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December 20, 2016

Greek Gyros & Tzatziki Sauce

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Greek Gyros with cool-as-cucumber tzatziki sauce!

This recipe for greek gyros and tzatziki sauce is easy and healthy! Fresh tomato, cucumber, and feta are the perfect filling!

This recipe for greek gyros and tzatziki sauce is easy and healthy! Fresh tomato, cucumber, and feta are the perfect filling!

The recipe for gyros is one of those magical things that combines all of my favorite things into one!  Warm pita + grilled meat + David’s greek salad + homemade tzatziki sauce = healthy yum!

In college, my family took a trip through the Mediterranean, stopping at various cities in Italy, Greece, and Turkey.  No words can even come close to describing how amazing the trip was.  Turkey remains a contender for the most interesting place on Earth that I have seen so far.

Little Brother has this special talent whenever my family travels…  finding FOOD.  Local food.  The cheap, found-in-a-back-ally, messy, delicious, authentic, i-hope-to-god-we-don’t-get-sick, what-the-hell-was-in-that food.  Needless to say, I wish I could pack Little Brother with me for all my trips.

This recipe for greek gyros and tzatziki sauce is easy and healthy! Fresh tomato, cucumber, and feta are the perfect filling!

My family was walking down a busy street in Athens, when my mom and I stopped in a local market.  We were tasting olive oils and basically in heaven.  My mom made me taste ouzo–an anise-flavored alcoholic drink.  I should have premised this story with the fact that I don’t. like. licorice.  At all.  All-sorts? Ick. Twizzlers? Gag me. Star anise? Only if it is in David’s famous poached pears. Moral of that story is I did NOT like ouzo.

Anywho, Little Brother comes running up and says, “GUYS. I just found lunch.”  We had experienced his talent first-hand for many years so we were, of course, totally game.  We followed him around corners and down random streets (how did he not get lost??) until we happened upon the local place to eat.  And by local place to eat, I mean a window cut out of a wall through which you could see just enough space for the guy taking your money and the spit holding a bunch of roasted meat.  He passed us some way-more-authentic-than-mikaela’s gyros that were . . . Mmmmm.  Sorry, memories.  They were delish.

When my family reminisces about Athens, we STILL talk about that lunch and Little Brother’s uncanny knack for finding the noms. What’s the best food you have come across in your travels???

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This recipe for greek gyros and tzatziki sauce is easy and healthy! Fresh tomato, cucumber, and feta are the perfect filling!

Nutrition & Macros per 1 stuffed pita:  373 calories     7 g carbs     23 g fat     37 g protein     4 g sugar

4 stuffed pitas

Greek Gyros with Tzatziki Sauce

30 minPrep Time

5 minCook Time

35 minTotal Time

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Ingredients

    For the Meat:
  • 1 lb beef (sirloin if you want to splurge; stew meat if you don't)
  • 2 Tablespoons olive oil
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1/4 teaspoon pepper
  • 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon dried oregano
  • 1/4 teaspoon cumin
  • 1/4 teaspoon dried marjoram
  • 1/2 teaspoons dried rosemary
  • 1/4 teaspoon dried thyme
  • 1 Tablespoon lemon juice
  • For the Tzatziki:
  • 5.3 ounces plain greek yogurt
  • 3 1/2 Tablespoons minced cucumber
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons lemon juice
  • 1 teaspoon olive oil
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
  • 1/4 teaspoon dried dill
  • For the Salad:
  • 1/2 recipe of David's Greek Salad at https://www.wyldflour.com/davids-easy-greek-salad/

Instructions

  1. Make a half recipe of David's Greek Salad and set aside.
  2. Peel cucumber and mince until you have 3 tablespoons. Add to a small tupperware and mix in remaining tzatziki ingredients. Set aside.
  3. Pat beef dry with paper towels. Slice (or cut with kitchen shears) into 1/4 inch thick slices. Place in small mixing bowl.
  4. Add spices for meat to small mixing bowl with the lemon juice. Stir meat until the spice mixture coats each of the pieces.
  5. Add the two tablespoons olive oil to a grill pan and heat over medium-high heat.
  6. When pan is hot, add meat and turn heat down to medium. Use tongs to turn pieces as needed. Cook until desired done-ness. (About 4-5 minutes to medium rare is how we like it!)
  7. Warm pitas in the microwave for 10-20 seconds.
  8. Stuff pita with meat, greek salad, and tzatziki sauce. Tuck in!

Notes

You can swap the beef for chicken, lamb, or chickpeas for a twist! (Roast the chickpeas in the oven at 400 degrees Fahrenheit until starting to brown instead of grilling them.)

