Chicken Souvlaki | Greek Inspired Chicken Skewers Cooked On The Kamado Joe Classic

Here are my super simple Greek inspired chicken skewers. So quick and easy to make and perfect for lunch or dinner!

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Today we’re making greek inspired chicken skewers I’ve got a nice easy one for you today it’s chicken skewers it’s something that’s so easy you can do it lunchtime in your lunch break if you’re working from home you’ve got barbecue in the garden you can knock this up in your lunch break i do quite often

Knock this up for myself my wife we tuck it in some flatbreads or some wraps or whatever and it’s a beautiful lunch and like i said you can knock it up in no time at all so all we need for this is some chicken thighs obviously fives work better than breasts

Because they’ve got more fat on them and keeps them nice and juicy and that fat sizzles down onto the coals creating even more flavor and then we’ve got a nice nice simple marinade of chili flakes oregano thyme paprika salt and pepper bit of olive oil and a bit of lemon and that’s it

If you’ve got rub one of your favorite rubs you can just stick that on the chicken fries but like i said i’m keeping this nice and simple i want this accessible to everybody if you’re used to maybe cooking burgers and sausages on your bbq and you want to get involved with some

Skewers don’t go and buy those pre-marinated packs from the butchers they’re full of sugar they’re going to burn if your barbecue if your coals are too hot so just follow me with this and you will not be disappointed so first things first we want to take our chicken fries

And we’re going to dice them into about an inch inch and a half cubes so don’t have to be too exact just roughly like that and just so we’ve got enough meat to thread onto those skewers and they’re nice and thick without being too thick we want them to cook nice and easily

Nice and evenly and nice and quickly so we’re looking for something like that now onto the marinade and like i said i’m keeping this nice and simple and this couldn’t be easier so we’ll start with a good few glugs of olive oil uh four tablespoons i would say

And to that we’re going to go in with a pinch of chili flakes maybe half a teaspoon depending on the strength for your chili flakes i like it quite spicy oregano a good teaspoon maybe two teaspoons of that do like a bit of omega on my chicken same with thyme i’m gonna

Go in about a teaspoon of thyme and paprika we want to give it a shake up we’re going to want about a teaspoon of paprika in there as well you can put a pinch of cumin a bit of cumin works well now we’re going to go in with some pepper about

Half a teaspoon there we go salt again we’re going to go in with about half a teaspoon of salt and we want some lemon so we’re just going to squeeze in the juice of one lemon so there’s half let’s get rid of that and the other half so we’re just gonna give that

A quick stir and that is pretty much it that is our marinade so nice and easy really really easy so now we’re just going to take our chicken and just add that into our bowl and then i always say your hands are the best tools for the job

And again that is true here we’re just going to go in and just get that marinade all over that chicken now you can’t marinade this for a few hours overnight but again i always say i do these dishes on the fly i’ll do them for lunch i’m hungry Just get it on there and get it over the fire it’s not going to make a huge difference to your dish i promise you so that’s our chicken ready for the skewers so now we’re going to grab our skewers And we’re just going to start to thread each of these bits onto the skewers be careful of your hands start with that bit there and just go through like that there’s any scraggly bits just try and fit them on the end and we want all of it into the middle of that

Skewer because we want enough room at the ends to be able to turn it obviously you want the chicken over the fire if you’ve got it right bring to the ends of each skewer you’re going to get stuff that isn’t over the fire so let’s go ahead get all this chicken

On these skewers this island that i’m working on well i’ve got my commander joe built in this is from commado space you’ve probably seen it in a few of my previous videos it is a stunning piece of kit so in the interest of transparency

I am going to be doing a lot more with kamado space in the future i’m going to be working in partnership with commander space to help promote these islands but i will only promote something that i’m very happy with now they sent me one of these to have a look at

To see whether i liked it to see whether any improvements can be made they’re constantly looking to improve and build on what they’ve already started and yeah i’ve got to say i’m really really impressed i mean there’s so much storage space for my rubs for the accessories

Underneath the camaro drone i don’t just make them for the camaro joe they do different cutouts so they’re stainless steel work top here they do different cutouts for different grills so whether it’s big green egg whether it’s um primo or any of the other kind of um camardo brands

They will have a worktop out for this and i’ve got more planned one for the big joe i believe so the bigger bbqs the bigger grills they’ve got pizza oven one planned they’ve got lots in the pipeline so like i said this is my commado space it’s got a drawer for charcoal

It’s got shelves for the accessories it’s got plenty of drawers for plenty of rubs and your fire lights and all sorts so um yeah that’s why if you see me using these more it’s because hey i love them and b it’s the start of a beautiful relationship so anyway so that’s the skewers

Pretty much done we’re just going to finish threading in these last couple of bits i’ve got the camaro joe classic three fired up i’ve got the heat deflectors in there at the minute from the previous cook so i’m just going to take those out so we over direct heat you will need

Pretty long skewers if you’re going to be doing it this way these are really long skewers i’ll put a link to them in the um in the description below no it’s not an ad i’ve had these for a few years now and i’ve just found out that they fit nicely over the gap

In the commando joe classic so like i said 200 degrees we’re going to take the heat deflectors out we’re going to stick these over the coals with the lid down turn them every now and again and we’re going to cook them to an internal temperature

Chicken is safe to eat at 73. you can take fires a little bit further so anywhere between 73 and 80 i like to take these fires off we want to get a nice bit of char on there that’s going to be extra flavour so let’s crack on get them

On and i’ll see you when they’re done Do And there we go my simple greek inspired chicken skewers cooked on the kamado joe on these very long skewers we’ve got this beautiful color on here they’ve remained nice and juicy they’ve been sizzling away they smell amazing let’s have a taste and let’s just go take one of those bits

And have a taste winner every time so simple so easy so bloody tasty so that’s my greek inspired chicken skewers on the smoking elk thanks for watching if you do enjoy these videos i don’t normally ask you but if you do enjoy them just hit that subscribe button

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