Chicken Gyro Salad

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Chicken Gyro Salad

Ingredients

Instructions

Prepare the chicken:
1. Combine all ingredients in a large freezer bag.
2. Rub all around, coating chicken as evenly as possible.
3. Let marinate for 20 minutes or up to 24 hours, whatever time you have.
   
Make tzatziki:
4. Place the yogurt in a medium bowl.
5. Quarter your cucumber lengthwise and cut out the seeded area.
6. Coarsely grate your cucumber (or use a Cuisinart) onto a clean dishcloth and wring it out as well as you can. All of that liquid makes for a soggy sauce.
7. Add wrung-out cucumber to yogurt bowl along with lemon, vinegar, dill, garlic, salt and pepper and stir to combine.
8. Taste and adjust seasonings.
9. Chill until needed.
Prepare salad components:
10. Arrange lettuce, onion, tomatoes and cucumbers on a platter.
11. If desired, toss onion with a squeeze of lemon and/or dash or two of vinegar and salt so that it mellows/lightly pickles while it rests.
Cook chicken:
12. Heat your grill to high heat or a grill pan to medium-high.
13. Remove chicken from marinade and grill on first side until dark lines appear, about 5 minutes
14. Then flip and grill for 3 minutes more on second side.
15. Cooking times will vastly range by the thickness and coldness of your chicken, as well as variations between grills.
16. Transfer cooked chicken to a cutting board, let rest for a couple minutes while you quickly heat/toast your pitas on the grill.
Eating
17. Cut chicken into thin strips.
18. Cut pitas into wedges.
19. Add to platter with vegetables and let everyone dig in.
20. Repeat all summer.