A garlicky yogurt marinade pulls double duty in souvlaki-inspired pork skewers

By CHRISTOPHER KIMBALL

In Greece, skewers of garlicky nutrient called souvlaki are sold connected thoroughfare corners, successful restaurants and astatine the beach, served blistery disconnected the grill to beryllium enjoyed portion retired and about.

Though a yogurt marinade isn’t accepted for pork souvlaki, successful this look from our cookbook “ Milk Street 365: The All-Purpose Cookbook for Every Day of the Year,” we instrumentality vantage of the tenderizing effects the cultured dairy has connected meat. The operation of lactic acerb and calcium loosens the operation of the proteins, tenderizing the meat. Flavored with reddish vino vinegar, oregano, ail and brackish and pepper, the yogurt pulls treble work arsenic a creamy, tangy sauce.

Easy-to-source pork tenderloin is trimmed of its metallic skin, halved lengthwise and chopped into chucks earlier being tossed with the yogurt mixture. After marinating, the pork is threaded onto skewers with sweet-tart Campari oregon cocktail tomatoes. Zucchini chopped into chunks works nicely, excessively — oregon adjacent a combination. Rather than grilling, we determination the cooking indoors and broil the skewers until the vegetables blister and the nutrient chars.

Enjoy close disconnected the skewer, implicit a furniture of atom oregon orzo pilaf, oregon stuffed into warmed pita. Serve with the yogurt condiment and citrus wedges.

Souvlaki-Inspired Pork Skewers

Start to finish: 30 minutes

Servings: 4

Ingredients:

¾ cupful plain whole-milk Greek yogurt

2 tablespoons reddish vino vinegar

2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil

1 tablespoonful chopped caller oregano

3 mean ail cloves, finely grated

Kosher brackish and crushed achromatic pepper

1¼-pound pork tenderloin, trimmed of metallic skin, halved lengthwise and chopped into 1-inch chunks

8 Campari oregon cocktail tomatoes (about 1½ inches) OR 1 mean zucchini, halved lengthwise and chopped into ½-inch pieces OR a combination

Directions:

Set a ligament rack successful a broiler-safe rimmed baking expanse and mist it with cooking spray. In a mean bowl, disturbance unneurotic the yogurt, vinegar, oil, oregano, ail and 1 spoon each brackish and pepper. Measure ¼ cupful of the substance into a tiny vessel and disturbance successful 1 tablespoonful water; acceptable speech for serving.

Add the pork to the mean vessel and premix until evenly coated. Thread the pork, alternating with the tomatoes, onto 4 8- to 10-inch metallic skewers. Place the skewers connected the prepared rack, spacing them evenly apart. Let basal astatine country somesthesia portion the broiler heats.

Heat the broiler with a rack astir 4 inches from the element. Broil the skewers until lightly charred, 4 to 6 minutes. Remove from the oven, flip and broil until charred connected the 2nd sides, different 4 to 6 minutes. Serve with the yogurt sauce.

Optional garnish: Lemon wedges