Smokey succulent pork pieces, heated onions, cooling cucumber, sweet tomatoes and fresh crisp cabbage all snuggled inside a warm toasty pitta and finished off with a sprinkling of parsley and squeeze of lemon.
Course Main Course
Cuisine Greek
Keyword greek, pork, souvlaki
Prep Time 10minutes
Cook Time 30minutes
Marinating Time 1hour
Total Time 40minutes
Servings 4
Calories 184kcal
Author Dimitra
Ingredients
MARINADE
500gPork shoulder or tenderloincut into cubes
Olive oilmake sure all your meat is coated
Juice of 1 lemon
1cloveGarlicgrated
Salt and pepper
2-3Tbsp.dried oregano
SALAD
1Red onion finely chopped
2Large tomatoes cubed or 20 cherry tomatoes sliced
1Large cucumber cut into small pieces
1/2white cabbage shredded
1handful fresh parsley chopped
TO SERVE
Greek Cypriot pitta breadas many as you need per
1 Lemon
Instructions
MARINADE
Add all your marinade ingredients to your pork and massage it all in
If you are cooking it in the next 1-2 hours leave your meat covered and at room temperature to let the flavours penetrate. If you are marinating your meat the night before store your meat covered and in the fridge and take it out of the fridge an hour or two before you are going to cook it so your meat comes to room temperature. The reason I like my meat to be at room temperature is because if it is cold and goes straight on to the hot bbq my meat will get a shock from the dramatic change in temperature and tighten up and make the meat dry and tough, so an hour or two out the fridge makes a huge difference
BBQING
Add your meat to your skewers then put them on the bbq turning every few minutes so they cook evenly on both sides, then put them in a clean tray and cover with foil so they stay warm whilst you get everything else sorted
Heat your pittas on your bbq for 1 minute, turning after 30 seconds so both sides are evenly heated. Then wrap them in a clean towel to stay warm
SALAD
Cut all your salad so they are bite size pieces. I like to do this whilst my meat is marinating so when my meat and pitta are cooked I don't waste any time I can get straight to eating my delicious souvlakia piping hot
ASSEMBLING
Take your meat off of your skewers
Open your pitta across the longest edge to form a pocket
Add your meat to the bottom of your pitta, then onions, cabbage, cucumbers, tomatoes and finally parsley and if you want to take it to the next level add a squeeze of lemon to freshen everything up and make everything taste phenomenal