how to make Cypriot style chicken skewers Cypriot food because its closer to the middle east

there's lots of spices and gorgeous herbs

we are using pitta bread with cumin lovely chicken skewers which we marinated with

coriander lemon

and a really easy salad

so

i've got some pitta bread here and this is going to be the base of the recipe and all i have done

is get normal pitta bread from the supermarket put your thumb

in the middle

and pull it apart

you don't need to use a knife or anything fancy because you are going to crumble it all up anyway

a drizzle of oil some lovely bashed up

cumin seeds sprinkle those on salt and pepper and you just need to roast them for about

ten minutes

two hundred degrees put them on the base of your platter

we are going to cover this with all different things so a lovely yoghurty dressing

the chicken

so it will absorb all the flavours

i have got lovely chicken breasts here

im just going to flavour

our chicken grab a clove of garlic

we are going to use a little bit of salt

and around a teaspoon of coriander seeds

you don't want those to be totally ground up a bit of pepper

use an unwaxed lemon

and if you cant give it a good old wash

grate in zest

and continue to give it a good old mix

what you want to do now is add enough oil to make it into quite a loose paste

to coat your chicken there you go you have got a fantastic marinade there brilliant

you want to cut your chicken breasts so they fir onto skewers we want to do strips

you want your chicken to be about the same size you want them to cook at the same time over the griddle

pour in the marinade that you made and just

toss it all together really massage the flavours into that meat

and thread them onto

your skewer now i've put my griddle pan on ready you want it to be searing hot

you can apply the same method to any joint of chicken for your summer bbq

just make sure the chicken isn't crammed together because if it's

too tightly packed

it's not going to cook

keep an eye on that we are going to make a really lovely yoghurt dressing which we are going to put

underneath the chicken

so all you need is some

mint a cucumber some seasoning

and actually my mum always puts a little bit of grated garlic grate your cucumber

just squeeze out the excess liquid you can get rid of that

grate in

half a clove of garlic

on a finer setting and then pick off some mint leaves

i'm going to chop them quite fine you don't want to be chewing on

bits of leaf this goes into the bowl as well salt pepper

mix in some yoghurt greek yoghurt best fat free

natural yoghurt is fine too that looks absolutely awesome

add a bit of extra virgin olive oil

ahh that's fantastic really

good

just have a look at your chicken

make sure you know you keep an eye on it give it a bit of love

and the last thing were going to do is make coleslaw

you just want to get

a white cabbage and

shred it as fine as you can

what you want to do now is the same but with a white onion

you can grab the lemon you used earlier

squeeze it in

just really work that lemon in season

add some really good extra virgin olive oil

work it together

your hands are your best tool the chicken is looking great

and that should be perfectly cooked

and if you are nervous

just get a knife

and cut into it a little bit make sure its not pink and

if the juices run clear from the chicken then you know you are fine if the juice

is still a bit pink and bloody

then you know just put it back on the heat so that is actually perfect so we can

turn the heat off

can finish our dish

dollop on lovely big dollops of this tzatziki and put our

chicken straight on to our

tzatziki on pitta

finish that with your coleslaw

i've got a bit of fresh coriander just run your knife through them

toss that through the slore and it just adds a lovely bit more flavour and vibrancy and makes

the whole think a little bit fresher look at that that looks awesome

scatter that over our chicken

another very sort of greek middle eastern flavour sesame seeds

just for more texture sprinkle those over the top

and there you have it my Cypriot style chicken skewers with lovely cumin crispy pitta

bread

homemade tzatziki

and a really refreshing slaw

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