Lamb souvlaki pitta
Marinated lamb is threaded onto skewers, barbecued to perfection, then served in a lightly toasted pitta bread with yoghurt sauce, red onions and tomatoes.
Ingredients
Serves: 8
- 1kg lamb, cut into 2cm cubes
- For the Marinade
- 125ml olive oil
- 1 medium lemon, juiced
- 1 teaspoon salt
- freshly ground black pepper to taste
- 1 teaspoon dried oregano
- 1 tablespoon dried mint
- 1 clove garlic, chopped
- For the sauce
- 500g plain yoghurt
- 1 cucumber, grated
- 4 cloves garlic, finely chopped
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1/2 teaspoon dried oregano
- salt and pepper to taste
- 8 pitta breads
- 1 red onion, thinly sliced
- 1 tomato, thinly sliced
Method
Prep:30min ›
Cook:20min ›
Extra time:2hr marinating ›
Ready in:2hr50min
- Make the marinade by mixing together 125ml oil, lemon juice, salt, pepper, oregano, mint and garlic. Pour over the lamb and mix well, cover and chill for at least 2 hours.
- Make the sauce, mix together the yoghurt, cucumber, garlic, 2 tablespoons oil, oregano, salt an pepper. Let sit for 2 hours.
- Preheat a barbecue or grill. Thread the lamb onto skewers and grill for 10 minutes, turning once or to your degree of doneness.
- Scatter the pitta breads with olive oil and barbecue or grill to warm. Serve meat on pitta bread with red onion, tomato and yoghurt sauce.
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Reviews in English (4)
Great recipe. Another uncomplicated Greek dish. But do make sure the cucumber is dry - squeeze in a tea towel to get rid of all the juice or the sauce will end up runny. - 07 Sep 2013
Altered ingredient amounts. I only had about 400g of stir fry beef strips in the house, so I halved the marrinade. I also put rocket in the pitta bread. Great recipe! - 08 Jun 2010 (Review from Allrecipes AU | NZ)
Absolutely loved this recipe but I played around with the tzatziki a little, I added about half a lemon's juice and added another cucumber. Also I didnt use mint on the lamb. In future I would only use 2 or 3 cloves of garlic max. 4 was a bit much - even my dog couldn't be around me for a few days I only had a half an hour to marinade but all the flavours came through perfectly. My party of 7 can't stop raving about how great this meal was and it was so easy to make. This one's a keeper! Thanks so much!!! - 25 Jan 2012 (Review from Allrecipes AU | NZ)