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Chicken Gyro

Difficulty: Easy
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Total Time 2 hours 30 minutes
Course: Main Course
Cuisine: Greek
Ingredients Method Notes

Ingredients
  

  • 2.5 lbs boneless skinless chicken thighs 
Marinade
  • ½ cups greek yogurt
  • ¼ cup lemon juice
  • 1 tbsp olive oil
  • 1 tsp paprika
  • 1 tsp ground cumin
  • ½ tsp cayenne pepper
  • 1 tsp black pepper
  • 1 tsp oregano
  • 1 tbsp red wine vinegar
Tzatziki sauce
  • 1 cucumber
  • 1 cup greek yogurt
  • 1 garlic clove
  • 1-2 tbsp fresh mint
  • 1-2 tbsp olive oil
Garnish
  • Red onion
  • Parsley
  • Tomato

Method
 

  1. Start off by making the marinade. In a bowl, add all the ingredients for the marinade, then slice up the chicken thighs into strips,( about 3 strips per thigh). Add those to the bowl where the marinade is and combine thoroughly. Then place in the refrigerator for at least 2 hours.
  2. While they are marinating, slice up the red onion, tomatoes, and chop up the parsley.
  3. Now, let’s made the sauce! Split the cucumber in half, scrape the seeds with a spoon and grate the cucumber with your grater. Squeeze out all the water before adding the grated cucumber to a bowl. Now, add all the other ingredients to the bowl and combine thoroughly to make the sauce. Season with salt and black pepper to taste.
  4. After 2 hours, preheat your griddle on sear mode. Sear the chicken flipping every 2 minutes and remove once they hit an internal temperature of 175.
  5. Once you remove the chicken, warm up the pita bread at 300 degrees, for about 2 minutes per side.
  6. Now let’s assemble! Add sauce to the pita, chicken, more sauce, thin sliced onions, tomato and garnish with parsley. 

Notes

You can use boneless skinless chicken breast as a replacement. Cut those into strips as well. I highly recommend a meat thermometer for this cook. 

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