Chicken Gyros with Cucumber Salsa and Tzatziki

By cacelias

Assemble these wrap-style sandwiches with flatbread for a fast of Greece. The first time I made this, it was an instant hit! Sent it to all the kids and everyone loved it! Definitely a keeper! Can be made vegetarian by just leaving out the chicken and adding some crunchy vegetables like cucumber, carrot sticks, & zucchini!

Recipe from Gourmet Magazine, All-Time-Best Recipes, 2015.

Ingredients

• 2 cucumbers, divided
• 1 1/2 cups Greek Yogurt, plain
• 1 t fresh lemon juice, divided
• 5 cloves of garlic, minced, divided
• salt
• pepper
• 1 pint grape tomatoes, quartered
• 1 small red onion, halved and thinly sliced
• 1/3 cup chopped Italian Flat Leaf Parsley
• 1/4 cup chopped mint
• 1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil
• 1 rounded t dried oregano
• 1 rounded t dried rosemary, crumbled
• 1/2 roast chicken, meat shredded, skin discarded
• 1 pkg naan bread (I liked the garlic flavored ones)
• 1/2 head iceberg lettuce, thinly sliced

Preparation

Step 1

To make the Tzatziki:
Peel and grate one cucumber, then squeeze it with your hands to remove the excess water. Stir together with yogurt, 1/2 t lemon juice, 1/3 garlic, 1/4 t each of salt and pepper.

To make the salsa:
Cut remaining cucumber into 1/4 inch pieces and stir together with the tomatoes, onion, parsley, mint, remaining 1/2 t lemon juice, and 1/4 t each of salt and pepper.

To make the garlic oil:
Gently simmer oil, oregano, rosemary, remaining garlic, 1/4 t salt and 1/8 t pepper in a small heavy saucepan, stirring constantly, until garlic is fragrant but not browned, 1-2 minutes.

Toss the chicken with 3T of the garlic oil and brush one side of the bread with the remainder.

Broil the bread, oiled side up, on a rimmed baking sheet, covered with foil, 3 minutes. Uncover and broil, rotating bread for even coloring, until golden in spots, about 2 minutes.

Spread some of the Tzatziki on the warm bread and top with the chicken, some of the lettuce and salsa.

Tzatziki can be made one day ahead and chilled.