About the dish
Souvlaki are small skewers of meat – usually pork, less often chicken or lamb – marinated in olive oil, lemon juice, garlic and oregano and cooked over charcoal. It is Greece's most popular fast food: every town has stalls and tavernas called souvlatzidika, where the skewers are eaten on a plate with chips and salad, or wrapped in warm pitta with tzatziki, tomato and onion. It should not be confused with gyros, which is meat roasted on a vertical spit and shaved into thin slices. Souvlaki are also a fixture of summer barbecues.
Main ingredients
- pork shoulder
- olive oil
- lemon
- garlic
- oregano
- pitta
- tzatziki
Cyprus: In Cyprus souvlaki comes in a large pitta with salad, and at weekends bigger pieces of meat are spit-roasted as souvla.
Greece: On the street mostly as pita souvlaki – wrapped in pitta with tzatziki, tomato, onion and chips.
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