Greek Gyro Salad Recipe | My Montana Kitchen (2024)

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This Gyro Salad is filled with savory flavors, feta cheese, homemade gyro meat, and a delicious tzatziki dressing.

This recipe is a Trim Healthy Mama S recipe, but is also low carb, keto friendly, and gluten free!

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This is a recipe my husband has been wanting to develop for well over a year.

Gyros are kind of his thing. (I had never even heard of gyros until I met him!)

I’ve never even eaten a 100% authentic Greek gyro, but he has, and declares they are one of his favorite things!

Of course, following the Trim Healthy Mama plan, traditional gyro flatbreads are not on plan. (Check out the ideas below for a more traditional gyro.)

How to make your own Gyro meat

The idea of a gyro salad was very appealing to my husband, and he began to do research on how to make his own gyro meat.

Most methods also recommend placing a heavy object on the meat after it comes out of the oven, to compress it.

Then after the meat has baked, it must rest for an hour or two, then you thinly slice the meat and pan-fry it in a bit of oil.

This makes the edges of the meat perfectly crispy.

The steps may be a bit involved, but it makes a good amount of meat, and the meat keeps well in the fridge.

I love making this for supper, then I have leftover gyro meat and tzatziki sauce for lunches during the week.

For our testing, we used 1 ½ Pounds of burger (we actually used elk, but hamburger is fine) and ½ Pound of ground lamb. More traditional meat would use all lamb.

But if lamb is not in your budget, you can use all burger, or perhaps even use some turkey burger!

All of that to say, the gyro meat part of this recipe is my husband’s creation. The tzatziki sauce/dressing is my creation.

You could add whatever additional toppings you want for your salad. I used feta, onions, and olives, but cherry tomatoes would be a great addition as well.

How to make Greek Tzatziki Dressing

The tzatziki sauce is more of a dressing, because it is much thinner than traditional tzatziki.

If you wanted it to be thick, you could place your grated cucumbers in a cheesecloth and squeeze all of the water out of them. Then, instead of blending in a blender, you can just mix all the ingredients with a spoon.

This would give you more of a traditional tzatziki sauce, which is very thick.

If you are a Trim Healthy Mama, you could also have a more traditional style gyro using the Joseph’s Pitas, or you could try this keto naan.

Simply layer the lettuce, gyro meat and toppings, then drizzle with the tzatziki sauce.

I have eaten them that way a couple of times, and it was amazing!

Even my children loved this salad, so it is family approved!

Ingredients needed for Greek Gyro Salad

Gyro Meat:

2 Pounds Burger (we used 1.5 pounds elk and ½ pound lamb)

5 Slices Bacon (raw)

¾ of a Large Onion

1 Tablespoon Minced Garlic

1 Tablespoon Ground Rosemary

1 Tablespoon Marjoram

1 Teaspoon Smoked Paprika

1 Teaspoon Cumin

1 Teaspoon Dried Dill Weed

2 Teaspoons Mineral Salt

1 Teaspoon Black Pepper

Coconut oil, for frying the gyro meat

Tzatziki Sauce:

1 Large English Cucumber

1 Cup Plain Greek Yogurt

1 Teaspoon Garlic, Minced

½ Teaspoon Dried Dill Weed

½ Teaspoon Mineral Salt

2 ½ Tablespoons Fresh Lemon Juice

Salad Ingredients:

Lettuce of choice

Red onions, sliced

Feta Cheese

Olives

Cherry Tomatoes

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