Greek Fiesta

We just love making Greek food. Especially Gyros with a homemade tsasiki sauce. I got this recipe from a collegue of mine who's from Greece. I make it all the time. It's actually one of Mike's favorites. - Thanks Pana ;)

Ingredients

- pork loin (cut in bite size cubes)
- 1 onion
- 2 tbsp of olive oil
- paprika
- thyme
- oregano
- salt and pepper

Best thing is to prepare the meat the night before. The longer the marinade the better.
Cut up the pork loin in bite size pieces and put into a big bowl.
Cut the onion lengthwise and put in the bowl
drizzle olive oil, paprika, oregano, thyme over it. Add some garlic and season with salt and pepper. Mix it well up and cover and put in fridge





Tsasiki sauce:

- 2-3 gloves of garlic
- 1/2 english cucumber
- Greek yogurt (total)
- 1/2 tbsp of vinegar
- 2 tbsp of olive oil
- salt and pepper

Peel the cucumber and grate in a bowl. You can also cut it up in little pieces if you want a more chunky tsasiki sauce. Get rid of some of the water that's in the bowl with the cucumber
Add the yogurt in the bowl and mix. Depending on taste (or what you have planned for after the dinner ;) - add as many garlic gloves as you like (i put in 3 big ones usually to make it real garlicy). Cut up the garlic very finely or put in a garlic press and add to the yogurt.
Now, drizzle with olive oil, vinegar (I use red wine vinegar), and season with salt and pepper. Mix well until it gets creamy.



I serve this dish with rice. Als, I usually grill up some pita bread and cut in chip size pieces. I spread Hummus on them. If you want you can snak some olives with it. It's so easy to make and really good.