Chicken Tikka Gyros

Step 1

Crush garlic and ginger into paste.

Step 2

Add herbs, spices, oil and lemon juice to yogurt and mix thoroughly.

Step 3

Cut chicken into bite size pieces and add to marinade.

Step 4

Marinate chicken in refrigerator, at least 5-6 hours, preferably overnight. In a pinch, even 30 minute marination will give you tasty tikkas.

Step 5

Preheat oven to 500°F.

Step 6

Skewer chicken pieces and place on greased, foil lined, baking sheet.

Step 7

Bake 15 minutes, turn tikkas and baste with melted butter or ghee. Return to oven.

Step 8

Bake and additional 10-15 minutes.

Step 9

Broil 3-4 minutes, while keeping close eye on your tikkas, to get nice char marks.

Step 10

Grate cucumbers into colander. Toss with 1/2 tsp salt, to extract water from cucumber. Let sit 10-15 minutes. Manually squeeze water out of grated cucumber.

Step 11

Combine all ingredients in bowl. Taste and adjust. Add extra salt, lemon juice, herbs or garlic to your taste.

Step 12

Refrigerate at least 1 hour before serving.

Step 13

After preparing chicken and tzatziki, chop lettuce and cucumber. Halve cherry tomatoes.

Step 14

On pita bread, layer vegetables, chicken, tzatziki and feta.