I love a good gyro. I never considered even trying to make one because, this may come as a surprise, but I don’t have a spit in my tiny apartment. I know, a huge oversight. So I was really excited to find this recipe for Lamb Wraps with Tzatziki Sauce, (no spit required), especially because it takes 25 minutes to make. Woo hoo! (If I haven’t convinced you to pick up the Cooking Light Fresh Foods Superfast cookbook yet, you must not be reading my posts this week).
Ingredients:
Lamb Wrap:
- Cooking spray
- 2 lamb sausages (or 1/2 lb ground lamb)
- 1/2 cup chopped onions
- Pepper and salt, to taste
- 1 cup shredded romaine lettuce
- 2 pocketless pitas or other flat bread
Tzatziki sauce:
- 1/4 cup plain reduced fat Greek yogurt
- 1/2 a cucumber, seeded, peeled, and finely chopped
- 1/2 tablespoon chopped fresh mint
- the juice from 1/2 a lemon
- Salt, to taste
- 1 garlic clove finely minced
To make the Lamb Wraps with Tzatziki Sauce, heat a saute pan sprayed with cooking spray over medium high heat. While the pan is heating up, chop your onion and remove the lamb from the casing. Note: I used lamb sausage because my butcher was out of ground lamb. It was seasoned with some salt, pepper, and parsley, so nothing too crazy.
Add the lamb and onion to the saute pan. and cook for 8 minutes, breaking up the lamb with a wooden spoon as it cooks.
Make the tzatziki sauce while the lamb is cooking. Combine the Greek yogurt, cucumber, mint, lemon juice, salt, and garlic.
Cook until the lamb is browned. Drain and season with salt and pepper.
Quickly grill the flat bread if you’d like. Add the lettuce evenly to each flat bread.
Add lamb mixture.
Drizzle with the Tzatziki sauce.
Roll up and secure with a string. (I only had ribbon, I completely blame Christmas for this, sorry).You could also wrap it in parchment paper.
I honestly wasn’t expecting much from this. I figured it would just taste so-so. Well, happily, I was wrong! It really had a lot of flavor!
I think getting the lamb sausage had a lot to do with this, so if you can, grab that. It’s worth the extra step of removing it from the casing.
As with a traditional gyro, these Lamb Wraps with Tzatziki Sauce were really quite messy to eat so stock up on napkins. You have been warned. 🙂
Lamb Wraps with Tzatziki Sauce
An under-30 minute recipe for a classic-inspired gyro you can make at home; no spit required!
Ingredients
- Cooking spray
- 2 lamb sausages or 1/2 lb ground lamb
- 1/2 cup chopped onions
- Pepper and salt to taste
- 1 cup shredded romaine lettuce
- 2 pocketless pitas or other flat bread
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- Tzatziki sauce:
- 1/4 cup plain reduced fat Greek yogurt
- 1/2 a cucumber seeded, peeled, and finely chopped
- 1/2 tablespoon chopped fresh mint
- the juice from 1/2 a lemon
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- Salt to taste
- 1 garlic clove finely minced
Instructions
- Heat a saute pan sprayed with cooking spray over medium high heat. While the pan is heating up, chop your onion and remove the lamb from the casing. Note: I used lamb sausage because my butcher was out of ground lamb. It was seasoned with some salt, pepper, and parsley, so nothing too crazy.
- Add the lamb and onion to the saute pan. and cook for 8 minutes, breaking up the lamb with a wooden spoon as it cooks.
- Make the tzatziki sauce while the lamb is cooking. Combine the Greek yogurt, cucumber, mint, lemon juice, salt, and garlic.
- Cook until the lamb is browned. Drain and season with salt and pepper.
- Quickly grill the flat bread if you’d like. Add the lettuce evenly to each flat bread.
- Add lamb mixture.
- Drizzle with the Tzatziki sauce.
Notes
If you make this recipe, share a photo on Instagram and tag me @icancookthat!
Ever since spending time in Greece at age 13, I’ve been a goner for their food. And my wife loves tzaziki beyond reason, so this would be an utter success at our home.
Looks great– you should tackle falafel next!
I was serious thinking about ordering gyro meat, but after seeing this post I am now interested in lamb sausage! I hope to see that at my specialty grocers, but I am sure they have ground lamb. Great post, sadly I am craving it now but I need to get to the store. Delicious!
My mouth is watering! I would’ve loved to have this for dinner tonight. Yum!
I love gyros! Wonder if I can install a spit into the house we are building? In the mean time I will have to give this a try, hubby will love Greek night!
OMG THIS LOOKS SO GOOD. I’m starving!!