Greek Chicken with Feta Tzatziki

This is what's for dinner tonight.... as Rachael Ray would say. I'm really excited to try this!

• 4 pieces chicken breast
• Poultry seasoning
• Salt and pepper
• 3 lemons, 1 sliced, 2 halved for juicing
• 3 to 4 cloves garlic, 2 chopped, 1 clove pasted or grated
• 1 red chili pepper, seeded and finely chopped
• 2 sprigs oregano, finely chopped
• 2 sprigs rosemary, chopped 

 

• 1/3 cup EVOO – Extra Virgin Olive Oil
• 1/2 seedless cucumber, peeled and grated or shredded
• 1 cup Greek yogurt
• 1/2 cup Greek feta crumbles
• A small handful of dill
• A small handful of parsley 

• Greek vegetable salad: (use a combo of all or some!) diced seeded tomatoes, cucumber, red onions, bell peppers, light green small Greek pickled hot peppers, parsley tops 

• Flat bread, pita or Naan bread 

Season chicken with dried poultry seasoning, salt and pepper. Add to a bag with sliced lemon, chopped garlic, chili pepper, oregano and rosemary. Marinate several hours or overnight. 

Bring to room temp then cook on a hot grill or grill pan over medium-high heat 12-15 minutes. Let rest then slice on angle, douse with juice of 1 lemon.

For sauce, salt shredded cucumber and drain in strainer for 20-30 minutes. Press out all the liquid you can and transfer to food processor with yogurt, feta, dill, parsley, salt, pepper, juice of remaining halved lemon and grated or pasted garlic, and process until smooth.

Grill bread. 

Slather grilled bread with sauce, top with sliced chicken and some diced vegetable salad. 

Notes:

I forgot to get real garlic so I have garlic powder in the chicken marinade. Hard to compare real garlic with a powder, but it'll have to do for now.

I also have honey Greek yogurt.... so I'll have to think about going with the honey OR going back to the store for plain.

Delicious! Even Tava gobbled it up! 

I used what I had on hand, which means tortillas instead of pitas or Naan, but it was still good. I lightly grilled the tortillas to warm them up.

It always seems to me that Rachael Ray adds salt constantly, so I didn't add s+p to everything... but I should have. 

The honey in the Greek yogurt turned out okay. I think. I've never made tzatziki and I've only had it a couple of times, so I'm not all that familiar with what it should taste like. It was really tasty though.