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Grilled Chicken Gyros
with Tzatziki Sauce

 

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Recipe Information

Ingredients:
Tzatziki Sauce (Greek Yogurt and Cucumber Sauce)

3 Cups Greek Yogurt
1 Medium Cucumber - Seeded and Diced
3 Tbsp. Juice of One Lemon
1 garlic clove, chopped
Kosher Salt for Salting Cucumbers (to taste)
1 Tbsp. Finely Chopped Fresh Dill
Fresh Ground Black Pepper (to taste)

Chicken & Marinade

3 lbs. Chicken Breast
1 Cup White Wine Vinegar
2 1/2 Teaspoons Smoked Paprika
1 1/4 Tsp. Ground Oregano
1/2 Tsp. Pepper

Gyro Fixings
4-6 Large Pita Breads
Romaine Lettuce
1/2 Medium Red Onion (Sliced)
 

 


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Preparation:

This is a really easy cook that will bring the taste of the Mediterranean to your table.

Lets start with the chicken marinade. Mix the following in a small bowl.

1 Cup White Wine Vinegar
2 1/2 Teaspoons Smoked Paprika
1 1/4 Tsp. Ground Oregano
1/2 Tsp. Pepper

 Once all the ingredients are in the bowl, thoroughly mix the ingredients. Set the bowl aside.

Next we will prepare the chicken for the marinade. We are using 3 lbs. of boneless skinless chicken breasts. Trim off any fat, skin etc. Rinse the chicken breasts thoroughly. I use a Jaccard 48 blade tenderizer as well as a mallet. The Jaccard pierces the meat and allows the marinade better penetration. I apply it to both sides of each breast. Follow this with tenderizing with a mallet. Cover t each breast with plastic wrap and pound the chicken until its flattened to about 1/4" thick.

Once all the breasts are tenderized place the chicken into a one gallon Ziploc bag. Pour in the marinade covering the chicken. Zip close and shake well. Unzip the bag and squeeze out any air as you re-seal the bag. Place the chicken into the fridge to marinate 1 1/2 hours. Turn the bag over once during marinating.

Now let's make the Tzatziki sauce. Peel one medium cucumber. Slice the cucumber down the middle. Using a small spoon scoop out the seeds and discard them. Slice and chop the cucumber into small pieces. Using a paper towel, plot up any juice from the cucumber. Lightly apply some Kosher salt to the cucumber.

In a medium mixing bowl combine the following.

 3 Cups Greek Yogurt
1 Medium Cucumber - Seeded and Diced
3 Tbsp. Juice of One Lemon
1 garlic clove, chopped
Kosher Salt for Salting Cucumbers (to taste)
1 Tbsp. Finely Chopped Fresh Dill
Fresh Ground Black Pepper (to taste)

Using a spatula, carefully fold the ingredients into the yogurt. Once mixed place in the fridge to rest an hour. This will provide time for all the flavors to come together nicely.

This is a good time to start your cooker. In this cook I cooked on the Scottsdale Santa Maria style wood fired grill. I cooked over Mesquite lump charcoal. Once I had a nice bed of hot coals I oiled my grates and lowered them down closer to the coals. You want a nice hot grill. A good measure is if the longest you can hold your hand over the grate is about 3 seconds. This should be the perfect cooking temp at the grate.

Remove your chicken from the marinade and place on the cooking grates. No need to rinse. You want the marinade left on for flavor. Depending on how hot your cooker is you should only have to grill the chicken for 1.5 minutes to two minutes as the chicken is thin. Make sure you reach at least 165 degrees. I like to take mine to 170.

Once the chicken is fully cooked, remove it from the grill and it's time to build the Gyro's.

Using a sharp knife, slice the chicken lengthwise into 1/4" thick slices. Then cut across into 3" long pieces. Heat your Gyro breads up a bit so they become softer and easy to bend. Lay on some romaine lettuce, red onions and Feta cheese. You will notice I left the Feta cheese off. That was by design. :-) Spoon on the Tzatziki sauce and wrap the Gyro bread up around like a taco shell.

There you have it. Grilled Chicken Gyro's with an authentic Greek Tzatziki sauce.

I hope you enjoy them. Thanks for viewing!

 

 

 

 

SmokingPit.com - Grilled Chicken Gyros with an authentic Greek Tzatziki sauce. Grilled over a Mesquite wood fire on the Scottsdale Santa Maria style cooker.

SmokingPit.com - Grilled Chicken Gyros with an authentic Greek Tzatziki sauce. Grilled over a Mesquite wood fire on the Scottsdale Santa Maria style cooker. Cubing the chicken.

SmokingPit.com - Grilled Chicken Gyros with an authentic Greek Tzatziki sauce. Grilled over a Mesquite wood fire on the Scottsdale Santa Maria style cooker. Tenderizing the chicken.

SmokingPit.com - Grilled Chicken Gyros with an authentic Greek Tzatziki sauce. Grilled over a Mesquite wood fire on the Scottsdale Santa Maria style cooker. Marinating the chicken.

SmokingPit.com - Grilled Chicken Gyros with an authentic Greek Tzatziki sauce. Grilled over a Mesquite wood fire on the Scottsdale Santa Maria style cooker. Grilling the chicken.

SmokingPit.com - Grilled Chicken Gyros with an authentic Greek Tzatziki sauce. Grilled over a Mesquite wood fire on the Scottsdale Santa Maria style cooker. Slicing the chicken.

SmokingPit.com - Grilled Chicken Gyros with an authentic Greek Tzatziki sauce. Grilled over a Mesquite wood fire on the Scottsdale Santa Maria style cooker.  Building the gyro.

SmokingPit.com - Grilled Chicken Gyros with an authentic Greek Tzatziki sauce. Grilled over a Mesquite wood fire on the Scottsdale Santa Maria style cooker. The money shot.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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