Piri piri chicken pittas
Portuguese-style spicy chicken in pitta with lettuce and cooling yoghurt.
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Ingredients
- Chicken breast fillets300 g
- Piri piri marinade50 g
- Pitta breads4 pittas
- Lettuce1 lettuce
- Natural yoghurt100 g
Also uses from the cupboard: vegetable oil, table salt, ground black pepper. Missing any? You can add them to your shop on the shopping list.
Usually contains: Gluten, Milk.
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Estimated from typical ingredient values, counting a teaspoon of cooking oil for each portion. Children's portions are smaller.
Method
- Slice the chicken into strips and toss with the piri piri marinade.300 g chicken breast fillets50 g piri piri marinade
- Heat a little oil in a frying pan over a medium-high heat and fry the chicken for 6 to 8 minutes, turning, until charred at the edges and cooked through with no pink.
- Toast the pittas until they puff up and cut along one edge to open a pocket. Shred the lettuce.4 pittas1 lettuce
- Fill the pittas with lettuce and chicken and finish with a spoon of yoghurt.100 g natural yoghurt
A squeeze of lemon over the chicken just before stuffing lifts all the flavours.
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