Go Back

Shish Taouk Wraps

Ingredients

INGREDIENTS

    For shish taouk

    • 450 g boneless chicken
    • 12 mint leaves
    • 5 cloves garlic
    • 1 tsp tomato paste
    • 1 tsp sumac powder
    • A pinch of oregano
    • Juice of half a lemon
    • 1 tsp paprika
    • 1/2 tsp white pepper
    • 2 green chillies
    • 2 tbsp yoghurt
    • 1 tbsp olive oil
    • Salt to taste
    • Baby potatoes
    • Colored capsicum
    • Baby brinjal

    For the wrap

    • Tortillas
    • Toum sauce garlic sauce
    • Tomatoes
    • Jirjir leaves or lettuce
    • Pickled cucumber carrot etc

    Onion salad

    • Mix sliced onions chopped parsley, a little sumac powder and salt.

    Instructions

    DIRECTIONS

    • Cut the chicken breasts into small cubes.
    • Make a paste of mint leaves, garlic,tomato paste,sumac,oregano,lemon,paprika, white pepper, oil, green chillies and salt in a grinder.
    • Add yoghurt to the paste. Mix well. Check for salt.
    • Marinate the chicken pieces in this mixture and refrigerate for about 2-3 hours.
    • Take wooden skewers and soak them in water for half an hour.
    • Then skew the chicken creatively alternating with brinjal, baby potatoes etc.
    • You can either grill them in your oven or in your grill pan or frying pan till tender and nicely browned all over.
    • If you are making a wrap with this, take a tortilla and place the slightly chopped shish taouk, pickles, onion salad, tomatoes, jirjir leaves and toum sauce. Wrap them up and on a frying pan add a dash of butter and toast the wraps on all sides and serve immediately.