🧄 Shish Tawook with Garlic Sauce

Name: Shish Tawook with Garlic Sauce
Total time: 40 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Saudi Arabia · Riyadh
Ingredients: 600 g chicken breast, in cubes; 120 g plain yogurt; Juice of 1 lemon; 1 tsp paprika; 2 garlic cloves, crushed; 120 g garlic sauce (toum); 4 pita breads; Salt and pepper

Origin: Saudi Arabia · Riyadh

707kcal

per serving · 350 g

202kcal

per 100 g

70 gProtein20 g / 100 g

35 gFat10 g / 100 g

28 gCarbs8 g / 100 g

This is the shish tawook plate as served in Riyadh grills: yogurt-and-lemon marinated chicken skewers with a generous cup of thick, white toum garlic sauce and warm pita bread. The chicken is juicy and lightly smoky, the garlic sauce sharp and creamy, and the bread is used to scoop everything up. It is a filling, popular takeaway meal.

Diets

✓

No porkfor halal, the meat must be halal-slaughtered

✓

Low-carb8 g carbs per 100 g

✓

High protein20 g protein per 100 g — 40% of the calories

Not vegetarianbecause of: chicken

Not veganbecause of: chicken, yogurt

Contains glutenbecause of: pita bread

Contains dairybecause of: yogurt

Allergens

Contains (in a typical recipe):

⚠ Gluten ⚠ Eggs ⚠ Milk

What it is made of

chickengarlic saucelemonyogurtpaprikapita bread

Recipe

4 servings40 min

Ingredients

600 g chicken breast, in cubes
120 g plain yogurt
Juice of 1 lemon
1 tsp paprika
2 garlic cloves, crushed
120 g garlic sauce (toum)
4 pita breads
Salt and pepper

Method

Marinate the chicken in yogurt, lemon, paprika, crushed garlic, salt and pepper for 2 hours.
Thread onto skewers and grill 10–12 minutes, turning, until cooked through.
Warm the pita on the grill.
Serve the skewers with the garlic sauce in a small cup and the bread on the side.

How to make it lighter

Garlic sauce is mostly oil: use a teaspoon at a time rather than the whole cup.
Have one pita instead of two.
Add a large salad of tomato, cucumber and lettuce to fill the plate.

History

Shish tawook is the Levantine and Turkish skewered chicken; the name joins şiş (skewer) with tavuk, Turkish for chicken. It became a staple of Lebanese grills and is now sold across the Middle East and the Gulf. In Saudi Arabia the plate usually comes with a large serving of garlic sauce.

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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 →