Greek Chicken Gyros Recipe with Tzatziki Sauce {LOW CALORIE}

This Greek Chicken Gyros Recipe with Tzatziki Sauce is low calories, and can be made in just 30 minutes!

The quick, chicken Gyro recipe can be made on hectic weeknights for a fast, under 350 calorie dinner. Or on weekends as a wonderful lunch.

In this article, you will learn how to make a low calorie Greek Chicken Gyros Recipe with Tzatziki Sauce. And to make things easy, we’ve included a shopping list, printable recipe card, nutrition label, and more.

Now you can have your favorite chicken gyros with tzatziki without ruining your diet. This protein packed dinner curbs cravings and fills you up.

This Greek Chicken Gyros Recipe with Tzatziki Sauce is just 326 calories!

Greek Chicken Gyros Recipe with Tzatziki Sauce

In this article, you’ll learn how to make chicken gyros with tzatziki sauce in a handy “how to guide” find all the ingredients you’ll need in a shopping list. You’ll even find a nutrition label for this Greek Chicken Gyros Recipe with Tzatziki Sauce.

Along with with low calorie chicken gyro marinade, you’ll find a homemade gyro tzatziki sauce. I’ve broken the recipes out separately so you can use the marinade or sauce in other gyro wrap recipes.

These Greek gyros chicken pitas make an easy, fast weeknight dinner. To make these Greek pitas even easier, we have supplied you with the following sections.

To make these healthy chicken gyros easy, we’ve supplied you with the following sections.

Read though them for helpful resources, or skip ahead to the recipe card.

What You’ll Find in this Article:

• Ingredients for Greek Chicken Gyros Recipe (shopping list!)
• How to Make Chicken Gyros
• Greek Chicken Gyros Recipe with Tzatziki Sauce (recipe card!)
• Nutrition and Calories in Greek Chicken Gyros

In this article for Mediterranean gyros with tzatziki sauce, you’ll find everything you need to make a low calorie gyro recipe chicken pita in one easy place… You can even print the recipe card to make this chicken with tzatziki recipe handy after a long day of work.

Helpful Tip for Shopping: Take a screenshot of the shopping list to your phone. This way you have it at your fingertips the next time you go grocery shopping.

Recipe Card Uses: You can email yourself this recipe card so you can easily search for it (I have a folder in my email just for recipes!) Or print it so you have it handy, and can make notes. You can even pin this recipe for chicken gyros to Pinterest so it is safely stored for you.

Below you’ll find a shopping list, how to guide, a printable recipe card, and nutrition label…

Ingredients for Greek Chicken Gyros Recipe

This Greek Chicken Gyros Recipe with Tzatziki Sauce is made extra easy with the shopping list in this section.

I recommend taking a screenshot of the shopping list, this way you have it at your fingertips the next time you go grocery shopping.

This chicken pita Greek recipe make calls for a lot of ingredients, but if you notice, you likely have many of them already in your pantry.

I like to freeze extra flatbreads, so that I have them available whenever I want to make this chicken Gyro recipe.

Shopping List for Chicken Gyro Wraps:

• Chicken breast, boneless and skinless
• Lemon
• Garlic powder
• Dill
• Salt and Pepper
• 0% Greek Yogurt
• Cucumber 
• Olive oil spray
• Red bell pepper 
• Red onion
• Flat breads pitas, or naan bread
• Romaine lettuce 
• Tomato 
• Kalamata olives (optional)

Special Tip: You can find all the measurements in the recipe card below. There you can choose how many servings of this low calorie chicken gyros you want to make. It will do all the measurement math for you! All of the ingredients for this healthy gyro recipe can be doubled or tripled with the click of a button.

Now that you have all the ingredients to make this chicken tzatziki recipe, we will move onto the how to guide. There, you’ll learn how to make the chicken gyro marinade, and how to put together tzatziki chicken gyros.

Up next, a “how to guide” for homemade gyros with chicken…

How to Make Chicken Gyros

This pita chicken gyro recipe is easy and fast. We’ve broken out the steps so they are easy to follow. While the chicken is cooking, we recommend making the gyro tzatziki sauce, this will help cut down prep time. Plus it’s super fast!

The following Greek pita recipes also be found in the sharable recipe card below. Along with measurements, nutrition, and more.

For this how to guide, we wanted to make this chicken gyro recipe extra easy. We have broken out the three different gyro Greek recipes to make your work easier.

You can use the gyro marinade chicken recipe on any cuts of chicken. You don’t just have to use it in this chicken gyro recipe.

How to Make Chicken Gyros:

Marinate the chicken:

1. Add the chicken to a freezer bag or bowl.
2. Zest the lemon over the chicken, then juice the lemon and add all of the juice to the chicken.
3. Add in the garlic powder, dill, salt and pepper. If using a bag, close and squish together, if using a bowl, coat the chicken with the marinade and cover.
4. Marinade for 1-12 hours in the fridge.

Make the Tzatziki Sauce:

1. Add the yogurt, garlic powder, dill and salt to a medium bowl.
2. Use a cheese grater to shred the cucumber, and add to the yogurt.
3. Mix well, cover and set aside.

Make the Gyro Wrap:

1. Heat a skillet over medium heat. Spray with olive oil and then add in the bell pepper and onion.
2. Add in the chicken breast, and reserve the marinade.
3. Cook for 8 minutes, flip the chicken and mix the vegetables, and cook for an additional 8-10 minutes until the chicken is cooked through with no pink in the center.
4. Remove the chicken from the skillet and slice thin, then add back to the skillet along with the reserved marinade.
5. Cook for an additional 5 minutes, then remove from the heat.
6. To each flat bread, spread over 1/8 cup of the Tzatziki sauce, add 1/2 of the chicken. Top with chopped cucumber, lettuce, tomato and olives.
7. Serve immediately, with more Tzatziki sauce on the side or drizzled over the top.

Special Tip: You find all of these directions in the shareable recipe card below. There you can also double or triple the recipe, and the measurement math will be taken care of for you.

Up next, a shareable recipe card for Greek Chicken Gyros Recipe with Tzatziki Sauce…

Greek Chicken Gyros Recipe with Tzatziki Sauce

This Greek Chicken Gyros Recipe with Tzatziki Sauce is UNDER 350 calories, and can be made in just 30 minutes!

No you can enjoy your favorite chicken pita gyros with tzatziki without ruining your diet. In the next section you will find a nutrition label, and below that… more low calorie recipes.

Up next, calories in greek chicken gyros…

Nutrition and Calories in Greek Chicken Gyros

Not all Chicken gyros are made the same. This extra low calorie recipe can be found in the recipe card above.

The nutrition and calories below are based off 1 serving (1 chicken gyro with sauce) form the Healthy Greek Chicken Gyros with Tzatziki Sauce recipe above.

Important Note: As a reminder, at Lose Weight By Eating it is our goal to make you healthier, all-natural versions of your favorite recipes… not all will be “diet worthy” depending on the diet you are on. But they will be healthier versions to help curb your cravings.

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