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Nutrition

Calories

139 cal

Fat

7 g

Carbs

15 g

Protein

8 g
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  1. Romain says

    December 21, 2016 at 5:54 pm

    Love the idea of rolling the greek salad right into the gyro. Big, fat flavour bomb! I just got a little Japanese grill I'm having fun playing with. I'm going to try this ASAP. What a great summery idea to brighten up my winter.
    Reply
    • Mikaela says

      December 21, 2016 at 8:48 pm

      Romain, oooooohhhhh. Tell me about your Japanese grill! And we are BIG on greek salad around here, so we tend to over-use it any way we can!
      Reply
  2. Jamie | A Sassy Spoon says

    December 21, 2016 at 3:30 pm

    DYING to go to Greece! Love everything about this post. Everything looks so fresh and so delish. I love gyros!
    Reply
    • Mikaela says

      December 21, 2016 at 8:46 pm

      Jamie, it is one of my favorite places! We hopped around several islands and I couldn't even begin to pick a favorite!
      Reply
  3. Marie @ Yay! For Food says

    December 21, 2016 at 1:41 pm

    Looks so yummy! I love all the different flavours and textures going on in your gyro! Lovely pictures of the food as always and of your trip to Greece! It makes me what to go! BTW, how do you pronounce gyro? I've heard it pronounced in so many different ways! :)
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    • Mikaela says

      December 21, 2016 at 8:44 pm

      Marie, I feel your pain! Every time I say it, I'm still not positive! But I've always pronounced it yee-ros!
      Reply
  4. Erica Schmidt says

    December 21, 2016 at 8:26 am

    Love your story, Mikaela! I've never made these at home but you won me over with one ingredient, cucumbers! Our house stands divided on the crunch veggie but I still plant way too many plants in the garden. Can't wait for next season so I can make this with fresh ones from our garden! Pinning, thanks for sharing!
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    • Mikaela says

      December 21, 2016 at 8:43 pm

      Erica, I totally understand the divide! I actually am not a huge fan of cucumbers EXCEPT in greek food. Lol. I am so jealous that you will be having fresh cucumbers from the garden - it sounds divine!
      Reply
  5. Alyssa @ A Bite of Inspiration says

    December 20, 2016 at 11:43 pm

    This looks amazing!! I love gyros, but the meat is kind of questionable at some of the street side stands I go to. Using this recipe to make it at home means I know what's in it (good-bye mystery meat) and I can practice quality control. Score! Also, your Mediterranean road trip sounds incredible. Love the pictures! Thank you so much for sharing!
    Reply
    • Mikaela says

      December 21, 2016 at 8:41 pm

      Alyssa - ahhhh, but those street side stands are the best! Lol. It was incredible! I will always want to go back!
      Reply
  6. Riva says

    December 20, 2016 at 9:05 pm

    Looks delish! I love love Greek Gyros and I have been looking for a good tzatziki sauce! And I am so jealous, I've never been to Greece before. Its on my bucket list! For now, I'll just have to make this recipe and pretend I am there!:)
    Reply
    • Mikaela says

      December 21, 2016 at 8:40 pm

      Riva, as tourist-y as it seems, I highly recommend a Mediterranean cruise! It's an easy way to visit LOTS of islands and multiple countries in one go!! And I agree--I could eat tzatziki on pretty much anything.
      Reply
  7. Joyce says

    December 20, 2016 at 5:33 pm

    Mmmm...I love gyros. Have you had it dipping hummus? It's ah-mazeballs. Eating at dives and hole in the walls is the only way to go! All the most fantastical foods I ever had were from questionable places, so I very rarely now eat at fancy places anymore. Maybe the occasional hipster joint? but dives all the way! Best foods I had on my travels would have to be in Mexico. Jumped into a taxi, asked my driver to take me to some REAL food (since resort food is kinda lackluster) and BAM! I had no idea where I was, no one around spoke much english, and I couldn't read any of the signs but something smelled FANTASTIC. They were grilling up some crazy meats at this hole in a wall that smelled heavenly. (They also had gyro too! But they used pineapple instead of the usual tomato at the top of the spit to keep the meats moist!) I ended up getting a GIANT, I mean, 'holy-crap-I-think-this-can-probably-feed-a-family-of-10' GIANT platter of meat haha! It also came with something green and slimy, which I figured out later was cactus! Best-meal-ever. Oh! and somehow I lost my taxi driver (although, I swear he just drove away and left me there) haha quite the adventure!
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    • Mikaela says

      December 21, 2016 at 8:39 pm

      Hahahaha. Joyce, I am so glad you shared this story!! It is now my goal to do the same any time I go somewhere new--jump in a cab and say take me to food! I love that you tried something green and slimy even though you had no idea what it was!
      Reply

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