowl or pot.
Less dishes to wash, more wonderful things in one bite – what’s not to love? Especially when we are talking about tangy, delicious chicken souvlaki.
Assuming you have some cooked chicken on hand (and I always have cooked chicken on hand) this comes together in 15 minutes with exactly zero cooking.
🧐 What Is Chicken Souvlaki?
Souvlaki is a Greek dish usually made with lamb, and usually cooked on skewers with a lovely yogurt sauce and some feta cheese and cucumbers and tomatoes, and eaten with pita bread.
But since I am all about the one bowl thing, I’m skipping the skewers but keeping the supporting cast of characters. And using cooked chicken for both speediness and a little variety!
And speaking of those characters, if you happen to be in a energetic mood on the day this is on the menu, you can take this supper to the next level with this super easy recipe for grilled flatbread.
It’s so simple to make, and grills up to warm toasty perfection in no time.
Or you can use naan, or pita bread. You be you.
🍅 Ingredients you need
📝 Ingredient notes and substitutions
- Chicken: Any kind of cooked chicken will work – white meat, dark meat, grilled, poached, a rotisserie chicken from the supermarket – whatever you have on hand is great.
- Yogurt: We like nonfat Greek yogurt for this recipe, but any plain yogurt will work.
- Feta Cheese: As always, we recommend the chunk feta cheese in brine for the freshest flavor.
- Capers: Look for these salty pickled buds in the condiments section of your supermarket.
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See the recipe card for full information on ingredients and quantities and nutritional information.
👩🏻🍳 How to make this recipe
STEP 1: Combine some cooked chicken, chopped cucumbers, chopped scallions, halved cherry tomatoes and a couple tablespoons of capers in a bowl.
STEP 2: Now make the easy dressing! Mix up some crumbled feta cheese and plain yogurt. You can do this by hand if you like chunky dressing or you can whirl it in a food processor if you like it smooth. Mix in some oregano.
STEP 3: Pour the dressing over the chicken mixture and toss it all up. Sprinkle it with pepper and serve it over a slice of warm pita or naan bread.
I like to put a warmed piece of bread on the bottom and pile it on top, but you can add the bread any old way you please.
You’re done. You’re happy. And you still have the whole night in front of you!
🤔 Recipe FAQs
If you have the time, my favorite way to get myself a pile of cooked chicken is to pop a few chicken breasts in the slow cooker with about 2 cups of chicken broth and let it cook for 8 hours on low. It will be amazingly tender.
Or, you can put the chicken in a pot of water, bring it to a boil and turn off the heat. Cover the pot and let the chicken cool completely. This is called poaching the chicken and again…so tender.
OR, you can buy a rotisserie chicken at your supermarket, or use leftover chicken.
Capers are tiny, unripened green flower buds of (yep!) the caper bush or Flinders rose. These buds are dried, and then pickled. They have a salty, savory flavor and they are frequently used as a seasoning or garnish in Mediterranean dishes.
You can! Swap in chick peas or cooked mushrooms for the chicken.
It can! You can make this up to a day ahead – store it in a covered container in your fridge and let it come to room temperature before you serve it up.
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🥣 Equipment we used for this recipe
These are some of my favorite kitchen tools! These are Amazon affiliate links, which means I get a little something if you buy through my links at no extra cost to you. (Which helps pay for all that bacon I keep buying! 😄) And I only share things I use and love. I’m so grateful for your support!
- Measuring Cup: We love these angled cups that show the measurements on both the inside and outside of the cup.
- Measuring Spoons: These handy magnetic spoons are not on a ring, so you can just pick the one you need.
- Cutting Board: These sturdy, dishwasher-safe cutting boards come in all different sizes.
- Bear Paws Shredder Claws: These impressive looking claws are not only perfect shredding cooked chicken or meats, they are also dishwasher safe!
- Food Processor: This all-star kitchen appliance is one of the very few that gets to live on our countertop 24/7.
- Metal Bowls: We love these lightweight bowls for everything from mixing up dough for Snickerdoodle cookies to being casual serving dishes!
- Tongs: We have this essential kitchen tool in all sizes from short to extra long.
🍽️ What to serve with this recipe
We love to start out this supper with some 5 minute hummus and that warm grilled flatbread. Some lemon ricotta potatoes make an excellent side dish.
And for dessert, let’s have some blueberry cheesecake squares!
😍 Other chicken salad recipes we love!
⭐️ We want to know what you think!
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One Bowl Chicken Souvlaki
What’s better than chicken souvlaki? Chicken souvlaki all in one easy to make bowl recipe! Welcome to your new favorite one bowl chicken dinner.
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 0 minutes
- Total Time: 15 minutes
- Yield: 4 1x
- Category: Dinner
- Method: No Cook
- Cuisine: Greek
Ingredients
- 4 cups shredded cooked chicken
- 2 large cucumbers, chopped
- 2 scallions, chopped
- 2 tablespoons capers
- 1 pint cherry tomatoes, halved
- 1/2 cup plain yogurt
- 1/2 cup crumbled feta
- 1 teaspoon oregano
- Fresh ground black pepper
- Pita bread (you could also use naan bread)
Instructions
- Combine chicken, cucumbers, scallions, capers and tomatoes in bowl.
- Mix up feta and yogurt — you can do this by hand if you like chunkier dressing or in a food processor if you like it smooth. Mix in the oregano.
- Pour dressing over chicken mixture and stir just to coat. Sprinkle with pepper and serve with pita bread. You’re done!
Notes
- Chicken: Any kind of cooked chicken will work – white meat, dark meat, grilled, poached, a rotisserie chicken from the supermarket – whatever you have on hand is great.
- Yogurt: We like nonfat Greek yogurt for this recipe, but any plain yogurt will work.
- Feta Cheese: As always, we recommend the chunk feta cheese in brine for the freshest flavor.
- Capers: Look for these salty pickled buds in the condiments section of your supermarket.
Kate, can you use sour cream instead of yogurt?
Hi Dave and yes! You can definitely use sour cream…it will be a little of a richer texture but still delicious!