Meze #4 Chicken Souvlakia

Welcome to Meze #4 - Chicken Souvlakia...

Chicken Souvlakia on Calamata Olive Gramalata

This is one of my favorite Meze protein dishes... like all things Meze it's small bites, big flavors and OH-SO-EASY!

Let's look at the ingredients and break it down down down...

Chicken Souvlakia 
 Ingredients:

• 4 Skinless Chicken Breasts cut into filet strips
• 1/4 Cup Olive Oil
• Lemon Juice (approximately one lemon)
• 3 - 4 Tablespoons Honey
• 3 Tablespoons Stoney Mustard
• 2 Tablespoons Minced Sage
• 1 Tablespoon Paprika
• 3 Bay Leaves
• 2 Teaspoons Kosher Salt

And now for the Method...

Olive Oil, Lemon Juice, Honey, and Stoney Mustard

Combine the olive oil, lemon juice, honey and mustard, then...

Adding Sage

Add the sage and stir...

Mix it all up!

Then finish with the paprika, bay leaves and Kosher salt...

Mix this up too!

Add the trimmed chicken, make sure it's all covered and let it sit for at least an hour...

Marinating Chicken with a piece of wayward Parsley

After the chicken has had a chance to marinate, heat your grill to medium-high and grill. Since the pieces are small, they will cook fast, WATCH THEM. There's nothing worse than dry, chewy, overcooked chicken... well there are probably other things worse, but for the sake of this post... DON'T OVER COOK THE CHICKEN...

Grilling the Chicken

Meze #5 is going to be the chicken base - Olive Gramalata... but in the mean time isn't this beautiful served with the Grilled Zucchini of Meze #2?

Souvlakia Chicken on a bed of Calamata Olive Gramalata and Grilled Zucchini

Hope you're starting to see how the Meze dishes are building up to create a fun, easy, and delicious party spread! To refresh... here are the links to all of them posted so far:

1. Entertaining Meze Style
2. Meze Cheese Board a Trois 
3. Fried Hallaumi Cheese
4. Meze #2 Grilled Zucchini
5. Tzatziki
6. Meze #3 Zucchini Fritters

STAY-TUNED FOR Olive Gramalata - Meze #5!