Recipe: Perfect Greek Chicken gyros

Greek Chicken gyros. A simple and versatile Greek chicken marinade that you can use regularly, even if you're not making chicken gyros. This is a yogurt marinade with a nice dose of fresh minced garlic and a few warm spices (oregano, paprika , cumin , coriander , salt and pepper, cayenne if you like heat). Here's what you need for the marinade.

Yogurt is the secret ingredient in this recipe. The acid in the yoghurt breaks down the fibres so it not only softens. You can marinate the chicken ahead of time and whip up your homemade tzatziki too! You can have Greek Chicken gyros using 15 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Greek Chicken gyros

1. Prepare 2 of fillet chicken breasts.
2. It's 1/2 of lemon.
3. Prepare 2 tbs of paprika.
4. You need 2 tbs of oregano.
5. Prepare 1 tbs of salt.
6. Prepare 1/2 tbs of black pepper.
7. It's 2 of minced garlic cloves.
8. You need 3 tbs of olive oil.
9. Prepare 120 g of greek yogurt.
10. It's of Wrap filling.
11. It's of Sliced red onions.
12. You need of Sliced tomatoes.
13. It's of Sliced red pepper.
14. It's of French fries.
15. Prepare of Greek Pita bread.

These Greek Chicken Gyros with Tzatziki sauce can be wrapped in your favorite pita bread. You can use soft flatbread or Naan bread as well. Warm your pitas before wrapping to make them nice and soft. You can also serve this chicken, Greek salad, and handcrafted tzatziki sauce in a bowl.

Greek Chicken gyros instructions

1. Cut the breasts into slices and marinate in a mix of yogurt, lemon, garlic, pepper,paprika and olive oil for 1/2 an hour..
2. In a preheated grilling pan add chicken slices on high heat untill cooked and golden. Don't overcrowd the pan with the slices for better crispy results..
3. Cook each group and keep aside untill you finish all the quantity then return them all back to the grilling pan..
4. Start to make the wrap.First put chicken then onions, pepper, tomatoes and fries..
5. Serve it with tzatziki...

Serve alone or on top of romaine lettuce. Authentic Greek Chicken Gyros Recipe is the closet to any Gyros take-outs you'll ever make. Packed with authentic Gyros flavors, this recipe will reward you with soft juicy chicken strips (shaved just as a gyros joint) completely smothered in a bath of chicken gyro marinade before being baked in the oven. I cut the grilled chicken strips into smaller portions and sprinkled them with Cavender's All Purpose Greek Seasoning. Good easy recipe on a hot summer day!