Main courses
Greek chicken souvlaki with tzatziki
Chicken skewers marinated with lemon, garlic and oregano are served with pita bread, tomato and fresh tzatziki.
Servings in this printout: 4
Ingredients
- 700 g boneless chicken thigh filletsdiced
- 3 tbsp olive oilfor the marinade
- 1 piece lemon juice
- 2 piece a clove of garliccrushed
- 1 tbsp dried oregano
- 1 tsp salt
- 250 g Greek yogurtfor the tzatziki
- 0.5 piece cucumbergrated
- 1 piece a clove of garlicfor the tzatziki
- 4 piece pita bread
- 2 piece tomatocut into wedges
Method
- Mix oil, lemon juice, crushed garlic, oregano and salt. Add the chicken and let it marinate in the fridge for at least 20 minutes.
- Grate the cucumber and squeeze out the excess liquid. Mix with yogurt and crushed garlic. Cool down.
- Thread the chicken onto the skewers. Grill or fry in a hot pan for 10-12 minutes, turning, until the chicken is cooked.
- Heat the pita bread and serve the skewers with tomato and tzatziki.
Nutrition per serving
Nutrition values are approximate estimates, not laboratory analyses. Products and portion size affect the result.
- Net carbs
- 30.85 g
- Total carbohydrates (incl. fibre and polyols)
- 34.17 g
- Protein
- 43.6 g
- Fat
- 20.67 g
- GL estimate
- about 20 / serving
Confidence · Low Some values or assumptions in the calculation are uncertain.
The calculation also uses comparison values from similar foods or food groups. Small amounts of carbohydrate were left out of the calculation.
Estimate details and sources ↗
How was the estimate calculated?
The serving’s GL is calculated from ingredient data. Confidence describes the evidence behind the calculation. Your blood sugar response may vary.
- lemon juice · Food group average
- Greek yogurt · Food group average
- cucumber · Food group average
- pita bread · Food group average
- tomato · Comparison value
Calculated ingredient-based estimate per serving, not a measurement of the prepared meal. All supported positive carbohydrate amounts are included. An unmatched individual portion under 1 g available carbohydrate per serving may be omitted only while all such portions total less than 2 g per serving; the omitted amount is disclosed. This is an editorial tolerance, not a clinical precision limit.
Small portions omitted: 0.4 g available carbohydrate per serving.
Research sources and technical details
Source names and technical notes appear in their original form.
- lemon juice ·
fruit-category-mean-gi-51 · afcd-F004726-2026-10-24 - Greek yogurt ·
dairy-category-mean-gi-35 · fineli-34611-2026-10-24 - cucumber ·
vegetables-category-mean-gi-66 · fineli-346-2026-10-24 - pita bread ·
bread-category-mean-gi-64 · fineli-1056-2026-10-24 - tomato ·
tomato-raw-cooked-sauce-analogue-gi-22 · fineli-352-2026-10-24
Carbohydrate data sources
- Chicken, thigh, lean flesh, raw · Available-carbohydrate value from AFCD Release 3; FSANZ attribution and CC BY-SA 3.0 Australia terms apply.
- Oliiviöljy · Available-carbohydrate value from THL Fineli Rel20; CC BY 4.0.
- Juice, lemon · Available-carbohydrate value from AFCD Release 3; FSANZ attribution and CC BY-SA 3.0 Australia terms apply.
- Garlic, peeled, fresh, raw · Available-carbohydrate value from AFCD Release 3; FSANZ attribution and CC BY-SA 3.0 Australia terms apply.
- Oregano, dried · Available-carbohydrate value from AFCD Release 3; FSANZ attribution and CC BY-SA 3.0 Australia terms apply.
- Kreikkalainen jogurtti, 7 % · Available-carbohydrate value from THL Fineli Rel20; CC BY 4.0.
- Kurkku · Available-carbohydrate value from THL Fineli Rel20; CC BY 4.0.
- VAALEA LEIPÄ, PITALEIPÄ · Available-carbohydrate value from THL Fineli Rel20; CC BY 4.0.
- Tomaatti · Available-carbohydrate value from THL Fineli Rel20; CC BY 4.0.
GI and calculation sources
- International tables of glycemic index and glycemic load values 2021: a systematic review · fruit category mean; used only as a broad tamarind-paste analogue (Low)CATEGORY_MEAN
- International tables of glycemic index and glycemic load values 2021: a systematic review · Category mean, not a measured GI for the recipe's cream cheese. (Low)CATEGORY_MEAN
- International tables of glycemic index and glycemic load values 2021: a systematic review · Very broad category proxy. It may poorly represent individual non-starchy vegetables and is shown with low confidence. (Low)CATEGORY_MEAN
- International tables of glycemic index and glycemic load values 2021: a systematic review · bread category mean; product and processing variation is substantial (Low)CATEGORY_MEAN
- International tables of glycemic index and glycemic load values 2021: a systematic review · GI 22 was measured for whole raw tomato, not cooked tomato sauce. (Moderate)ANALOG
Notes
- If you use wooden skewers, soak them in water for 30 minutes before grilling.