Hen Souvlaki Bowls – Mel’s Kitchen Cafe

These tasty hen souvlaki bowls are loaded with lemon hen skewers, roasted veggies, tzatziki, hummus, feta, and garlic rice!

That is the meal of my goals.

Hen Souvlaki Marinade

There’s a lot happening in these hen souvlaki bowls! (In a great way.) Nevertheless, with a couple of minutes of prep time, they arrive collectively shortly and simply, particularly in case you make use of some retailer purchased hacks, which we’ll get to in a minute.

First, the hen!

Hen souvlaki is a Greek-inspired dish that includes marinating hen in a mix of lemon juice, olive oil, garlic, oregano, and some different easy substances.

The hen is reduce into bite-size items, threaded onto skewers and grilled. It’s flavorful, juicy, and so, so good!

Toppings and Sauces for Hen Souvlaki Bowls

The sky is the restrict for the way and what to serve the tender hen souvlaki with! The recipe contains my favourite variation:

• Garlic butter rice (hoo-boy, so good)
• Roasted zucchini, bell peppers and pink onions (can simply prepare dinner the veggies in an air fryer – particulars under ⬇️)
• Tzatziki sauce
• Hummus
• Crumbled feta
• Flatbread
• Different toppings: cherry tomatoes, avocados, and many others

I’ve included selfmade recipes within the notes of the recipe for tzatziki and hummus, however let me let you know, these are two optimum alternatives to let a retailer purchased seize prevent a while (and there are some scrumptious choices for each sauces on the market within the wild).

Change up the toppings to your liking. Add, subtract, delete, multiply. No matter it takes to honor your style buds and make you enthusiastic about dinner.

These bowls are solely pretty much as good because the stuff you pile in there! So comply with your coronary heart, and they are going to be DELICIOUS.

Greek-inspired meals are my jam. I like the flavors. I like the freshness. I like the flatbread and feta that nearly all the time (ought to) accompany. I like all of it.

These hen souvlaki bowls are proper up there with a few of my favourite Greek meals ever! They’re most positively “final meal” kind of yummy.

Don’t let the lengthy checklist of parts put you off; it’s a easy meal with tons of taste that comes collectively shortly with a little bit of prep and planning. I promise you’ll be so, so glad you made them!

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Hen Souvlaki Bowls

Yield: 6 servings

Prep Time: 30 minutes minutes

Prepare dinner Time: 20 minutes minutes

Marinating Time: 2 hours hrs

Whole Time: 2 hours hrs 50 minutes minutes

Hen:

• ¼ cup olive oil
• 2 tablespoons contemporary lemon juice
• 2 tablespoons pink wine vinegar
• 1 teaspoon dried oregano
• 2 cloves garlic, finely minced
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 ½ to 2 kilos boneless, skinless hen breasts or thighs, reduce into 1-inch items

Rice + Veggies:

• 2 tablespoons olive oil
• 2 small zucchini or yellow squash (or a combo), diced
• 1 giant bell pepper, cored and diced
• 1 medium pink onion, reduce into 1/2- to 1-inch items
• Salt and pepper
• Scorching, cooked rice, for serving (non-compulsory – see observe for my fave garlic rice recipe)

Toppings + Sauce Concepts:

• Tzatziki, retailer purchased or selfmade (see observe)
• Hummus, retailer purchased or selfmade (see observe)
• Crumbled feta cheese
• Pickled pink onions
• Diced avocados
• Diced tomatoes
• Pita or flatbread, to serve alongside (see observe)

Prepare dinner ModeForestall your display from going darkish

• For the hen, whisk collectively olive oil, lemon juice, pink wine vinegar, oregano, garlic and salt. Place the hen in a dish or resealable bag. Pour the marinade over the hen, toss to coat, cowl (or seal the bag), and refrigerate for 2 hours or as much as 8 hours.

• Thread the hen items onto skewers. Grill over medium-high warmth, flipping as soon as, till the hen is cooked via, 6 to eight minutes. Tent the hen skewers with foil and let relaxation for five to 7 minutes earlier than serving.

• For the veggies, preheat the oven to 425 levels F. Toss the greens with olive oil and sprinkle calmly with salt and pepper. Organize in a single layer on a half sheet pan. Roast within the oven for 15 to twenty minutes till golden and crisp tender. (See observe for air fryer directions.)

• Slide the hen items off the skewers. Serve the hen with rice, roasted veggies, and any or all the sauce and topping solutions.

Veggies: change up the veggies nevertheless you want – many various greens would work right here: broccoli, cauliflower, mushrooms, and many others. Slightly than cooking them on the stovetop, the greens may be tossed with olive oil, salt and pepper and roasted within the oven (400 levels for quarter-hour) or cooked in an air fryer (400 levels for 10 to fifteen minutes). 
Rice: this garlic butter rice is implausible in these hen souvlaki bowls. Begin the rice earlier than placing the hen on the grill to maximise time.
Tzatziki: the tzatziki sauce recipe on this publish is a straightforward selfmade choice. 
Hummus: selfmade hummus recipe right here. 
Flatbread: a number of selfmade recipes right here – flatbread, simple yogurt flatbread, sourdough flatbread, selfmade pita bread. 

Creator: Mel

Course: Foremost Course

Delicacies: American, Greek

Technique: Air Fryer, Bake, Grilled, Stovetop

Serving: 1 serving (contains hen and greens), Energy: 272kcal, Carbohydrates: 5g, Protein: 25g, Fats: 17g, Saturated Fats: 3g, Ldl cholesterol: 73mg, Sodium: 525mg, Fiber: 1g, Sugar: 3g