Grilled Chicken Gyro Salad with Pita Croutons

Grilled souvlaki chicken on a Greek type salad with pita croutons and and Gyro-style tzatziki dressing.

Grilled Chicken Gyro Salad with Pita Croutons

by Sue Lau | Palatable Pastime

recipe via Erin | The Spiffy Cookie

I don’t recall if I told anyone yet, but recently I joined a group of fellow bloggers called the Secret Recipe Club. In the group you are assigned a blog each month, and then choose a recipe to tag, cook and blog. I had been wanting to join this group for quite sometime now, as I am fond of tagging and preparing recipes from people I know online, and have been doing so for years. But even so, my application with the group got lost last year and I forgot about it as well. But recently remembering it and inquiring again, I was accepted into the group right away. Being a first time participant, I can say I am really stoked about trying someone else’s recipe, which to be truthful, I often find little time to do when I make so many of my own recipes. But I do find the time when needed and I hope this is just the beginning of a long and lasting relationship between Palatable Pastime and the group. I know my family, friends and other readers will be quite excited to take a peek at all the good things that are in store. And what good things?
This month I was assigned the blog The Spiffy Cookie. It is written by Erin. I must tell you that browsing the blog, I came across recipe after recipe of tantalizing ideas. I felt like a kid on Christmas morning. And in fact, there are quite a few holiday recipes in there that I will be returning to for Christmas morning as well. It was so hard to decide! But finally I settled on the Grilled Chicken Gyro salad with Pita Croutons.
I picked a winner.

Chicken Marinade Ingredients

Cubed Chicken

Chicken in Marinade

Don’t forget to soak your wooden skewers!

Tzatziki Dressing Ingredients

It may seem like a lot of work to look at, but this is a one-dish meal, that is made in components the same way you would any dinner menu. I don’t have an exact time down for how long it took me to prepare (I was making watermelon rind pickles at the same time anyway). But if I can do pickles and get this on the table in about the same time, most people shouldn’t have any worries.

Grating Cucumber

Tzatziki Dressing

Crouton Ingredients

Cutting Pita Bread

Seasoning Croutons

The salad itself is like a Greek salad with souvlaki and a tzatziki dressing (gyro sauce) which really is more like a salad dressing than a typical tzatziki sauce. The croutons are from pita bits which are baked quite easily for just a few minutes until they are crisp.
I served my salads in noodle bowls and it was quite filling. No room for anything else but maybe wine (isn’t there always room for wine?)

Baking Croutons

Croutons after Baking

Salad Toppings

Salad Before Adding Chicken and Croutons

Grilling Chicken

My husband gave it a big thumbs up as he adores dinner salads.
Make sure you drop by Erin’s blog and tell her I sent you. —–>>>>> The Spiffy Cookie

Here is the recipe Erin shared with me:

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