Don’s Gyro Burgers
Hands down, my favorite Summer Dinner Sandwich is my Gyro Burger. I call it that because it has the hint of a gyro sandwich, but with chicken…and is a burger kinda thing.
Tonight I added something new, since I had a pile of basil in the garden. So in addition to the spinach, I added a handful of basil. And it was a GREAT addition!
We served this with a quick cucumber pickle. Perfect for a hot day. And the quick pickle worked great in the yogurt sauce.
Ingredients
Olive oil
Half a sweet onion, diced
Bag of baby spinach
Oregano to taste
1/4 lb of crumbled feta cheese
1 package of ground chicken
1/3 cucumber, sliced
Greek yogurt
Handful of Kalamata olives
Buns
Sliced roasted bell peppers. We use jarred bell peppers.
Instructions
Wilt the spinach and the basil. Remove and cook down the onions. Put these in a bowl with the feta and oregano. Add the chicken and a little olive oil and mix.
Heat up your grill, cast iron pan or griddle. Drop the grill temp to medium and form burgers. You should make six of them.
Form six burners by hand (olive oil your hands) and toss them on the cooking surface. The heat should be medium by now. Cook about 7 minutes each side. This is raw chicken, no less than 7 minutes a side should be good on a medium heat. If you have no flare-ups, and you’re worried about under-cooking, you might be able to go with 10 minutes a side. But only if your heat is low.
For toppings (this is the rest of the ingredients) and you should have done this while the burgers are cooking) slice up the cucumber, olives and red bell pepper. We like mixing the cucumbers in a little yogurt…not much.
When the burgers are done, top with the cucumber mix, olives and red bell peppers.
We served these with some air-fried potato crisps. We boiled a handful of cut up potatoes for 10 minutes, dried them. Tossed them in some salted corn starch and olive oil and air-fried them for 20 minutes. They were GREAT bites! Well pretend that the spinach, basil, olives and red bell pepper rounded out our veggies for the meal.