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MMMMMM Gyros! I love me some Greek food! But whenever I go out to get some it always seems like the gyros are dripping with fat and loaded with tons of calories. Which doesn't make sense because if you think about the ingredients it should be a pretty healthy meal. Pita bread, lettuce, tomato, cucumber...but where they get you is with the meat and that delicious creamy sauce. But don't worry, there is always a healthy substitute to everything.
This meal can be cooked under 30 minutes it is so easy!!
Ingredients for the Chicken:
1.5 pounds of chicken breast cut into 1 inch strips
1 tbsp. olive oil
1/4 cup lemon juice
2 tsp. minced garlic
1 tsp. yellow mustard
1 tsp. oregano
1/2 tsp. pepper
Instructions:
1. Heat the olive oil in a pan on medium heat. Then add the chicken. Let the chicken cook until both sides just barley turn white.
2. Add the lemon juice, garlic, mustard, oregano, and pepper. Mix everything really well. Reduce the heat to medium low and cover.
3. Let it cook the remainder of the time covered and in the liquid so that the chicken can stay moist and absorb the flavor.
While the chicken in cooking you can whip up the sauce!
Ingredients for the Cucumber Sauce:
1/2 cup or 1/2 a peeled chopped cucumber
2/3 cup plain or vanilla Greek yogurt (a 5.3 oz container)
1/2 tsp. dill weed
1/4 tsp. basil
Instructions:
1. In a small bowl add the yogurt, dill weed, and basil. Mix really well.
2. Next, peel the skin off of the cucumber. Then to get small, thin slices you are going to take the peeler and peel the top part of the cucumber, the circle part.
3. Add the cucumber to the yogurt mix and there you go!
Now putting it all together!
Start with your pita bread, I had whole wheat, then put a few slices of chicken topped with your cucumber sauce and then your additional toppings. I had sliced tomatoes, onion, and lettuce.
NOTE: My husband had leftovers and said the leftovers where even better! He put the chicken on the pita bread and stuck it in the microwave for about 30 seconds and he said the pita bread was even better when it was warm! So try heating up your bread before you eat it!
