🍽️ Shish Tawook Platter

Name: Shish Tawook Platter
Total time: 50 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Levant · Lebanon
Ingredients: 600 g chicken breast, in cubes; 120 g plain yogurt; 3 garlic cloves, crushed; Juice of 1 lemon; 500 g potatoes, cut into fries; 1 tbsp vegetable oil; 100 g garlic sauce (toum); 4 pita breads

Origin: Levant · Lebanon

968kcal

per serving · 450 g

215kcal

per 100 g

68 gProtein15 g / 100 g

50 gFat11 g / 100 g

63 gCarbs14 g / 100 g

A shish tawook platter is the full restaurant plate: grilled skewers of chicken marinated in yogurt, garlic and lemon, served with a pile of fries, a pot of toum garlic sauce and warm pita. Pickles and a little salad often come alongside. The chicken is juicy and garlicky, and the platter is large enough to be a full, hearty meal.

Diets

✓

No porkfor halal, the meat must be halal-slaughtered

✓

High protein15 g protein per 100 g — 28% of the calories

Not vegetarianbecause of: chicken

Not veganbecause of: chicken, yogurt

Contains glutenbecause of: pita bread

Contains dairybecause of: yogurt

Not keto14 g carbs per 100 g

Allergens

Contains (in a typical recipe):

⚠ Gluten ⚠ Eggs ⚠ Milk

What it is made of

chickengarlicyogurtlemonfriesgarlic saucepita bread

Recipe

4 servings50 min

Ingredients

600 g chicken breast, in cubes
120 g plain yogurt
3 garlic cloves, crushed
Juice of 1 lemon
500 g potatoes, cut into fries
1 tbsp vegetable oil
100 g garlic sauce (toum)
4 pita breads

Method

Marinate the chicken with yogurt, garlic, lemon and salt for at least 2 hours.
Toss the potatoes with the oil and salt and bake at 220 °C for 30 minutes, turning once.
Thread the chicken on skewers and grill 10–12 minutes until cooked through.
Plate the skewers with the fries, garlic sauce and warm pita.

How to make it lighter

Oven-bake the fries instead of deep-frying them.
Swap the fries for salad or grilled vegetables.
Keep the garlic sauce to one tablespoon; it is very rich in oil.

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.

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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 →