Simple Greek Style Lamb Wraps With Tzatziki

These simple Greek-style lamb wraps and packed with juicy aromatic lamb just oozing with flavour. Add in a bit of crunchy salad and the zingy creaminess of tzatziki and you have the perfect real fast food Mediterranean style.

 Greek-style lamb wraps

This weekend it will be Greek Easter, a celebration that rather leaves Christmas in the shade when it comes down to all-out festivities and happiness and proper noncommercial family gathering.

This weekend will be all about candlelight processions, roasting lamb and competing to see whose red egg wins the battle of the tapping. While I may not be there I shall celebrate in my own way and make these Greek-style lamb wraps instead.

My Greek Odessey

I was lucky enough to live and work over in the Greek Islands for almost five years back when I was in my twenties and more recently spent three amazing years living on the island of Crete. It was a wonderful time full of sunshine, retsina, fun, friends and fabulous food. 

I credit Greece for introducing me to the real joys of home cooking and the love of herbs. No meal is complete without the aromatic touch of wild thyme, oregano, mint, rosemary or basil.

From the fast street food souflaki to the long slow roasting of the traditional Easter lamb, herbs play an important part in giving Greek food its abundance of flavour and hint of spice.

Ingredients

I’ve used lamb steaks for my wraps and also some streaky bacon to add some extra flavour.

Greek flavours – it’s all about those important flavours here; garlic, the zing of lemon and herbs. I’ve used fresh rosemary and thyme and dried oregano. Dried oregano always has a better flavour than fresh oregano in cooking.

Look out for Greek, or better still, Cretan dried oregano in bigger supermarkets like Waitrose and online. I promise you it’s well worth tracking down this amazingly flavour packed herb to enhance so many dishes.

How to make these Greek lamb wraps

Marinating all the ingredients for these lamb wraps is what gives them such an amazing depth of flavour. You just need to chuck all your ingredients into a bowl and mix thoroughly.

Cover and pop them in the fridge for an hour while you search for your Zorba the Greek CD and down a quick ouzo or two.

Then simply heat a nice heavy-based skillet on high heat and tip everything in there adding olives and baby tomatoes and cook for about 8 minutes. Just moving it about the pan as you do so.

Tzatziki

Finish off your Greek-style lamb wraps with some gorgeously creamy tzatziki and a bit of traditional Greek salad. Check out my Tzatziki and Greek salad recipe and you’ll be good to go.

What type of wraps

Use standard corn or wheat wraps for this recipe. Or you could use pitta breads. Better still use my 2 ingredient taco recipe to make your own super tasty wraps made from only Greek yogurt and flour!

Looking for more super quick and tasty Greek recipes to try? Then check these out before you go;

Mini aubergine/eggplant ‘pizzas’ with Greek tomato topping

Greek-style potato rosti/fritters

Minced beef with courgettes/zucchini and hummus

Greek fried meatballs (Keftedes)

Courgette/zucchini fritters with tomato dipping sauce

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