🍢 Lebanese mixed grill

Name: Lebanese mixed grill
Total time: 60 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Lebanon · Levant
Ingredients: 400 g minced lamb mixed with chopped onion and parsley (kafta); 400 g chicken breast, cubed, marinated in lemon, garlic and paprika; 400 g lamb leg, cubed; 2 onions and 3 tomatoes, quartered; 2 tbsp olive oil; 1 tsp seven-spice, salt; 4 thin pita breads; Toum (garlic sauce), to serve

Origin: Lebanon · Levant

805kcal

per serving · 350 g

230kcal

per 100 g

70 gProtein20 g / 100 g

49 gFat14 g / 100 g

21 gCarbs6 g / 100 g

A Lebanese mixed grill brings together three classic skewers: spiced lamb kafta, marinated chicken shish tawook and tender lamb cubes, grilled over charcoal with onions and tomatoes. It arrives on a platter lined with thin pita that soaks up the juices, with toum, the fluffy Lebanese garlic sauce, on the side. The meats are charred outside and juicy within.

Diets

✓

No porkfor halal, the meat must be halal-slaughtered

✓

Low-carb6 g carbs per 100 g

✓

High protein20 g protein per 100 g — 35% of the calories

Not vegetarianbecause of: lamb kofta, shish tawook, lamb cubes

Not veganbecause of: lamb kofta, shish tawook, lamb cubes

Contains glutenbecause of: pita bread

Contains dairybecause of: shish tawook

Allergens

Contains (in a typical recipe):

⚠ Gluten ⚠ Milk

What it is made of

lamb koftashish tawooklamb cubesoniontomatopita breadtoum garlic sauce

Recipe

4 servings60 min

Ingredients

400 g minced lamb mixed with chopped onion and parsley (kafta)
400 g chicken breast, cubed, marinated in lemon, garlic and paprika
400 g lamb leg, cubed
2 onions and 3 tomatoes, quartered
2 tbsp olive oil
1 tsp seven-spice, salt
4 thin pita breads
Toum (garlic sauce), to serve

Method

Marinate the chicken and lamb cubes with oil, spices and salt for at least 1 hour.
Shape the kafta mixture around flat skewers.
Thread the chicken, lamb, onions and tomatoes onto skewers.
Grill over hot charcoal, turning, until the meats are cooked through and charred at the edges.
Serve on pita with grilled vegetables and toum.

How to make it lighter

Choose more chicken tawook; it is the leanest of the three meats.
Toum is rich, so take a teaspoon rather than a spoonful.
Swap part of the bread for tabbouleh-style salad of herbs and tomato.

History

Charcoal grilling of meat skewers is an old tradition across the Levant, and Lebanese grill houses made the combined platter a restaurant staple. Today mixed grill is one of the most ordered dishes in Lebanese restaurants at home and abroad.

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Values are estimates per 100 g for a typical recipe; home and restaurant versions vary. Diets and allergens are worked out from the ingredients of a typical recipe — always check with whoever cooked the dish. Not medical advice. Nutrition data: Me Nutrition dish database v13. How we count →