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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.